Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro As US Attorney for DC, Cementing Decades-Long Friendship With Trump

In 2018, Pirro penned the book “Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.” The Washington Post, in a review of 6 pro-Trump texts, called Pirro’s work “the most gushing.” In it, she railed against “Fake News,” “Crooked Hillary,” “LIAR Obama,” and “LIBERAL haters” while celebrating Trump’s “Kryptonite-proof aura of invincibility.”

When Trump ran again and lost in the 2020 cycle, Pirro was a vocal supporter of his unsubstantiated Big Lie that the election was stolen from him. She was later cited in a defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems for her role in spreading this disinformation. In December 2023, Fox reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion and was forced to acknowledge that Pirro, along with others at Fox, had peddled false claims about Dominion.

The support came the other way too, from Trump to Pirro.

In March of 2019, Pirro sparked outrage on her Fox show, Justice with Judge Jeanine, when she questioned if Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota could be loyal to the United States because she wears a hijab. “Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law,” Pirro asked her audience, “which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?” Fox News distanced itself from the remarks, but Pirro didn’t. The following week, her show didn’t air at its regular Saturday night slot.

“Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro,” Trump wrote in a post on then-Twitter. “The Radical Left Democrats, working closely with their beloved partner, the Fake News Media, is using every trick in the book to SILENCE a majority of our Country. They have all out campaigns against @FoxNews hosts who are doing too well.”

Jeanine Pirro sits aside Lara Trump during New York Fashion Week in 2018.

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In the beginning of 2021, as he was less than an hour away from leaving the White House, Trump announced he was pardoning Pirro’s ex-husband, who in 2000 was convicted at a trial in New York federal court “of conspiracy and tax evasion in connection with illegally deducting $1.2 million of personal expenses as write-offs for his business,” according to CNBC.

On Saturday, Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, celebrated Pirro’s confirmation.

“You may hear my Democrat colleagues criticize Ms. Pirro for some of her colorful remarks during her time as a TV personality,” he said, acknowledging that “yes, she has a larger-than-life personality.”

Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, was quick to denounce his Republican colleague’s decision, calling Pirro’s record “deeply troubling.”

“President Trump has been using the Justice Department to protect his allies and go after his enemies, and Ms. Pirro has proven to be a willing accomplice in weaponizing the justice system,” he said in a statement. “She is not fit to be the U.S. attorney for our nation’s capital, and I believe it’s a grave mistake my Republican colleagues voted to confirm her.”

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