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Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.

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Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, at a news conference in Washington in April.
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Prosecutor in D.C. Moves to Dismiss More Reflecting Pool Cases

After revelations that a botched renovation, not vandalism, had caused the pool’s recent problems, the U.S. attorney’s office has dropped several prosecutions.

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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington in July.
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Timeline of Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation Saga

President Trump vowed to restore the Reflecting Pool, a defining feature of Washington. Months later, it is empty and closed to the public.

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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool sat empty and fenced in last month, after what prosecutors said was a “botched” renovation.
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