Jeanine Pirro Latest Fox News Star to join the Trump administration: NPR

On the eve of President Trump's inauguration, Fox News Star Jeanine Pirro stood by her side at a party at a party in his honor, his son Donald Trump Jr.

A Trump official who is responsible for the attitude Increased pirros arm in the air and told the crowd“Very soon we will have a big announcement for another big attitude!”

Pirro mouthed the words “No, no” and soon gave a statement by Fox that “she did not join the administration”, even though she helped, gathering Trump's fans at the event.

On Thursday evening Trump said that he was Appointment of Pirro In order to be the reigning US lawyer for Washington, she replaces Ed Martin, whose confirmation of Senate was in trouble with both Republicans and Democrats.

In his announcement, Trump proudly quoted Pirros work for Fox. The fiveWhat she organized together is “one of the top -rated shows on television,” he noted.

Pirro is the number of media matters of the liberal Watchdog group Die 23. Fox personality Named into a high-ranking position in the Trump administration. She did not answer a comment on NPR's request.

The FOX-to-Trump funnel

The FOX News funnel always flows into the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Even the stars of the network – many of which have gotten out of the air – have recognized that the phenomenon is an unprecedented fact. In Trump's second government – not even four months old – there are more people with “fox” on their curriculum vitae than in all four years of his first term.

A former Fox News Personality serves as director of the national secret service. What about the administrator of Medicare and Medicaid's centers? Yes indeed. The deputy director of the FBI? Check. And do not forget the former Trump National Security Adviser, who has just been convicted of representation of the United States in the United Nations. The ambassador in Israel is a former Fox News moderator. This is the candidate of Greece's ambassador (who is also Don Jr.'s former fiance).

The US General Prosecutor Pam Bondi was not an expert at FOX News. But she has a guest host The five Several times at Florida's attorney general.

Two of the best known of these FOX Trump management officers are among the most telegen: Minister of Defense and former Fox & Friends weekend Host Pete Hegseth and transport secretary and former Fox business Host Sean Duffy. Both men met their women in the network. Duffy's wife Rachel Campos-Duffy is host in Hegseth's former Fox News Show. The influence that Jennifer Hegseth held during the short term of the defense minister has dragged on undesirable press Test.

However, it is not clear that the two former talking heads are talking to each other: After the fatal plane crash with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Duffy complained that the Ministry of Defense did not share any important information. He gave up his complaint – where else – Fox News.

“The DOD has promised radical transparency”, ” Duffy told his former colleague Laura Ingraham. “You should tell us who is qualified to take a helicopter out of the Pentagon. I don't know, but you have to tell us.”

Ingraham offered to call Hegseth right there and to raise her smartphone.

“You call Pete. Select!” Duffy replied and added that he needed the information for security purposes. The press helpers for the two cabinet secretaries do not return.

Pirro left the lawyer for the studio decades ago

Pirro was a district judge and district prosecutor in West Chestian County, the suburb of New York City, but she has not been in office for almost two decades. She has a long -term friendship with Trump, who gained importance as a real estate developer in New York City. Trump contributed to Pirros unsuccessful efforts from 2006 to apply for the nominated Republicans for the US Senate against the content of the Democrats Hillary Clinton. (Trump was Also a donor to Clinton.)

After a nationally syndicated reality court show in the CW network, Pirro was described by Fox News in 2011 as the moderator of her own weekend program for FOX.

She presented herself as hard in the crime, but became more generally a tough speaker.

During Trump's first term in office, Pirro claimed the FBI and the Ministry of Justice, spoke on stage at a Trump campaign and ran Rhetorical interference for him during his office.

In 2019, As media matters reportedPirro admitted to being suspended by Fox, which she had to prove that the hijab of Rep. Ilhan Omar, who reflected her compliance with Muslim practices, suggested a “compliance with the Sharia law”.

“This woman should never be on live television”

At the beginning of November 2020, shortly after Joe Biden had defeated Trump to win the White House, Pirro was part of a series of Fox messages stars who strengthened the conspiracy theories – and later, direct lies – over the election level.

A senior employee in the network tore out her weekend show on Saturday after the election and said that he could not trust that she would be responsible.

Two weeks later, Pirros marked the producer that the introduction she suggested for her next show “full of conspiracy theories and BS and another example of why this woman should never be on live television”.

Pirro was one of four Fox hosts that were sued together with the network together with the network by the election systems of the election machine. FOX paid 787.5 million US dollars to pay the case on the eve of the jury process, which would have focused on statements on Fox 'programs that false the wrong choice of elections in 2020.

The network is back in court in a lawsuit submitted by Smartmatic, a voting technology company.

Pirro used her perch to draw attention to January 6th

As NPR has reportedAfter the election, Pirro was one of the Fox News' personalities who have repeatedly ejected alarms about the importance of January 6, 2021 – the date on which the US Congress was supposed to certify the victory of Biden.

On January 3, Jeanine Pirro compared the meetings to protest with the American soldiers at the foot of the US capitol in the War of Independence.

After Trump spoke to the crowd, hundreds of demonstrators besieged to the Capitol to try to block the certification of the election.

The US public prosecutor would pursue more than 1,500 people for crime in connection with the uprising. More than 1,000 became guilty; Another 200 were found for guilty.

After taking office, Trump granted all the uprising on January 6th and appointed Martin as an incumbent US lawyer for Washington, DC

Martin had promoted the wrong claims about election fraud in Swing countries by 2020. On the day before the Capitol was besieged, he spoke to a rough protest. And he represented some of the accused in court.

In this record, Martin's prospects for the nomination were dissolved. An important Republican Senator, Thom Tillis by North Carolina, made it clear that he would vote against Martin.

Trump has once again found a like -minded prosecutor who heads the office.

And he adjusted to a favorite television channel to find it.