Trump on Jeanine Pirro's future: "I haven't made a determination"

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President Trump said Tuesday night he hasn't decided whether to keep Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia after she dropped charges against David Hearn, a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. "I haven't made a determination," he told reporters when asked whether he would keep the former Fox News host in the position. After the president blamed vandalism for the reflecting pool's post-renovation troubles, Ms. Pirro charged Mr. Hearn, who had reached into the water to touch a piece of floating paint, with felony vandalism. "This is not only a priority for the president, but for myself," Ms. Pirro said when announcing the charges in early July. "We will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Hearn willfully destroyed property." But on Friday, Ms. Pirro filed a motion to dismiss the case, saying the damage was "the result of a botched installation and not vandalism" and that prosecutors had been misled by the Interior Dep