By Michael Kunzelman
Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he named Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the best federal prosecutor in the national capital after abandoning his first choice for the position.
Pirro, who joined Fox News in 2006, co-host 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 the largest office of the country’s American lawyer at least temporarily after taking his appointment from the conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. for the post. Trump withdrew Martin from consideration after a key republican senator said that 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.”
Pirro is the last of a series of Trump appointments from Fox News – a list that includes defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who co -organized “Fox & Friends Weekend”.
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.
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California Daily Newspapers
