Jeanine Pirro, who has just left Fox News’ The five To become the American acting lawyer from Washington, DC, attended the Patriot Awards of Fox Nation 2024 on December 05, 2024.
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On the eve of President Trump’s inauguration, Fox News star Jeanine Pirro was held on stage during a party in his honor, his son Donald Trump Jr. by his side.
A Trump manager responsible for hiring raised Pirro’s arm in the air and said to the crowd“Very soon, we have a big announcement for another big hiring!”
Pirro put the words “no, no” and quickly published a statement through Fox that it “will not join the administration”, although she helped rally Trump fans during the event.
Trump said he was Name Pirro To be the acting American lawyer for Washington, DC, she replaced Ed Martin, whose confirmation of the Senate was in trouble with Republicans and Democrats.
In his announcement, Trump proudly quoted Pirro’s work for Fox. The fiveThat she co-organized, is “one of the most rated on television programs,” he noted.
(LR) Kash Patel, now director of the FBI; Donald Trump Jr.; Brendan Carr, now president of the Federal Communications Commission; Jeanine Pirro; Sergio Gor, now head of the White House presidential office office, and Alina Habba, now an acting American lawyer in New Jersey, attend the inaugural Turning Point USA on January 19, 2025 in Washington, DC
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Pirro is, by the count of the liberal surveillance group Media Matters, the 23rd fox personality Appointed in a high -ranking position in the Trump administration. She did not respond to the request for NPR comments.
Trump’s fox funnel
The Fox News funnel continues to pay the 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. Even network stars – many of whom advised the air president – he recognized that the phenomenon is an unprecedented circumstance. In Trump’s second administration – not even four months – there are more people with “Renard” on their curriculum vitae than during the four years of his first mandate.
An old Fox News personality serves as a national intelligence director. What about the administrator of the Medicare and Medicaid centers? Yeah. The deputy director of the FBI? Check. And don’t forget the former Trump National Security Advisor who was simply avoided to represent the United States at the United Nations. The ambassador to Israel is a former Fox News host. The same goes for the candidate to be the ambassador of Greece (who is also the former fiancée of Don Jr.).
The American prosecutor Pam Bondi was not a Fox News expert. But she made the guest host The five Several times when he was Florida Attorney General.
Two of the most important of these Fox-Trump administration officials are among his most telegenic: the Secretary of Defense and the former Fox & Friends Weekend Pete Hegseth Host and Transport and Elders Secretary Renard business The host Sean Duffy. The two men met their wives on the network. Duffy’s wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, is a host of the former HegSeth Fox News program; The influence that Jennifer Hegseth exerted during the brief mandate of the Secretary of Defense undesirable press careful examination.
It is not clear that the two former speaking leaders speak to each other, however: after the fatal plane accident involving a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Duffy complained that the Ministry of Defense did not share vital information. He filed his complaint – where others – Fox News.
“The DOD has promised radical transparency”, ” Duffy told her former colleague Laura Ingraham. “They should tell us who is qualified to release a helicopter from the Pentagon. I don’t know, but they have to tell us.”
Ingraham proposed to call Hegseth right there, raising his smartphone.
“You call Pete. Compose!” Duffy replied, adding that he needed information for security purposes. The press aid against the two secretaries of the cabinet did not return requests for NPR comments.
Pirro left lawyers for the studio decades ago
Pirro was a county judge and district prosecutor in the county of Westchester, the suburbs immediately north of New York, but it has been absent for almost two decades. She has a long -standing friendship with Trump, who has taken importance as a real estate developer in New York. Trump contributed to the unsuccessful effort of Pirro in 2006 to ask for the republican appointment to the American Senate against the Democrat at the time, Democrat Hillary Clinton. (Trump was Also a donor in Clinton.)
After an audience of syndicated reality audience at the national level on the CW network, Pirro was appointed by the president of Fox News, Roger Ailes, to be the crowd of his own weekend program on Fox in 2011.
She presented herself as hard with regard to the crime but has become a difficult worder more widely.
During Trump’s first term, Pirro called to imprison employees of the FBI and the Ministry of Justice, spoke on stage during a Trump campaign event and ran rhetorical interference for him during his dismissal trials.
In 2019, As reported by media issuesPirro admitted that he was suspended by Fox, who had reprimanded her for suggesting that the Hijab of representative Ilhan Omar, reflecting his observation of Muslim practices, suggested “Sharia membership”.
“This woman should never be on live television”
In early November 2020, just after Joe Biden beat Trump to win the White House, Pirro was part of a series of Fox News stars who amplified conspiracy theories – and later, pure and simple lies – on the rigged election.
A senior network in the network has removed its weekend program since the air on Saturday after the elections, saying that it could not trust that it would be responsible.
Two weeks later, the executive producer of Pirro pointed out that the introduction she proposed for her next program was “Rife with conspiracy theories and BS and yet another example why this woman should never be on live television”.
Pirro was one of the four Fox hosts pursued for defamation with the network, by the Dominion voting systems of the electoral machine. Fox paid $ 787.5 million to settle the case on the eve of the trial with jury, which would have focused on the declarations on Fox programs falsely giving credibility to false alternative allegations in 2020.
The network is again in court in an action in parallel deposited by Smartmatic, a voting technology company.
Pirro used his perch to attract attention to January 6
As NPR reportedAfter the elections, Pirro was one of the personalities of Fox News who continued to stimulate the importance of January 6, 2021 – the date on which the US Congress was to certify the victory of Biden.
On January 3, Jeanine Pirro compared those who gathered to protest at the foot of the American Capitol to American soldiers in the revolutionary war, adding: “On January 6 will tell us if there is one at the congress willing to fight for America.”
After Trump addressed the crowd, hundreds of demonstrators besieged the Capitol to try to block the certification of the elections.
The American lawyer’s office would continue more than 1,500 people for crimes related to the riot. More than 1,000 have pleaded guilty; 200 others were found guilty.
After taking up his duties, Trump gave mercy to all the insurrectionists on January 6 and appointed Martin as an American lawyer for Washington, DC
Martin had previously advanced false assertions on electoral fraud in the Swing States in 2020. He spoke during a noisy demonstration the day before the Capitol headquarters. And he represented several of the accused before the court.
This record has unplugged the prospects for the appointment of Martin. A key republican senator, Thom Tillis de Caroline du Nord, clearly said that he would vote against Martin.
Trump again found a prosecutor with similar views to direct the office.
And he listened to a favorite television channel to find it.
