Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump said Thursday that he named Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, former County prosecutor and elected judge, as the first federal prosecutor of the national capital after abandon your first choice for work.
Pirro, who joined Fox News in 2006, Cohost the program of the “The Five” network on evening evenings. She was elected judge before the New York Westchester County court in 1990 before spending three terms as an elected district prosecutor of the county.
Trump hugged Pirro to direct at least temporarily the largest office of the country’s American lawyer after having taken his appointment from the conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. for the post earlier on Thursday. In an article on Truth Social, Trump said that he called Pirro as an American acting prosecutor in Washington, DC, but did not indicate if he would name it for the position confirmed by the Senate on a more permanent basis.
“Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position and is considered one of the best district prosecutors in New York State history. She is in a class alone,” wrote Trump.
Trump withdrew Martin to consider after a Key Republican Senator said he could not support Martin for the post because of his defense of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“He’s a great person, and he didn’t get the support of the people I thought,” Trump told the journalists in the oval office on Thursday. He added later: “But we have someone else who will be great.”
Martin’s main role in Trump’s “Stop The Salle” movement was the demoralization of subordinates who spent four years pursuing more than 1,500 riot accused only to see the president forgive them en masse. Pirro has his own link with the theories of the baseless conspiracy of electoral fraud.
In 2021, the voting technology company Smartmatic USA Pursued Fox News, Pirro and others for spreading false claims that the company helped “steal” Trump’s presidential election. The defamation pursuit of the company, filed before a New York State court, asked for $ 2.7 billion from defendants.
Pirro is the last of a series of Trump appointments from Fox News – a list that includes the defense secretary Pete Hegsethwho co-organized “Fox & Friends Weekend”.
“Jeanine Pirro has been a wonderful addition to the five in the past three years and a long-standing beloved host from Fox News Media who has greatly contributed to our success throughout her 14-year term. We wish her all the best in her new role in Washington,” said a spokesperson for Fox News Media in a statement.
Martin has been an acting American lawyer for the Columbia district since the first week of Trump. But his hopes of keeping the work faded in the midst of questions about his qualifications and history. Martin had never been a prosecutor or tried a case before taking office in January.
Martin sparked a choir of criticism during his brief but tumultuous mandate in office. He drawn and demoted subordinate that worked on politically sensitive cases. He posted on social networks on the potential targets of surveys. And he forced the head of the office criminal division to resign after having ordered him to examine the award of a government contract during the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden.
Martin’s temporary appointment is expected to expire on May 20.
Pirro, a graduate of the Albany law faculty in 1975, has much more experience in the audience room than Martin. She led one of the country’s first domestic violence units in the office of a prosecutor.
After his mandates elected as a judge and district prosecutor, Pirro campaigned briefly in 2005 as a republican to dislodge the then a democrat of the Democrat at the time. Hillary Rodham Clinton Before announcing that she would present herself instead of the New York Attorney General. She lost this race to Andrew CuomoSon of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo.
Pirro has become an omnipresent television expert during Murder of OJ Simpsonoften appearing on CNN’s “Larry King Live”. During her stay on Fox News, she frequently interviewed Trump.
In the last minutes of his first mandate as president, Trump published a pardon at the former Pirro-Mari, Albert Pirro, who was sentenced in 2000 for conspiracy and tax evasion.
