Trump, in a posting on social media, acknowledged that there “may have been some contractor difficulty” in the installation of a new pool liner. “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool,” Trump added in his post. Pirro’s decision to drop the case is also a rare moment during Trump’s second term of an aide or political appointee openly defying him. Pirro in the court filing also blamed the Interior Department for providing “less than fulsome information at the outset of the case.” Starting immediately after the arraignment, our motions repeatedly proved that the administration was to blame for the Reflecting Pool failures, not Davey.”