Judge Pirro Exits The Five, Trump Makes Her Acting U-S Attorney

Jeanine Pirro

On Thursday, President Trump announced Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, shortly after withdrawing his initial nominee, Ed Martin, due to Senate Republican pressure. Pirro, 73, a former Westchester County, N.Y., Republican district attorney, was part of a lawsuit against Fox News for spreading false 2020 election claims.

 
Trump praised Pirro’s prosecutorial record, calling her a “powerful crusader for victims of crime” and “in a class by herself” on social media. 

A longtime ally, Pirro has defended Trump on Fox’s “The Five” and risked her reputation by echoing his election fraud claims. She left her lucrative TV role to take the position, leveraging her decades-long relationship with Trump to secure a key Justice Department role.

Pirro, a former host of “Justice with Judge Jeanine” on Fox News for ten years, is currently the co-host of The Five, also on Fox News.

JUST IN: Fox News’ @JudgeJeanine Piro will be leaving Fox to take up a role from President Trump as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia pic.twitter.com/0aWe1C55rL

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Pirro, who last held a law enforcement position two decades ago before unsuccessful political campaigns, including a 2006 Senate run against Hillary Clinton, fills the role as Martin’s 120-day interim term nears its May 20 expiration. 

Without a new appointee, the position would have defaulted to Washington’s Federal District Court judges.