A judge on Thursday dismissed the criminal case accusing former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and permanently barred prosecutors from refiling the same charges.

District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman, in his order tossing the case “with prejudice,” cited the “exceptional circumstances” of the risk that President Donald Trump would pressure prosecutors to re-charge Hearn. A dismissal with prejudice prevents a case from being refiled.

Edelman noted that Trump, who ordered renovations to the Lincoln Memorial’s pool this year, angrily lashed out at U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro when she moved to dismiss the case after admitting damage to the landmark was caused by “flawed installation,” not from Hearn ripping up its liner.

Trump has repeatedly insisted that the damage to the Reflecting Pool resulted from intentional vandalism. He has continued to claim that vandals cut a gash hundreds of feet long in the pool’s protective lining.

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