{"id":184679,"date":"2025-08-03T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/senate-confirms-jeanine-pirro-as-us-attorney-for-dc-cementing-decades-long-friendship-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T18:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:07:15","slug":"senate-confirms-jeanine-pirro-as-us-attorney-for-dc-cementing-decades-long-friendship-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/senate-confirms-jeanine-pirro-as-us-attorney-for-dc-cementing-decades-long-friendship-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro As US Attorney for DC, Cementing Decades-Long Friendship With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In 2018, Pirro penned the book \u201cLiars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, in a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/book-party\/wp\/2018\/08\/15\/i-read-six-sycophantic-pro-trump-books-and-then-i-read-omarosa\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/book-party\/wp\/2018\/08\/15\/i-read-six-sycophantic-pro-trump-books-and-then-i-read-omarosa\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/book-party\/wp\/2018\/08\/15\/i-read-six-sycophantic-pro-trump-books-and-then-i-read-omarosa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> of 6 pro-Trump texts, called Pirro\u2019s work \u201cthe most gushing.\u201d In it, she railed against \u201cFake News,\u201d \u201cCrooked Hillary,\u201d \u201cLIAR Obama,\u201d and \u201cLIBERAL haters\u201d while celebrating Trump\u2019s \u201cKryptonite-proof aura of invincibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/04\/fox-dominion-settlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$787.5 million settlement<\/a> with Dominion and was forced to acknowledge that Pirro, along with others at Fox, had peddled false claims about Dominion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The support came the other way too, from Trump to Pirro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In March of 2019, Pirro sparked outrage on her Fox show, Justice with Judge Jeanine, when she questioned if Representative <strong>Ilhan Omar<\/strong> of Minnesota could be loyal to the United States because she wears a hijab. \u201cIs her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law,\u201d Pirro asked her audience, \u201cwhich in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?\u201d Fox News distanced itself from the remarks, but Pirro didn\u2019t. The following week, her show didn\u2019t air at its regular Saturday night slot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cBring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro,\u201d Trump wrote in a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1107269978678611969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1107269978678611969%7Ctwgr%5Ed3b23c1c52b16478f1be260683623a31a849f7b4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetrumparchive.com%2F%3Fsearchbox%3D22Bringback40JudgeJeanine22\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1107269978678611969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1107269978678611969%7Ctwgr%5Ed3b23c1c52b16478f1be260683623a31a849f7b4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetrumparchive.com%2F%3Fsearchbox%3D22Bringback40JudgeJeanine22&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1107269978678611969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1107269978678611969%7Ctwgr%5Ed3b23c1c52b16478f1be260683623a31a849f7b4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetrumparchive.com%2F%3Fsearchbox%3D22Bringback40JudgeJeanine22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on then-Twitter. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-fkZDUs kHRAYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eEeytc eRSvCP asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-zEXFr hdztbW responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cGZhnX jwYQWO AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jYrTxZ hvludv caption AssetEmbedCaption-fyuOdR iTyhpv asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionText-brNLzD deqABF ijcmYY ixLsrW caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>Jeanine Pirro sits aside Lara Trump during New York Fashion Week in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionCredit-eowWKH deqABF PwCDR kpuElq caption__credit\">John Lamparski\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In the beginning of 2021, as he was less than an hour away from leaving the White House, Trump announced he was pardoning Pirro\u2019s ex-husband, who in 2000 was convicted at a trial in New York federal court \u201cof conspiracy and tax evasion in connection with illegally deducting $1.2 million of personal expenses as write-offs for his business,\u201d <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/20\/trump-pardons-judge-jeanines-ex-husband-al-pirro.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/20\/trump-pardons-judge-jeanines-ex-husband-al-pirro.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/20\/trump-pardons-judge-jeanines-ex-husband-al-pirro.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to CNBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">On Saturday, Senator <strong>Chuck Grassley<\/strong>, a Republican from Iowa and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, celebrated Pirro\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cYou may hear my Democrat colleagues criticize Ms. Pirro for some of her colorful remarks during her time as a TV personality,\u201d he <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/03\/us\/politics\/senate-confirmation-jeanine-pirro-us-attorney.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/03\/us\/politics\/senate-confirmation-jeanine-pirro-us-attorney.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/03\/us\/politics\/senate-confirmation-jeanine-pirro-us-attorney.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>, acknowledging that \u201cyes, she has a larger-than-life personality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Senator <strong>Dick Durbin<\/strong> of Illinois, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, was quick to denounce his Republican colleague\u2019s decision, calling Pirro\u2019s record \u201cdeeply troubling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cPresident 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,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cShe is not fit to be the U.S. attorney for our nation\u2019s capital, and I believe it\u2019s a grave mistake my Republican colleagues voted to confirm her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/senate-confirms-jeanine-pirro-as-us-attorney-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, Pirro penned the book \u201cLiars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.\u201d The Washington Post, in a review of 6 pro-Trump texts, called Pirro\u2019s work \u201cthe most gushing.\u201d In it, she railed against \u201cFake News,\u201d \u201cCrooked Hillary,\u201d \u201cLIAR Obama,\u201d and \u201cLIBERAL haters\u201d while celebrating Trump\u2019s \u201cKryptonite-proof aura of invincibility.\u201d When Trump 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