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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was appointing Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, Washington’s American acting lawyer DC, after his first choice faced what seemed to be an insurmountable decline in the Republicans in Capitol Hill.
“I am pleased to announce that judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed acting lawyer from the United States for the Columbia district,” wrote Trump on Trum Social, praising her as the first woman elected to several previous positions and calling her “powerful crossing for victims of crimes”.
“She excelled in all ways,” said Trump, praising his television career. “In addition to her legal career, Jeanine previously welcomed her own Fox News program, justice with judge Jeanine, for ten years, and is currently co-host of the five, one of the best rated on television,” added Trump.
Pirro, a long-standing ally of Trump who was a regular presence in Mar-A-Lago before he even appeared in the presidency the first time, quickly won the praise of the GOP senator who had derailed the appointment of Ed Martin, Trump’s first choice for the role.
“Jeanine Pirro has had a long and a career length as a prosecutor and she is an excellent choice of @potus to serve as an American lawyer for DC!” The Senator of North Carolina Thom Tillis wrote on X.
Trump later announced that Martin will move to the Ministry of Justice as director of the Armament Working Group, Deputy Prosecutor General and Pardon Lawyer.
Pirro, which CNN declared earlier, had been studying for the role, did not appear on Thursday on “The Five” by Fox News. ABC News first reported that Trump was looking at Pirro for the post. CNN contacted Pirro.
“She will leave Fox to take this position and we obviously wish her good luck,” said Bret Baier, announcing the news to Fox viewers on Thursday evening.
On “The Five”, and previously in his own weekend show entitled “Justice with Judge Jeanine”, Pirro used his legal history to defend Bellicosely Trump and vire his criticism.
Some of Pirro’s programs have been included in the historic historic defamation trial of Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, which the right network has paid more than $ 787 million in 2023. Another voting company, Smartmatic, also led Fox News and appointed Pirro as a defendant in a case that is pending New York State. Fox News and Pirro deny reprehensible acts.
Pirro and Trump have had a friendly relationship for decades. One of his books, entitled “Don’t Lie to Me”, was dedicated to Trump.
Pirro’s sustainable fame and Fox fortune have been linked to Trump in the past eight years. And on the last day of Trump’s first mandate, Pirro put pressure to ensure that the outgoing president forgiven his ex-husband, who had been sentenced in 2000 for conspiracy and tax evasion. Pirro succeeded and forgiveness was Trump’s last official act in office.
Trump said early Thursday that he would soon announce a new person to replace Martin, his first controversial choice.
“He is a great person, and he did not get the support of the people I thought,” Trump told the journalists in the White House. “I can only lift this little phone so many times in a day, but we have someone else who will be great,” he added.
He echoes this praise later Thursday to announce Martin’s new roles.
“In these very important roles, Ed will ensure that we finally investigate the armament of our government under the Biden regime and that we did justice to his victims,” Trump wrote on X.
The chances of Martin of the Senate approval were quickly decreased, because the Republicans of the powerful judicial committee of the Senate had to advance his appointment this week to respect a critical deadline for confirmation before the expiration of his interim position on May 20.
Following Trump’s announcement that he would withdraw the appointment of Martin, Senator Lindsey Graham qualified the president’s decision “probably a good decision, given all concerns”.
The Southern Carolina Republican also suggested that he had an overview of the president’s next choice for the position, saying to CNN: “Stay listening. It’s going to be tall. ”
The president officially appointed Martin as his choice for the position in March, and his appointment process had been riddled with controversy in the weeks that followed.
Martin has updated his compulsory disclosure at the Congress detailing all his media appearances spent at least three times after his initial file has not pointed out the appearances he had made in recent years, including many on the far -right media and the Russian media.
He also had to respond to his praise of a riot of the Capitol who is an alleged Nazi sympathizer, despite his more recent denunciation. And he did not remember some of his most controversial declarations in response to a series of questions under oaths by members of the Senate Judicial Committee.
During his short term as an acting American lawyer, Martin drew attention to having referred to the largest office of federal prosecutors in the country as the Adocates of the president “Trumps” (sic) “and demonstrated main lawyers who worked on January 6, 2021, Capitol Riot Case.
Tillis, a voting of swing in the key to the key, derailed Martin’s appointment on Monday when he informed the White House that he would not support the president’s candidate for the concerns linked to Martin’s opinions on January 6, 2021, attacking the American Capitol.
Despite the backhand, the White House had insisted that it was behind Martin and Trump personally put pressure on the legislators on his behalf.
“Martin is President Trump’s favorite lawyer,” said a familiar source with his process of appointment at the time.
This story and the title have been updated with additional details.
Brian Stelter of CNN, Annie Grayer, Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.
