President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he calls the host Fox News Jeanine Pirro, a former prosecutor He abandoned his first selection to work.
Pirro, who joined Fox News in 2006, coholts the “The Five” program during evenings on weekdays. She was elected a judge in the Westchester Court in New York in 1990, before she had three terms as a elected District Prosecutor.
Trump tapped Pirro to at the very least temporarily lead the largest office in the country of the US prosecutor after he attracted the nomination of conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. for the position at the starting of Thursday. In a post about the truth, Trump said that he was called Pirro as a temporary US prosecutor in Washington, but didn’t indicate whether he would appoint her as confirmed by the Senate.
“Jeanine is extremely well qualified for this position and is considered one of the best district prosecutors in the history of New York. She is alone in class,” wrote Trump.
Trump withdrew Martin from consideration after Key republican senator He said that he couldn’t support Martin for his work because of the defense of the riots who stormed Kapitool on January 6, 2021.
“He is a great person and did not receive support from the people I was thinking about,” Trump told journalists at the oval office on Thursday. He later added: “But we have someone who will be great.”
Martin’s leading role in Trump’s “Stop The Crade” movement was the demoralization of subordinates who spent 4 years, chasing over 1,500 accused riots simply to see how the president pardoned them massively. Pirro has its own relationship with unfounded conspiracy theories of electoral fraud.
In 2021 USA SmartMatic He sued Fox News, Pirro and others for disseminating false claims that the company helped “steal” the presidential election in 2020 from Trump. A lawsuit for defamation of the company, submitted to the State Court in New York, directed $ 2.7 billion from the defendants.
Pirro is the latest from a series of Trump’s meetings from Fox News – letters covering the Secretary of Defense Pete HegeSethwhich co -organized the “Fox & Friends Weekend”.
“Jeanine Pirro has been a welcome addition to 5 in the last three years and a long-term beloved host in the media of Fox News, which has very much contributed to our success during her 14-year term.
Martin served as an American lawyer in the Columbia district from the first week of Trump’s office. But his hopes for maintaining work faded amongst the questions on his qualifications and origin. Martin never served as a prosecutor or tried the case before taking office in January.
Martin aroused the chorus of critics during his short but turbulent term in the office. He fired and degraded Subordinates who worked on politically sensitive matters. In social media he published about potential investigations. And forced the head of the office Criminal division hand over after directing it to look at the granting of a government agreement during the administration of the Democratic President Joe Biden.
Martin’s temporary meeting expires on May 20.
Pirro, a graduate of Albana Law School from 1975, has rather more experience in court than Martin. She led one of the first units of domestic violence in the prosecutor’s office.
After chosen conditions of the judge and the District Prosecutor, Pirro briefly conducted a campaign in 2005 as a republican to free herself in the democratic sleep at the moment. Hillary Rodham Clinton Before announcing that he’ll run for the Prosecutor General in New York as a substitute. Lost this race with Andrew CuomoSon of the former Governor of New York Mario Cuomo.
Pirro became a ubiquitous television expert during The murder process of Oj SimpsonOften appearing in “Larry King Live” CNN. During her stay in Fox News, she often interviewed Trump.
In the last minutes of his first term, as President Trump, he gave the pardon of his ex -husband Pirro, Albert Pirro, who was convicted in 2000 for a conspiracy and allegations of tax evasion.
This story was originally presented at fortune.com
