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04/03/2026
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- Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné @ Religion Dispatches: Meet the Top 24 Leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation in the U.S.
Get to know the under-the-radar leaders of a movement that helped organize January 6 and continues to pose a threat to American democracy.
- Matthew Chapman @ Raw Story: MAGA senator declares war on RFK as pro-lifers mutiny
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) fired off an angry letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, slamming the department's move to restore certain health grants to Planned Parenthood.
- Gordon Lubold and Courtney Kube @ NBC News: Hegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officers
The defense secretary’s efforts to block or delay promotions to general or admiral for some officers has raised concerns that he may be targeting them because of race, gender or affiliation with the Biden administration, sources say.
- Tommy Christopher @ Mediaite: Trump’s Stunning Declaration in Now-Deleted Video Isn’t Helped By ‘Context’
President Donald Trump’s stunning rant about cutting or eliminating massively popular programs (from a now-deleted White House event) went viral — and all the “context” in the world doesn’t make it any better.
- Ben Terris @ Intelligencer: Judge Jeanine’s Big Audition
Many in Trumpworld are circling the newly open job of attorney general. Jeanine Pirro may be the most recklessly loyal.
- Sophia Cai and Finya Swai @ Politico: Trump’s Online Brawler Is Trying to Keep MAGA Cool
Alex Bruesewitz went from volunteer online hatchet man for Donald Trump to his lead impresario. What will he do if pop culture decides MAGA is no longer cool?
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1 15 26 PIRRO LTR INTERVIEW SLOTKIN // MARK KELLY
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Jeanine Pirro isn’t going rogue. She’s the tip of the spear.
The former Fox host shows the authoritarian instincts Trump wants from federal prosecutors
Written by Matt Gertz (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/matt-gertz)
Published 01/15/26
White House officials are reportedly (https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/politics/jeanine-pirro-powell-investigation-frustration) experiencing “significant frustration” and “heaping blame” on U.S. attorney and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro over the firestorm surrounding her office’s criminal probe of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, which drew severe backlash (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-backlash-against-jerome-powell-probe) this week from Republican members of Congress and a broad spectrum of right-wing media. But it would be a mistake to treat Pirro’s nakedly pretextual bid to punish Powell and curtail the Fed’s independence as the actions of a rogue actor — she is a committed Trumpist operative carrying out President Donald Trump’s instructions to use state power to punish his enemies.
Trump has made clear (https://www.mediamatters.org/washington-post/blaming-left-trumps-weaponization-law-enforcement-means-pretending-his-first-term) that he wants federal prosecutors and investigators (and indeed, all administration officials) to forcefully wield their authority against people and entities who defy him. Pirro’s actions against Powell — whether she acted on orders from above or her own initiative — are fully in keeping with that assignment. Indeed, she has the job in the first place (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jeanine-pirros-fox-producer-thought-she-was-nuts-trump-just-named-her-dcs-top-prosecutor) in no small part because she was in the vanguard of Trumpist media figures calling for criminal charges against Trump’s foes during her Fox tenure.
Trump reportedly (https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-blasted-federal-prosecutors-at-white-house-event-calling-them-weak-c185412b) “criticized a group of U.S. attorneys at a White House event last week, calling them weak and complaining they weren’t moving fast enough to prosecute his favored targets.” Pirro, who was present at the event, is surely doing whatever she can to remain on his good list.
Pirro’s Powell probe followed years of Trump invective (https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/for-years-powell-avoided-fighting-trump-thats-over-27451d32?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_1) targeting the Fed chair and came amid his threats (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-threats-sue-replace-fed-chair-jerome-powell-rcna253649) of legal action, and the president has repeatedly (https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcdkafdrdk2r) defended (https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcdq5cwb3x2g) the probe (https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcd6w5lruf2l) this week. Pirro’s office is also reportedly investigating (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jason-crow-federal-prosecutors-video-refusing-illegal-military-orders-rcna254111) Democratic legislators who released a video urging service members and intelligence officers not to follow illegal orders, which Trump characterized (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/maga-hosts-cheer-after-trump-accuses-democrats-seditious-behavior-punishable-death) as “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
And she does not shrink from critics who say she is overseeing politicized investigations. On Tuesday night, Pirro went on Fox host and chief Trump propagandist (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/guide-sean-hannitys-role-trumps-chief-white-house-propagandist) Sean Hannity’s show (one of the president’s favorite watches) to not only defend her pursuit of Powell but to blast Republican legislators who have taken issue with it.
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From the January 13, 2026, edition of Fox News' Hannity
These actions are exactly what the president wants to see from his underlings.
Trump ran on “retribution” and assembled a team (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/dojs-weaponization-plan-b-provide-frothy-content-right-wing-conspiracy-theorists) eager to protect his interests and target his political foes, including loyalists like Pirro, Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/new-epstein-emails-mentioning-trump-dont-appear-interest-fox-news), Pardon Attorney Ed Martin, and FBI Director Kash Patel. Less than a year into his tenure, the Justice Department has pursued cases (https://abcnews.go.com/US/list-individuals-including-lisa-cook-targeted-trump-administration/story?id=124968309) at the president’s behest (https://www.mediamatters.org/cbs/trump-administrations-war-press-heating#paragraph--narrative-item--3471174) against a litany of Trump foils (https://www.mediamatters.org/washington-post/blaming-left-trumps-weaponization-law-enforcement-means-pretending-his-first-term), including former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Trump wants these cases brought, so more are coming. There’s a Trumpist U.S. attorney in Miami reportedly pursuing (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/trump-conspiracy-probe-subpoenas.html) an absurd but sprawling investigation into the right-wing fantasy (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tulsi-gabbards-russiagate-conspiracy-theory-cant-even-survive-softball-fox-news-interview) that former President Barack Obama led a “deep state” conspiracy against Trump; a newly-announced assistant attorney general post slated (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/jd-vance-justice-dept-fraud-post.html) to purportedly target fraud under the president’s direct oversight, which could be a vehicle to go after Democratic governors like Minnesota’s Tim Walz (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5673328-walz-drops-reelection-bid/) and California’s Gavin Newsom (https://nypost.com/2026/01/06/us-news/trump-claims-california-fraud-probe-has-begun-more-corrupt-than-minnesota/); and a broad, all-of-government effort (https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/trump-administration-positioning-upcoming-no-kings-protests-excuse-crushing-dissent) to criminalize progressive groups and their funders by smearing them as domestic terrorists.
But Trump needs prosecutors willing to do his dirty work; several have preferred to resign (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/02/edva-firings-resignations-comey/) or be fired (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/mcbride-halligan-us-attorney-trump.html) rather than pursue such weak and pretextual efforts. He surely knows from watching her on television over the years that in Pirro, he has a loyalist who won’t say no.
Pirro, a former judge and prosecutor who joined Fox after a failed 2006 U.S. Senate bid, emerged during the 2016 campaign as one of the most abjectly sycophantic Trump fanatics (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/insane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro) on TV — which made the president a regular viewer of her Saturday evening show. She spent much of his first presidency as a key cog in the right-wing media machine (https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/introducing-sean-hannity-extended-universe-foxs-anti-mueller-alternative-reality) that encouraged the president to target his political foes (https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/study-sean-hannity-spent-last-year-laying-groundwork-authoritarian-response-russia) through authoritarian tactics.
Pirro made headlines by demanding a “cleansing” of the FBI and DOJ, with the purportedly disloyal to be “taken out in handcuffs,” and spuriously accused (https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/hannity-says-mueller-indictment-vindicates-his-uranium-one-nonsense) Democrats like Hillary Clinton of various crimes. She lobbied for the ouster of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling for his dismissal on Fox (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/jeanine-pirro-calls-jeff-sessions-head-because-she-wants-his-job) and lashing out at his tenure to Trump (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/fox-going-love-trump-attorney-general-pick-william-barr) in the White House, over Sessions’ unwillingness to turn Foxy fantasies into criminal indictments. Her support (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-handling-jeanine-pirros-election-conspiracy-theories-reveals-full-extent-its) of Trumpian voter fraud conspiracy theories following the 2020 election led to her brief removal from Fox’s airwaves — and to her executive producer describing her as a “reckless maniac.”
The Fox host did show some concern about the prospect of prosecutorial overreach — when she perceived it as harming Trump’s interests. Pirro described (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/fox-co-host-trumps-34-guilty-verdicts-lawfare-far-too-soft-its-far-too-benign-warfare) Trump’s conviction by a New York jury as the result of “warfare” (because “lawfare is far too soft” a term) and suggested (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jeanine-pirro-we-are-country-was-born-revolution-i-hope-its-only-ballot-box) it could spark “a revolution” because it “was not a case that should've been brought.” She also suggested (https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-and-jesse-watters-suggests-fbi-wanted-engage-deadly-physical) that the FBI agents searching Mar-A-Lago may have “wanted” to “engage in deadly physical force,” and said (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-host-says-we-are-living-fascist-state-because-media-wont-cover-hunter-bidens) that the lack of media coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop meant that “we are living in a fascist state.”
Pirro’s “blind obedience to President Trump,” as Schiff put it (https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/statement-sen-schiff-opposes-jeanine-pirros-nomination-to-u-s-attorney-role-citing-blind-loyalty-to-trump-and-record-of-promoting-dangerous-conspiracies/), was readily observable when her nomination came up for a Senate vote in August — but Republicans voted in lockstep (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00492.htm#position) for her confirmation. Now Republican senators like Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) are saying that the Powell probe goes too far (https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5684582-murkowski-federal-reserve-probe-investigation/) — but as with Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) criticism (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/greg-gutfeld-once-denounced-donald-trumps-antiscience-point-view-vaccines-and-autism) of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s antivax moves, they’ve already yielded their strongest card by supporting the nomination in the first place.
The probes of Powell and Democratic legislators won’t be Pirro’s last investigations into the president’s foes. She seems more likely to end up a special counsel focused solely on such cases than drummed out of government for excessive partisanship. Her Fox catalog may hint at future targets, from Democratic governors (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-calls-arrest-governors-who-dont-comply-ice-its-time-take-side) who won’t comply with ICE to FBI and DOJ officials (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/hannity-guest-jeanine-pirro-claims-we-knew-fbi-interfered-polls-released-afterwards) purportedly engaged in “election interference” against the president to the undocumented immigrants (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-says-all-undocumented-immigrants-should-be-presumed-be-violent) she says should be “presum[ed]” as violent criminals.
None of this is to say that Pirro’s authoritarian pursuit of the president’s critics will succeed — her relevant legal experience (https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jeanine-pirro-trump-dc-attorney-fox-news-rcna205800) is decades old, and cases brought by her office have sputtered (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/failed-indictment-sandwich-guy-shows-limits-foxs-propaganda) before D.C. juries at an historic rate (https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-grand-jury-strikes-back). But she has the job because Trump knows that unlike more honorable federal prosecutors, she will keep trying.
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- ### The insane, toxic Trump adulation of Jeanine Pirro (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/insane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro)
03/08/18 9:29 AM EST
- ### The right-wing media backlash against the Jerome Powell probe (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-backlash-against-jerome-powell-probe)
01/13/26 1:30 PM EST
- ### Jeanine Pirro’s Fox producer thought she was “nuts.” Trump just named her DC’s top prosecutor. (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jeanine-pirros-fox-producer-thought-she-was-nuts-trump-just-named-her-dcs-top-prosecutor)
05/08/25
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Conservative National Review rips Trump for making DOJ a 'tool for partisan vengeance'
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Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News host turned Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) U.S. Attorney, appears to be quickly backtracking (https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-jeanine-pirro-panics-as-her-maga-revenge-plot-triggers-republican-fury/) in her office’s investigation of Jerome Powell. The esteemed Federal Reserve Chairman announced on Sunday that he is being investigated by the Trump Department of Justice, sending markets — and prominent Republicans — spinning.
Pirro, in a Monday night social media post, insisted that Powell has not been indicted, saying (https://x.com/USAttyPirro/status/2010886969518170452): “The word ‘indictment’ has come out of Mr. Powell’s mouth, no one else’s.”
According to The Daily Beast, Pirro issued her “ultra-defensive statement” after “major backlash” against her investigation into the 72-year-old Republican investment banker and lawyer who has steered the Federal Reserve since 2018, when President Donald Trump appointed him chairman.
The Daily Beast reported that Pirro’s investigation is “an inquiry that even Republican lawmakers have blasted as a revenge plot against one of the president’s adversaries that threatens the independence of America’s central bank.”
Suggesting that Pirro may have gone “rogue,” the Beast added that reports suggest “Pirro failed to obtain the necessary sign-off from her superiors at the Department of Justice before subpoenaing the Federal Reserve as part of her probe, according to Bloomberg.”
It appears that others were also left out of the loop in the unprecedented, high-profile investigation.
“Sources also told NBC News that Pirro’s office did not contact the White House or the Treasury Department before issuing the subpoenas, and that Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte—who spearheaded the push to investigate the Federal Reserve—was also allegedly left in the dark.”
“Investors are doubtful of her success,” Bloomberg News (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-13/jeanine-pirro-is-going-after-jerome-powell-heedless-of-backlash) added. “While U.S. assets initially sold off on news of the investigation in early trading Monday, stocks and bonds bounced back by the end of the day. That suggests traders think Republicans will find ways to dial back the probe given the critical importance investors assign to a Federal Reserve that’s free from political influence.”
On Sunday, Chairman Powell revealed that he is under a criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, an investigation stemming from his congressional testimony (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c801k7rkkd7o) on the renovation of Federal Reserve buildings. The Fed is fully self-funded (https://fortune.com/2025/07/26/federal-reserve-self-funding-headquarters-renovation-costs-taxpayer-dollars/), and that renovation is not funded by American taxpayers.
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One former federal prosecutor is calling on former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro – who President Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) appointed to be the Department of Justice's (DOJ) top prosecutor (https://www.alternet.org/jeanine-pirro-trump/) in Washington D.C. — to recuse herself from a high-profile case involving a January 6 defendant.
(https://youtu.be/r7STV3PDXqY), former DOJ white-collar prosecutor Ankush Khardori asserted that Pirro was incapable of handling the case involving Brian J. Cole, who is accused of leaving pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican Party's national offices the night before the deadly riot. CNN host Brianna Keilar pointed out that while Cole expressed disillusionment with both major political parties, he sympathized with Trump's debunked conspiracy theory that he only lose the 2020 election because it was supposedly conducted fraudulently.
"Cole said 'something just snapped' after watching everything get worse and that he wanted to do something to the parties because 'they were in charge.' That's according to the memo here," Keilar said. "Prosecutors say when Cole was asked why he placed the explosives at the RNC and DNC, he responded, 'I really don't like either party at this point.' How do you see prosecutors planning to use that as a motive in court?"
Khardori acknowledged that Cole's alleged motive "would be helpful in explaining to the jury why he [allegedly] did what he did." However, he added that "the prosecutors account of his motive are almost certainly the most Trump-friendly version of what happened" due to Pirro being the U.S. Attorney in D.C.
"The U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia, which is prosecuting this case, is Jeanine Pirro: A rabid and frequently unhinged Republican partisan and Trump loyalist who herself participated in the effort to mislead the public about Trump losing the 2020 election," Khardori said. "She was part of the problem here. Honestly. She should be recused because she can't possibly oversee a case that concerns this and be dispassionate because she was part of the problem."
"She hosted [2020 election denier] Sidney Powell on her show in November 2020, and that was one of the reasons that Fox had to pay out nearly $800 million in a defamation settlement with Dominion [Voting Systems]," he added. "So I would just urge everyone to be very careful about taking the government's representations on this point at face value, because they do almost everything they can to protect Trump these days."
Watch the segment below:
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National security analyst Marcy Wheeler noticed a strange edit in the court filing about the Jan. 6 bomber, Brian Cole, who confessed to planting pipe bombs at the Democratic and Republican Party headquarters.
Writing Monday (https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/jeanine-pirro-got-curiously-silent-about-what-brian-cole-did-on-december-14-2020/), Wheeler said that it might be a minor point, but the detention memo quotes Cole saying one thing, while changing the meaning of the confession later.
This month, Cole told the DOJ, "I really don't like either party at this point."
But a few paragraphs later, the DOJ changes the tense of the opinion he had in 2020.
"In his own words, the defendant did so because he did not'like either party,' but 'they were in charge' and thus were, in the defendant’s mind, an appropriate target for extreme acts of violence," the document says.
Wheeler noted the past tense is "consistent with him having been a Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) supporter and souring on him." It was only later thatthe DOJ turned it into (https://www.alternet.org/joyce-white-vance-pipe-bomb/) a "both-sides thing."
"By his own admission, the defendant committed these chilling acts because he was unhappy with the response of political leaders on both sides of the political aisle to questions raised about the results of the 2020 election, and 'something just snapped.' [my emphasis throughout]."
The documents make it clear that Cole was a 2020 election denier (https://www.alternet.org/jan-6-pipe-bomber-dnc-rnc/).
Wheeler commented, "It may well be that something about what Cole said makes it fair to put his animosity to both parties back in time to 2020, but that’s not the tense he used."
Her most "stunning" observation, she said, is that the detention affidavit throws out what seems like an important detail from the arrest affidavit. Cole was on Capitol Hill on Dec. 14, 2020. Starting on Dec. 15, 2020, he started resetting his phone to "factory settings."
"The alleged pipe bomber started exercising operational security the day after that trip to Capitol Hill, the scene of his alleged crime," Wheeler said, quoting the details from the affidavit.
It details "a Samsung cellular device" taken from Cole when he was arrested. "... between December 2020 and December 2025, the device recorded 943 events identified as a 'factory reset' or 'wipe,' including a 'wipe' event approximately three hours before the defendant’s arrest on December 4, 2025."
The first reset happened on Dec. 15, 2020, the day after his trip to Capitol Hill. The second was a month later, on July 15, 2022. At that point, Cole began resetting his phone weekly.
The trip to Washington D.C. on Dec. 14 piqued Wheeler's interest, but she noticed that suddenly, there's no mention of the the visit.
"Jeanine Pirro doesn’t want to talk about the trip he made there at all," speculated Wheeler.
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'Throw the book at people': Judges and lawyers say Jeanine Pirro has 'no credibility left' (https://www.alternet.org/pirro-doj-trump/)
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In an article for Salon published (https://www.salon.com/2025/08/31/fox-news-stars-jump-to-the-trump-administration-is-backfiring/)Sunday, writer Sophia Tesfaye argued that the appointment of Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., the "face of President Donald Trump’s new law‑and‑order regime," is backfiring.
The article noted that so far, her time in office has been marked by grandstanding and symbolic arrests — tactics that courts have repeatedly dismantled.
Tesfaye asserted that the federal takeover of D.C.’s law enforcement apparatus "is little more than theater with essentially no legal foundation." She added that Pirro, plucked from Fox News for her loyalty and ratings, has prioritized aggressive messaging over prosecutorial substance.
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The article further highlighted that Pirro’s team “whiffed on three cases alleging defendants assaulted federal agents," and the New York Times has pointed to her office’s struggle to match her bombastic rhetoric given the exodus of career-level prosecutors and staff.
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Tefaye also noted that Pirro resorted to enlisting military lawyers to backfill massive staffing shortages, with 90 prosecutors and 60 support staff reportedly missing. This has overwhelmed the D.C. federal courts, used to six new cases per week, now inundated with six or more per day, pushing trial dates into 2027 and forcing judges to hasten hearings under pressure.
Tesfaye also spotlighted the infamous “Subway sandwich slinger” case: Sean Charles Dunn, who threw a sandwich at an agent during a protest, became the target of a felony assault charge. Pirro’s office clearly aimed for dramatic impact—but the grand jury refused to indict not once, but four times in a single month, reducing the case to a misdemeanor.
"The sandwich case was meant to be a show of strength; instead, it is serving as a symbol of the administration’s superficial posturing," Tesfaye wrote.
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She added: "With Trump’s installation of shock troops like Pirro to carry out his ideological retribution under the banner of justice, judges and juries are now functioning as the final guardrails in the near-total absence of resistance from the Republican-led legislative branch. Thankfully, over 200 court orders have blocked Trump’s policies, including at least 120 rulings within the first 100 days alone."
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Before Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) appointed Fox News entertainer Jeanine Pirro U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, NPR reports she (https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/nx-s1-5526879/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-reckless-maniac) already had a reputation with her old bosses at Fox.
"Insane," is how one Fox corporate board member described one of her public statements, according to NPR.
"Reckless maniac," is how a Fox News executive put it.
“I don't trust her to be responsible," another executive admitted.
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Still another company head was horrified at Pirro’s “tendency to find random conspiracy theories on weird internet sites."
NPR reports these opinions were lifted from legal documents made public last month in a defamation lawsuit brought by Smartmatic, a voting technology company, against Fox News. Pirro is named as a defendant. The critiques circulated when Pirro was at the top of her purported game at Fox as an explosive entertainer fond of big, blaring statements and claims, similar to the breathless threats and “federal assault” prosecution Pirro lobbed at a man who hurled a hoagie (https://www.alternet.org/jeanine-pirro-mocked/) at a U.S. border agent in Washington, D.C.
“He thought it was funny. Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today because we charged him with a felony assault on a police officer, and we’re going to back the police to the hilt. So, there — stick your subway sandwich somewhere else,” Pirro shouted into her office camera (https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/stick-your-subway-sandwich-jeanine-pirro-comes-down-hard-on-hoagie-hucking-bro/).
A federal grand jury did not agree (https://www.alternet.org/jeanine-pirro-grand-jury/), handing Pirro her second defeat (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/fbi-agent-assault-dc.html) at indicting D.C. residents protesting President Donald Trump’s flood of federal agents on local streets.
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“The U.S. attorney can try to concoct crimes to quiet the people, but in our criminal justice system, the citizens have the last word,” said defense attorneys for Sidney Lori Reid (https://archive.is/20250825230216/https:/www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/fbi-agent-assault-dc.html#selection-675.308-675.324), who Pirro tried to prosecute allegedly placing herself between ICE agents and someone they were detaining. “We are anxious to present the misdemeanor case to a jury and to quickly clear Ms. Reid’s name.”
NPR reports former Trump senior official Sarah Isgur saying the jury was still out on whether Pirro can be an effective prosecutor.
"At some point in the near future, she's going to be really tested — like all U.S. attorneys with these kinds of big posts are," said Isgur. "And we'll find out whether those comments were prescient or whether she really does understand the difference between the two hats."
Read the full NPR report at this link (https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/nx-s1-5526879/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-reckless-maniac).
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CNN reported Wednesday (https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/politics/dc-courts-overwhelmed-trump-crackdown-deluge-cases) that now led by former Fox News anchor Jeanine Pirro, the District’s U.S. Attorney’s Office has instructed prosecutors to bring the most serious charges available, even elevating minor offenses to more significant ones (https://www.alternet.org/charles-dunn-pirro-doj/).
Defense attorneys across the city argue that this is turning relatively small infractions into major legal battles.
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A individual at DC federal public defender's office, who was not identified, told CNN: “It has been a nightmare."
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At the same time, prosecutors are pushing to keep more defendants behind bars before trial, a sharp shift from the city’s traditional approach of releasing those accused of nonviolent or low-level crimes unless they pose a threat or are convicted.
This pivot has created immense pressure on DC’s criminal justice system, endangering the already fragile balance across its jails, federal courts, and the local Superior Court, which currently has 13 judicial vacancies waiting to be filled by the president, owing to the District’s unique federal status.
AJ Kramer, the federal public defender for DC, told CNN: “It’s a real mess right now."
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In a recent detention hearing, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui made clear how badly the system is buckling, per the report.
He chastised the Department of Corrections for detaining a woman for nearly 24 hours “despite his order releasing her”, highlighting that the city’s facilities are not keeping pace with the volume of intake.
“The systems in place are not keeping up with the volume coming in,” he noted in another appearance, conveying how this crackdown is amplifying existing inefficiencies in the DC jail.
The report noted that this torrent of cases has also led to heightened scrutiny from both judges and juries.
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One federal matter this month involving an altercation between an FBI agent, an immigration officer, and a detainee failed to win a grand jury indictment not once but three times, an extremely rare outcome.
Pirro candidly stated at a press conference: “The burden is on us to prove these cases,” then added, “Sometimes a jury will buy it and sometimes they won’t. So be it. That’s the way the process works.”
Another striking example involves a DC man, Sean Dunn, who faces a felony assault charge (https://www.alternet.org/jeanine-pirro-mocked/) after allegedly throwing a sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer. Prosecutors hoped to secure an indictment to proceed on the felony, but the grand jury refused, though the office still has the option to try again in the coming days.
The aggressive federal posture endorsed by President Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) and executed by Pirro’s team is flooding DC’s courts with elevated charges and pretrial detentions. But as the system strains under the weight, repeated grand jury setbacks mean that increased prosecution may be reaching the limits of what evidence and resources can sustain. This development has revealed deep vulnerabilities in the capital’s criminal justice framework.
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Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host President Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) chose as a U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, drew a great deal of criticism when she stridently vowed to make sure (https://nypost.com/2025/08/13/us-news/dc-man-sean-charles-dunn-charged-with-felony-assault-after-hitting-federal-agent-with-subway-sandwich/) Charles Sean Dunn — a former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) paralegal — was aggressively prosecuted for throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal officer in Washington, D.C. "Assault a law enforcement officer, and you’ll be prosecuted," Pirro declared (https://x.com/JudgeJeanine/status/1955704405161808286).
Pirro, critics argued, was being a hypocrite (https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/man-throws-subway-sandwich-charges-trump-dc-crime-rcna224975) in light of the fact that Trump pardoned rioters who violently attacked police officers when they invaded the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.
Pirro's critics also said that she didn't have a substantial case. And on Wednesday morning, August 27, the New York Times reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) that DOJ prosecutors "were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against" Dunn.
READ MORE:'He's in there': MAGA congressman caught on hot mic saying Trump is in Epstein files (https://www.alternet.org/maga-congressman-trump-epstein/)
According to NY Times reporters y Alan Feuer, Devlin Barrett and William K. Rashbaum, "The rejection by grand jurors was particularly noteworthy given the attention paid to the case. Video of the episode went viral on social media, senior officials talked about the case, and the (Trump) Administration posted footage of a large group of heavily armed law enforcement officers going to the apartment of the man, Sean C. Dunn, to arrest him."
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The news about Dunn, dubbed "Sandwich Guy" in media reports, is drawing a lot of discussion on X, formerly Twitter.
The Atlantic's Shane Harris tweeted (https://x.com/shaneharris/status/1960693909647917550), "Turns out you can't indict a ham sandwich."
Content creator Prabhas Sankar commented (https://x.com/Prabhas_Jai2718/status/1960705152396251139), "The unusual case, which initially drew attention for its almost comical circumstances,
highlights the challenges prosecutors face when trying to prove intent and threat in incidents that may appear more trivial than dangerous. While assaulting a federal officer is generally treated as a serious offense, the grand jury's apparent reluctance to indict suggests that the evidence did not rise to the level of a prosecutable crime in their view. Legal analysts note that such cases often hinge on context — whether the act was seen as a genuine threat to safety or simply a rash, impulsive gesture without harmful intent."
READ MORE: 'Corrupt and just wrong': Michael Steele erupts over 'dumbest' moment of Trump meeting (https://www.alternet.org/michael-steele-trump-meeting/)
X user Sarah Majdov posted (https://x.com/SarahMajdov/status/1960701693240480070), "It sounds like straight from the Onion."
Another X user, Jason Frakk, wrote (https://x.com/FrakkJason47117/status/1960702905863836038), "A federal agent, tactical gear, a sandwich, and a SUBWAY. The only thing indicted here is the absurdity of it all. Guess some D.C. cases just don't have the filling to stick."
X user Errol Meade posted video of Pirro and remarked (https://x.com/ErrolInvests/status/1960702727702323207), "Dumbest possible people running America."
Meanwhile, on Bluesky, writer Ian Boudreau said of Pirro (https://bsky.app/profile/ianboudreau.com/post/3lxf6n4j2js2r), "The prosecutor who failed to get a grand jury to indict the sandwich guy has to be experiencing rock bottom right now
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Eight damning new revelations about Fox’s 2020 election lies from the Smartmatic filings
Written by Matt Gertz (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/matt-gertz)
Published 08/21/25
Newly available filings in the election technology company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News provide fresh insights into the network’s egregious and irresponsible promotion of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies — four and a half years after Fox’s propaganda helped trigger a violent insurrection in which enraged Trumpists sacked the U.S. Capitol.
The documents (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=ihdnQtVbPEg_PLUS_szA3Px1XnQ&system=prod), which support (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ&system=prod) Smartmatic’s motion for summary judgment and were originally filed in April, were first reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/19/jeanine-pirro-trump-republicans-fox/) by The Washington Post after a judicial hearing officer removed many of the redactions.
The documents feature numerous previously unseen text messages and internal communications between Fox hosts, executives, producers, and other employees as Trump attempted to use false claims about the 2020 election to subvert the results of the election he lost and remain in power.
Fox’s internal machinations during this period were previously made public through the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, another election technology company which accused the network of defamation (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/dominion-voting-systems-fox-news-defamation-lawsuit-primer) over its post-election coverage. Fox ultimately settled that suit as it went to trial (https://www.mediamatters.org/foxdominion-lawsuit/dominion-saga-exposed-fox-propaganda-outlet-its-always-been-accountability) in 2023 for a record $787.5 million.
The contours of Smartmatic’s story are broadly similar to — if no less damning than — the one Dominion told: Fox hosts and executives knew (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/they-knew-it-was-lie-behind-scenes-happenings-fox-while-network-pushed-false-claims-about) that Trump lost the 2020 election and that the claims of widespread election fraud he and his supporters pushed were false, but they nonetheless pivoted in the days following the election to promote such conspiracy theories (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-has-cast-doubt-or-pushed-conspiracy-theories-about-election-results-nearly-600) -– including falsehoods about the company (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-many-election-lies-about-smartmatic) — because they were taking heat from viewers overcalling Arizona (https://www.mediamatters.org/bret-baier/bret-baier-wants-move-past-dominion-revelations-they-should-follow-him-rest-his-career) for Joe Biden and feared losing market share (https://www.mediamatters.org/2020-election-lawsuits/fox-news-lied-about-dominion-and-2020-election-compete-far-right-newsmax) to more aggressive competitors like Newsmax
But the Smartmatic filings provide new evidence that helps flesh out the tale of Fox’s cowardice and corruption.
Maria Bartiromo leveraged her status at Fox to try to overturn the election: “I am news”
Maria Bartiromo was once a respected business reporter (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/maria-bartiromo-fox-news-trump/2020/12/22/35520a90-3fb1-11eb-8db8-395dedaaa036_story.html), but reinvented herself as a hardcore MAGA propagandist during the first Trump administration. But even as she went further (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/maria-bartiromos-fox-shows-pushed-indicted-fbi-informants-story-more-200-times-2023) and further (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-business/maria-bartiromos-wild-and-kind-racist-election-conspiracy-theory-collapses-immediately) down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole, Bartiromo has retained her position on Fox’s “news” side, anchoring Fox Business’ three-hour weekday program Mornings with Maria as well as the weekend show Sunday Morning Futures,which is simulcast on Fox News.
Smartmatic’s filings show Bartiromo leveraged that position as she tried to get Sidney Powell, the MAGA attorney notorious for her far-fetched election claims (https://www.mediamatters.org/maria-bartiromo/maria-bartiromo-one-fox-news-worst-conspiracy-theorists-she-may-soon-get-promotion#::text=Bartiromo%20was%20a%20key%20promoter%20of%20Rudy%20Giuliani%20and%20Sidney%20Powell%E2%80%99s%20conspiracy%20theories%20about%20voting%20machines), to come on her Fox Business show in mid-November 2020. (Bartiromo hosted (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/maria-bartiromos-source-election-conspiracy-theories-wind-tells-me-im-ghost-i-dont-believe) Powell on her Fox News show earlier that month to push election lies (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3912001) after Powell sent her an email featuring fraud hypotheses from someone who also claimed that “the Wind tells me I’m a ghost, but I don’t believe it.”)
“Sidney we must keep you out there,” Bartiromo wrote (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=106) in a November 17, 2020, Signal message.
She contrasted her own role at the network with that of then-Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, another avid promoter of election fraud lies, and suggested she could provide more helpful treatment, saying, “Dobbs is considered very opinionated. I am news. How about Friday?”
Bartiromo later suggested to Powell that her own goal was to reverse the election results and keep Trump in power. “I am very worried,” she wrote. “Please please please overturn this. Bring the evidence. I know you can.”
Bartiromo still has both of her “news” shows.
Jeanine Pirro explicitly declared her loyalty to Trump and the GOP
The filings show (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=102) then-Fox host Jeanine Pirro texted Ronna McDaniel, then the chair of the Republican National Committee, the following on September 21, 2020: “I work so hard for the party across the country… I’m the # 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President and the party.”
It’s not precisely news (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/insane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro) that Pirro viewed her work at the network as an extension of Trump’s campaign — it would in fact have been difficult to come away with a different conclusion after watching her commentary over the years.
Nonetheless, it’s helpful to have that confirmed explicitly in writing.
CEO Suzanne Scott ordered promotion of Fox prime-timers in “news” hours
In mid-November 2020, I reported that Fox appeared to be trying to stave off its competitors by heavily promoting its prime-time “opinion” stars during its purported “news” hours. This campaign included the “news” programs running ads (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-promo-hypes-opinion-hosts-casting-doubt-election-results) hyping the hosts casting doubt on the election results, airing on-screen bugs (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-desperate-push-preserve-viewers-exposes-hollowness-its-news-side) promoting their shows, and playing lengthy clips (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-becoming-foxs-news-side-assignment-editor) from the “opinion” shows.
The Smartmatic filings reveal (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=49) that Fox CEO Suzanne Scott apparently ordered this breach of the purported wall the network maintained existed between its “news” and opinion divisions. She emailed top Fox executives on November 9, 2020, demanding that the “news” hours increase its promotion of “opinion” talent like Pirro and the prime-time hosts. She wrote (emphasis added):
On the website – its 345p and I still dont see our opinion folks being promoted on .com – I’m seeing a ton of FOX nation – need that changed asap for the next few weeks. Same for FOX News channel – not seeing nearly enough promotion of primetime talent other than the little bug. And we should get a Pirro promo in as well. This is something I called around about first thing this morning. I’m traveling next four days and expect this to be handled well.
Sean Hannity hosted Rudy Giuliani despite complaining he was “insane”: “I’m not redpill78”
Sean Hannity went from considering Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani an “insane” person he could not conceive of hosting to welcoming him back onto his program in 10 days.
The Fox host functioned as an extension (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/guide-sean-hannitys-role-trumps-chief-white-house-propagandist) of Trump’s White House and regularly hosted (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/leaked-memo-shows-fox-knew-hannitys-show-pushed-ukraine-disinformation-did-nothing) Giuliani to spin Ukraine conspiracy theories that Fox’s research team said were not credible (https://www.mediamatters.org/trump-impeachment-inquiry/ukraine-misinformers-named-leaked-fox-memo-have-made-hundreds-appearances). But the former New York City mayor turned Trump lawyer was apparently going too far (https://www.mediamatters.org/rudy-giuliani/human-hand-grenade-year-rudy-giuliani#::text=the%20hotel%20room.-,November,-The%20American%20right%E2%80%99s) for even Hannity in the early days of Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the 2020 election results.
The filings show Hannity texted (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=260) associates on November 10, 2020, to say of Giuliani: “He is going nuts. We canceled the guy. Read what’s wrong…. He’s insane.” He told producers the following day that Giuliani is “acting like an insane person. I’m not redpill78.” (According to the Smartmatic filing, “Hannity testified that his reference to ‘redpill78’” — a streaming program (https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/anti-vax-influencers-are-using-qanon-shows-spread-misinformation-about-covid) associated (https://www.mediamatters.org/google/despite-cracking-down-qanon-youtube-continues-profit-content-supporting-conspiracy-theory) with the QAnon conspiracy theory (https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/how-true-vote-cultivated-relationships-qanon-influencers-target) — “indicated that he was skeptical” of Giuliani.)
On November 19, 2020, Hannity interviewed Giuliani about his election fraud claims.
Hannity subsequently testified that he had hosted Giuliani because he was a “top newsmaker.”
He retains his Fox prime-time show.
Jeanine Pirro’s path back into the Murdoch network’s good graces
The Dominion filings show (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-handling-jeanine-pirros-election-conspiracy-theories-reveals-full-extent-its) that a Fox executive took Pirro off the air the weekend after Election Day, preempting her November 7, 2020, broadcast because he did not “trust her to be responsible.” They also reveal that after Pirro’s show returned the following weekend, her executive producer struggled in vain to prevent her from promoting what he termed her election “conspiracy theories.”
Those filings, however, do not fully explain why Pirro returned to the air in the first place. Smartmatic’s filings fill in that gap: They show that Pirro’s removal sparked a backlash (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=43) from the MAGA faithful that Fox’s CEO, at Fox prime-time star Sean Hannity’s urging, sought to quell by increasing Pirro’s profile and allowing her to comment without “being censored.”
According to the filings, Hannity told Pirro via text message on November 10, 2020, that he had already reached out (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=49) to Scott to talk about issues including Pirro’s treatment by the network. When Pirro vented to her colleague, “I’M TIRED OF THE CENSORSHIP AND I’M EMBARRASSED BY HOW THEY CALLED THIS ELECTION,” he further explained that he was “looking for changes” including “to leave u alone.”
Hannity may have already been getting results: Scott’s email the previous day ordering more promotion of Fox’s opinion hosts included Pirro along with the prime-time hosts. A few days later, promos for Pirro’s upcoming show were running (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=52) and being distributed through right-wing channels.
A flurry of communications (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=53) about Pirro’s show followed between Scott and Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch and between Scott and Fox executive vice president of primetime programming Meade Cooper the day before Pirro’s next broadcast.
“Has anyone spoken to Judge Jeanine before her show this weekend?” Murdoch asked Scott. “It would be good if she corrects the record and clears up the schedule change last week.”
Scott passed the request on to Cooper, who replied that they weren’t planning to make a statement about that and added, “David Clark is reviewing all scripts and working with her on her open. She is very into not being censored but he is working with her closely on it.”
“We don’t want to censor her,” Scott replied.
According to the filing, Scott “had a conversation with Pirro related to coverage of election fraud claims before Pirro’s November 14 show.” The same day, when Hannity texted her to crow about all the promos she was getting, Pirro replied, “I gave 3 demands. New producer. No censorship. 9 pretapes. Suzanne [Scott] promised me NOT overruled by Meade cooper.”
The newly unleashed Pirro used the opportunity the cowed Fox executive team gave her to promote election conspiracy theories that ultimately proved very expensive for Fox.
But it’s hard to get disciplined at Fox (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jeanine-pirros-fox-producer-thought-she-was-nuts-trump-just-named-her-dcs-top-prosecutor) for being too supportive of Trump — she was subsequently promoted to the weekday panel show The Five and recently left Fox to become U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Fox exec: “It’s not the talents call” to cut away from White House press conference pushing election lies
Scott’s handling of Pirro shows how willing Fox was to bend over backward to provide editorial independence to its conspiratorial opinion hosts. But “news-side” personalities at the network who tried to shut down such claims weren’t so lucky.
The Smartmatic filings show top Fox executives expressing dismay (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=48) after anchor Neil Cavuto cut away (https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/11/09/fox-cuts-coverage-kayleigh-mcenany-trump-campaign-press-conference/6228124002/) from a November 9, 2020, White House press conference featuring press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and told viewers, “She’s charging the other side is welcoming fraud and welcoming illegal voting. Unless she has more details to back that up, I can't in good countenance continue showing you this."
Tom Lowell, Fox’s vice president and managing editor of news, subsequently told other top Fox executives that anchors like Cavuto should not have the authority to cut away from live events, writing (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=51): “Needs to be a chain of command here considering the environment we are in. It’s not the talents call and [t]he EP [Executive Producer] needs approval from you [Mitchell] or Jay [Wallace] in the handling of pressers.”
Fox’s CEO on airing election fraud “witnesses” live: “This is BUSINESS”
When GOP state legislators put on (https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/rudy-giuliani-pennsylvania-gop-legislators-allege-disputed-election-irregularities-during-senate-committee-hearing/) a series of sham election fraud “hearings” (https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/12/04/fact-checking-rudy-giulianis-grandiose-georgia-election-fraud-claim) in late November and early December 2020, which featured Trump’s legal team (https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2020/11/rudy-giuliani-trump-pennsylvania-election-senate-hearing/) and discredited “witnesses” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/03/melissa-carone-michigan-trump-giuliani-election/) with unverified or debunked claims, Trump praised (https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1334205905089474564) Fox’s right-wing competitors (https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1334613299875487754) for airing (https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1334209470117924867) the hearings live — and criticized (https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1334205396479840256) Fox for failing to do so.
Scott responded (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=57) to the pressure by urging her network to start taking such hearings live in a December 2, 2020, email to Lowell. She suggested that the “witness testimony” at the events constituted the “evidence that the news division has been saying doesn’t exist,” and concluded, “This is BUSINESS. RIGHT NOW BAD BUSINESS.” From her email:
The entire impeachment was about one anonymous hearsay whistleblower. We ran the Schiff Nadler show wall to wall. If we wanted to send a strong message to the audience, run the witness testimony. That’s called evidence that the news division has been saying doesn’t exist. Now will the results ever change. Odds are next to zero. This is BUSINESS. RIGHT NOW BAD BUSINESS.
Lowell admitted that the network had featured witness testimony in stories about the hearings without fact-checking them but warned Scott that airing the events live was not a good news practice.
“It is one thing for us to give a platform to the Presidents Attorneys and surrogates, or people like this guy on with Sean [Hannity] right now who signed an affidavit, but we need to be skeptical of some of these supporters who just wander in to make statements about things they think they saw,” he wrote in an email to Scott.
Jesse Watters was told not to push election fraud lies, did it anyway
The Smartmatic filings provide new details about what Fox’s Jesse Watters was told and what he did during this period, while he was the host of the weekend evening program Watters’ World.
Watters was explicitly warned (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=44) not to promote election fraud claims immediately after the 2020 election, according to the filings.
“On November 6, Watters texted Fox host Pete Hegseth, ‘By the way, did you get the memo about not saying fraud?’” the filing states.
Watters testified that this was a reference to instructions relayed by his producer, Megan Albano. In a text message the same day, Albano told Watters, “If we call the race, you cannot, under any circumstances, cast doubt on” the election because “the powers that be are not having any of it.”
This message did not stick, the filing shows (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=88): “On November 21, 2020, an original television broadcast of Watters’ World aired at 8:00 p.m. on Fox News. Dobbs appeared as a guest, discussing a ‘cyber-attack’ using voting machines to steal the 2020 election, and Watters presented an ‘investigation’ into Dominion and Smartmatic.”
The filing further states (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=olzwemuCPi6hRO6vLFAOVQ==&system=prod#page=73) that in a text to The Five co-host Greg Gutfeld, Watters wrote: “Think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL.”
Fox has since given Watters two promotions — he gained (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/timeline-decimation-foxs-news-side#::text=of%20his%20term.-,January,-%3A%20Fox%20gives%20Jesse) his own weekday evening show in January 2022, and that program took over (https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/fox-news-changes-weekday-primetime-lineup-gives-jesse-watters-pivotal-8-pm-timeslot/) the network’s “pivotal” 8 p.m. timeslot in June 2023.
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Newly released documents show that when she was a Fox News host, Jeanine Pirro – who is now the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — bragged behind the scenes (https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5461314-jeanine-pirro-trump-hannity-texts/) about helping President Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) to then-Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel. But one legal expert is pointing out one key detail that has so far been under-reported.
"I worked so hard for the party across the country. I'm the number one-watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the president and party," Pirro told McDaniel in one September 2020 message revealed as part of voting machine company Smartmatic's lawsuit against Fox News.
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(https://youtu.be/IA0b0MIPdIE), former Department of Justice prosecutor Mary McCord, who worked out of the District of Columbia office, pointed out that Pirro's messages may have had a self-serving element to them outside of her political views. And McCord observed that her efforts seem to have paid off.
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"Obviously, this is going to be very important to Smartmatic's case, but it should be important to all of us. And I want to come back to Jeanine Pirro, because ... it looks very much like one of the main reasons she was doing this was to try to be able to seek a pardon for her husband from Donald Trump — a pardon that he eventually did provide at the very end of his administration," McCord told Wallace. "And that looks very much like some type of a quid pro quo."
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"Nothing we're seeing in there would would support an outright bribery charge because that has to be very knowing and explicit," she continued. "But it certainly seems like that is what her intent was. And to think that she is now the person making prosecutorial decisions in the District of Columbia is pretty frightening."
As McCord mentioned, Pirro's husband, Albert, got a last-minute pardon from Trump (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/trump-last-minute-pardon-albert-pirro-460764) on January 20, 2021 – the day former President Joe Biden was inaugurated – as part of approximately 140 pardons Trump issued on the final day of his first term. Albert Pirro was convicted in 2000 on federal charges of conspiracy and tax evasion. That pardon was issued roughly four months after Pirro's message to McDaniel.
Watch the video of McCord's remarks below, or byclicking this link. (http://alternet.org/prosecutor-jeanine-pirro-trump)
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Jeanine Pirro mocked with January 6 photos after charging man for throwing sandwich at cop (https://www.alternet.org/jeanine-pirro-mocked/)
Former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro — who is now the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — posted a video on Wednesday bragging about charging a man who threw a sandwich at a police officer with a felony. Now, the Department of Justice's top prosecutor is being flooded with responses on social media.
According to the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/federal-agent-trump-sandwich-dc.html), the man in question, 37 year-old Sean C. Dunn, threw a Subway sandwich at the chest of a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer on Tuesday night near 14th and U Streets in Washington D.C., while calling federal officers "fascists." A detective said that Dunn admitted to his crime, saying: "I did it. I threw the sandwich." He faces up to one year in prison if convicted.
"Assault a law enforcement officer, and you’ll be prosecuted," Pirro wrote on X (https://x.com/JudgeJeanine/status/1955704405161808286). "This guy thought it was funny—well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged him with a felony."
READ MORE:'Severe pushback': House Republicans fear constituent revolt over divisive new proposal (https://www.alternet.org/house-republicans-pushback/)
Pirro's tweet was met with widespread ridicule by journalists, commentators, legal experts and others on social media, many of whom posted images from the violent January 6. 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in which multiple officers were harmed. NPR investigative correspondent Tom Dreisbach responded to Pirro's post by tweeting (https://x.com/TomDreisbach/status/1955767322238472515): "When President Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) came to office, he ended ongoing investigations into assaults on officers on Jan. 6, 2021." Journalist Zaid Jilani posted a screenshot of Trump's executive order (https://x.com/ZaidJilani/status/1955733655378387362) pardoning participants in the insurrection, adding "????"
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Daily Kos writer Emily C. Singer quote-posted Pirro's tweet saying people who attacked police officers would be "prosecuted" and then countered (https://x.com/CahnEmily/status/1955729809440751840): "Except if you’re a Trumper on Jan 6. Then we’ll pardon you and give you jobs." This may be a reference to DOJ senior advisor Jared Wise, who was recorded on video (https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5493197/doj-trump-jan-6-defendant-jared-wise-capitol-riot) encouraging January 6 rioters to "kill" police officers. Former U.S. Ambassador Luis Moreno made a similar argument (https://x.com/LuisMorenolg/status/1955725402363543817), also pointing out that Capitol rioters who assaulted police officers got a "presidential pardon."
"How about these assaults against law enforcement in DC," wrote former Obama administration official Brett Bruen (https://x.com/BrettBruen/status/1955720020249510038), who also posted an image of rioters attacking police on January 6.
"You know DC crime’s bad - the U.S. Attorney made a video when a guy threw a Subway sandwich at a cop," former federal prosecutor and MSNBC contributor Kristy Greenberg wrote (https://x.com/KGreenberg_/status/1955741780420518336). "Call the National Guard - that sandwich had some mustard on it."
READ MORE:Red state Republican comes out swinging against Trump's push to 'select new voters' (https://www.alternet.org/republican-trump-new-maps/)
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In Washington, DC — where protesters are speaking out against President Donald Trump's federalizing of local law enforcement —
a man is being charged with felony assault for throwing a Subway sandwich (https://x.com/nypost/status/1955742760834662776) at a police officer.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi highlighted the arrest in a late Thursday morning, August 14 post on X (https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1956010229348413694), formerly Twitter.
"If you touch any law enforcement officer," Bondi tweeted, "we will come after you. I just learned that this defendant worked at the Department of Justice — NO LONGER. Not only is he FIRED, he has been charged with a felony. This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ. You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement."
READ MORE:'That's how this ends': George Conway reveals 'the only way' to stop Trump's 'gangsterism' (https://www.alternet.org/george-conway-stop-trump/)
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Bondi's post is drawing some scathing responses from X users, some of whom are attacking her as a hypocrite in light of the fact that Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) granted federal pardons to the January 6, 2021 rioters — including those who violently attacked police officers that day.
Reporter Sam Youngman tweeted (https://x.com/samyoungman/status/1956018486301614386), "When you know DOJ reporters are too chickens—— to call you on your obvious hypocrisy.'"
Attorney Tracey Gallagher posted (https://x.com/asmartbrunette1/status/1956023677948190804), "You mean like the DOJ employing Jared Wise, a Jan. 6 defendant who called cops 'Nazis' and urged the crowd to 'kill em' as they stormed the Capitol? By the way Bondi hitting someone with a sandwich under state or federal law is not a felony.(18 U.S.C. § 111) you are missing an element here."
Gallagher, in a separate tweet, wrote (https://x.com/asmartbrunette1/status/1956026045863485633), "You're missing the element of a deadly weapon OR GBI you have neither."
READ MORE:'Disgusting': MAGA erupts at Democratic governor over 'classless' remark about Trump 'bro' (https://www.alternet.org/maga-democratic-governor-trump/)
Self-described "constitutional conservative" Kelly McCarty humorously posted (https://x.com/KellyLMcCarty/status/1956020038302933256), "Sandwich crime arrests should always be the top priority for the DOJ."
Attorney James Hess commented (https://x.com/JamesHessESQ/status/1956014330568433910), "But you won't go after people on the Epstein list?"
X user Pat Greentree wrote (https://x.com/endPACsNOW/status/1956012774380716050), "But if you work for a foreign spy agency and traffic children to US leaders for blackmail purposes they will protect you. THIS is the deep state, not a guy throwing a sandwich."
READ MORE:'Severe pushback': House Republicans fear constituent revolt over divisive new proposal (https://www.alternet.org/house-republicans-pushback/)
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The United States Senate has confirmed former Fox News television personality Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital, Washington, DC, filling the post after President Donald Trump withdrew his controversial first pick, conservative activist Edward Martin Jr.
Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, was confirmed on Saturday, with a vote of 50-45. Before becoming the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia in May, she co-hosted the Fox News show The Five on weekday evenings, where she frequently interviewed Trump.
Trump yanked Martin’s nomination after a key Republican senator said he could not support him due to Martin’s outspoken support for rioters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Martin now serves as the Justice Department’s pardon attorney.
Other hires from cable news include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who co-hosted Fox & Friends Weekend, and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, a former reality TV show competitor and Fox Business co-host.
Jeanine Pirro arrives at Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards, November 16, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee [George Walker IV/AP Photo]
Pirro briefly entered politics in ill-fated attempts to run for the US Senate and for the New York attorney general, losing the latter race to Democrat Andrew Cuomo.
She began earning wider public exposure by hosting a weekday television show, Judge Jeanine Pirro, from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, she joined Fox News Channel to host Justice with Judge Jeanine, which ran for 11 years, and today, she is a co-host of the network’s show, The Five.
Pirro has also authored several books, including Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, which was published in 2018. The Washington Post described the book as “sycophantic” in its support for Trump.
After promoting unfounded conspiracy theories alleging election fraud in 2020, Pirro was named a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, which said that Fox had broadcast false statements about the company.
Fox News settled the case for nearly $800m.
Last month, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to send Pirro’s nomination to the Senate floor after Democrats walked out to protest Emil Bove’s nomination to become a federal appeals court judge.
Al Jazeera
Pirro, a 1975 graduate of Albany Law School, has significantly more courtroom experience than Martin, who had never served as a prosecutor or tried a case before taking office in January. She was elected as a judge in New York’s Westchester County Court in 1990, before serving three terms as the county’s elected district attorney.
In the final minutes of his first term as president, Trump issued a pardon to Pirro’s ex-husband, Albert Pirro, who was convicted in 2000 on conspiracy and tax evasion charges.
Source: News Agencies
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Former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro confirmed as DC US Attorney after tense partisan struggle
New York Post
1 day ago
Jeanine Pirro — the former Fox News firebrand and onetime New York judge — was narrowly confirmed Saturday as Washington DC's top prosecutor.
Senate confirms former Fox News host Pirro as top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital
Associated Press
3 days ago
The Senate has confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital, filling the post after President Donald Trump withdrew his controversial first pick, conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, was confirmed 50-45. Before becoming the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in May, she co-hosted the Fox News show "The Five" on weekday evenings, where she frequently interviewed Trump.
Senate confirms former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia
nbcnews.com
2 days ago
The vote was along party lines, with all present Democrats voting against Pirro's confirmation.
Senate confirms former Fox host Jeanine Pirro as top prosecutor - UPI.com
UPI
2 days ago
The Senate has confirmed former Fox News TV host and Donald Trump supporter Jeanine Pirro as the top U.S. federal prosecutor.
Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
CBS News
2 days ago
The Senate on Saturday approved the nomination of Jeanine Pirro, confirming the cable news personality to a top prosecutor post in Washington, D.C.
US Senate confirms former Fox News host Pirro as DC top prosecutor
Al Jazeera English
3 days ago
Former Fox News host Pirro secures Senate confirmation with 50-45 vote, becoming US attorney for the nation's capital.
Republicans approve Fox News vet Jeanine Pirro to be the top federal prosecutor in D.C.
MSNBC
22 hours ago
Pirro's record made her a controversial choice to serve as the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. Senate Republicans rubber-stamped her nomination anyway.
WP-Bloomberg correction: JEANINE-PIRRO
Washington Post
1 day ago
<p>This correction refers to the slug JEANINE-PIRRO (by Paul Schwartzman, Spencer S. Hsu and Jeremy Barr, Post), which moved May 10, 2025.</p> <p>- - -</p> <p>A previous version of this article said Albert Pirro was sentenced to 29 years and served 11 before Trump pardoned him. He was sentenced to 29 months and served 11 months. Trump's pardon came after his release.</p> <p>- - -</p> <p>The Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News</p>
Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor for DC
New Hampshire Union Leader
2 days ago
The Senate on Saturday confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia in a 50-45 vote along party lines.
Senate confirms ex-Fox News host Pirro as top federal prosecutor for nation's capital
OPB
2 days ago
The Senate confirmed ex-Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital, after President Trump withdrew his controversial first pick, conservative activist Ed Martin Jr.
Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for D.C.
The New York Times
2 days ago
The former Fox News host, whose false statements about the 2020 election were part of a lawsuit against the network, had been serving in the role on a temporary basis.
'Totally unfit to serve': Fmr. Fox News host Jeanine Pirro confirmed as DC's top Federal Prosecutor
MSNBC
2 days ago
Jeanine Pirro, the combative former Fox News host and one of the most prominent and fiercest Trump allies, was confirmed last night as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Political strategist Rina Shah and former Special assistant to Obama Norm Eisen join The Weekend to discuss.
Former Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro confirmed as top prosecutorial cop for Washington DC
Fortune
1 day ago
In the final minutes of his first term as president, Trump issued a pardon to Pirro's ex-husband, Albert Pirro, who was convicted in 2000 on conspiracy and tax evasion charges.
Jeanine Pirro confirmed as U.S. attorney for D.C. as Trump and Democrats trade barbs
USA Today
2 days ago
Jeanine Pirro won Senate approval as US attorney in DC as Republicans raced to confirm a long list of President Donald Trump's nominees.
Pirro confirmed as D.C. U.S. Attorney amid partisan clash as Dem nominee blockade continues
Fox News
3 days ago
Former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro was confirmed as Washington D.C.'s U.S. Attorney in a party-line despite Democratic concerns over her election fraud claims and Jan. 6 Capitol riot defense.
Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as US attorney for DC
The Hill
2 days ago
The Senate on Saturday night confirmed President Trump's pick Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Pirro, a former Fox News host and prosecutor who served as district …
Raskin After Criticizing Election Denialism: GOP Trying to Take 'Meaning Out of Elections'
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12 hours ago
On Monday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The Weeknight," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) reacted to the confirmation of Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District | Clips
Ex-Fox host Jeanine Pirro confirmed as a top federal prosecutor
The New Zealand Herald
2 days ago
Pirro is a Trump loyalist who had a show, Justice With Judge Jeanine, on Fox News.
Former Fox host Jeanine Pirro confirmed as U.S. attorney for D.C.
MSNBC
2 days ago
The Senate voted to confirm former Fox News host and prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Pirro had been serving as interim U.S. attorney for D.C. since May, after Trump appointed her to replace conservative activist Ed Martin as the top federal prosecutor in Washington. Eugene Daniels reports on "The Weekend."
Senate confirms former Fox News host Pirro as top federal prosecutor for DC
Fox 11 News
2 days ago
The Senate has confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital.
Maddow Blog | Republicans approve Fox News vet Jeanine Pirro to be the top federal prosecutor in D.C.
MSNBC
1 day ago
Fox News' Jeanine Pirro was a controversial choice to serve as the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. Senate Republicans rubber-stamped her nomination anyway.
Senate confirms former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
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3 days ago
The Senate voted on Saturday to confirm former Fox News host and prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as U.S.
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The Daily Caller
2 days ago
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Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro To Serve As U.S. Attorney For D.C.
Deadline
3 days ago
The Senate on Saturday confirmed Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox host and commentator, to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Pirro was confirmed on a 50-45 vote along party lines. Donald Trump named her acting U.S. attorney in May, and later nominated her to take the position permanently. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), …
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3 days ago
Judge Jeanine Pirro confirmed as U.S. Attorney for DC by Senate in a close vote.
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2 days ago
Former Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro, who frequently interview Donald Trump during her time as a TV host, has now been confirmed as US attorney for the District of Columbia. She has held the post on interim basis since late May.
Senate confirms former Fox News host Pirro as top federal prosecutor in D.C.
Los Angeles Times
3 days ago
The Senate has confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia after Trump's first pick withdrew amid controversy.
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LiveNow Fox
3 days ago
The Senate has confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital.
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2 days ago
President Donald Trump touted the "show business" accomplishments of the former Fox News host he intends to swear in as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.The Senate voted 50-45 along party lines to confirm conservative broadcaster and Trump loyalist Jeanine Pirro to lead the U.S. attorn...
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As the news cycle enters its third week of “Epstein Files” frenzy, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence pick, Tulsi Gabbard, is throwing a Hail Mary—an obvious and cynical distraction. But a GOP-led Senate Intelligence report from five years ago is more than enough to swat it down.
David Edwards @ Raw Story (https://www.rawstory.com/michael-flynn-obama/): Michael Flynn floats 'military trial for Obama' despite presidential immunity
Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn suggested former President Barack Obama should face a "military trial" after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused him of a "treasonous conspiracy" to undermine Donald Trump's presidency.
Art Jipson @ The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/how-the-qanon-movement-entered-mainstream-politics-and-why-the-silence-on-epstein-files-matters-261316): How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the silence on Epstein files matters.
Over time, what started as a baseless conspiracy on obscure platforms has migrated into the mainstream. It has influenced rhetoric and policy debates, and even reshaped the American political landscape. The foundational belief of many of the QAnon followers is that Trump is a heroic figure fighting the elite pedophile ring.
Matt Gertz @ Media Matters (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trumps-latest-attempt-defuse-epstein-revolt-point-supporters-common-enemies): Trump’s latest attempt to defuse the Epstein revolt: Point supporters at common enemies
President Donald Trump is seeking to reunify allies enraged by his administration’s repudiation of MAGA claims about late convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein by offering up spurious attacks on common and familiar enemies: the media — in this case Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal — and former President Barack Obama.
Janna Brancolini @ The Daily Beast (https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-autopen-attack-dog-james-comer-vows-to-review-justice-ketanji-brown-jacksons-appointment/): Trump’s Autopen Attack Dog Vows to Review Biden’s SCOTUS Appointment
Amid the Jeffrey Epstein saga, Rep. James Comer claimed Joe Biden’s alleged autopen use was the “biggest scandal in the history of American politics.”
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Senators weighing her nomination for U.S. attorney should revisit her remarks denigrating prosecutors and calling defendants “hostages.”
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NYC's Young Republican club cosplays as a deadly political weapon, but may be less ferocious than it appears.
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April 29, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five
JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): There are Americans that are being detained by ICE, and it's not just one person, it's not two people. Yesterday, the story from Oklahoma, a woman and her daughters, her minor daughters, asleep in their home. ICE busted --
JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): You already talked about that.
TARLOV: No, I didn't, it was another -- that's the thing --
PIRRO: Oh, this is another mother with two kids?
TARLOV: Well, the first mother had three kids, I'm glad you're so interested. But yes, this is multiple families being devastated by ICE. But this one is American and that's why it matters. ICE came into the house. There had been people, immigrants, who had lived there and they moved out a few weeks earlier. This family had just moved in. They came in, they made them go outside, including the girls, were taken outside in their underwear. They took their money and their electronics. This is an American family. If that happened to any --
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): Alright, Jessica. No one even believes your stories anymore. They always fall apart.
PIRRO: Yeah, and you know what, they rectified it.
[CROSSTALK]
TARLOV: Literally none of it has fallen apart.
WATTERS: What about the Maryland dad? Whatever happened to him?
TARLOV: That didn't fall apart. He's still some prison --
WATTERS: He's MS-13, Jessica.
TARLOV: He is not --
PIRRO: And there are two orders of deportation on him and he lied about being afraid to go back to El Salvador because he had to admit he was an MS-13 gang member --
TARLOV: Keep going back to one person that you think you have a case about --
[CROSSTALK]
PIRRO: Jessica, let me tell you something --
TARLOV: If someone dragged you out of your house in the middle of the night, you would kill somebody. Literally.
April 21, 2025 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom
DANA PERINO (CO-ANCHOR): Can I ask you though, so the White House was emphatic. They said again yesterday, he is never coming back. But when you say he's not in custody, is he free to walk around, he's free to go?
ANDY MCCARTHY (LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR): We don't know. You know, what we don't know, Dana, is was this whole thing with the Senator Van Hollen last week, was that staged? You know did they let him out for a few hours and have a minder there and once Van Hollen was gone, they put him back in the prison? Or is he free to walk the streets? We don't know.
PERINO: Okay, Tom Homan also, I'm not going to play the sound because, just for time, I just want to ask you this one last thing. He says they stand by the fact that they did the right thing here. What you're suggesting is if they want an off ramp, it exists in the law that they could find it.
MCCARTHY: It always has, Dana. They don't want off ramps. What I'm worried about is they actually want to use this as a demonstration that the court can't control them and they don't have to honor due process. That's the worrisome thing about this.
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Jeanine Pirro dismisses the need for due process for people in America being sent to an El Salvador prison (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/jeanine-pirro-dismisses-need-due-process-people-america-being-sent-el-salvador-prison)
04/16/25
Jeanine Pirro attacks government benefits for orphaned babies (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jeanine-pirro-attacks-government-benefits-orphaned-babies)
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Fox News' Jeanine Pirro calls for the arrest of governors who don't comply with ICE: “It's time to take a side” (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-calls-arrest-governors-who-dont-comply-ice-its-time-take-side)
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January 9, 2025, edition of Fox Business' Mornings with Maria
MARIA BARTIROMO (ANCHOR): Have we ruled out all outside agitators?
MARK TEPPER (GUEST): No. In fact, I think there were videos of some arsonists creating new fires. So no, I don't think that's been ruled out at all and given the terror attacks that we saw on January 1, I mean, it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility that that's happening. But you know, what's happening right now — at least for me — a lack of mitigation standpoint prior to this has to do with the fact that California is effectively a one-party system. And when you're operating under a one-party system, there's no accountability from the other party to help you make sure that you're doing what you should be doing.
BARTIROMO: That's a great point.
TEPPER: Gross incompetence. Having priorities backwards. All that stuff contributed to what's happening, not saying it caused it, but it certainly contributed.
BARTIROMO: But I'd like to know what kind of investigation is underway in terms of outside agitators. I mean, all of these people who have come into America and wanting to disrupt our lives. I would like to see an investigation to ensure that we know that there were no outside agitators starting these fires.
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Jessica Tarlov, a progresive Fox News host, attempted to fact check conservative co-host Jeanine Pirro on Thursday over Republicans' narrative that the New Orleans truck attack that left 14 people dead was due to illegal immigration.
"When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true," President-elect Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) wrote in a statement in response to the tragedy. "Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!"
In her response to President Joe Biden's statement, on the other hand, Mediate reports (https://www.mediaite.com/tv/thats-not-true-tarlov-throws-down-with-pirro-over-false-claim-about-new-orleans-terror-attack/) that Tarlov said to Pirro, "When you say, 'I’m embarrassed watching Joe Biden,’ I’m not embarrassed seeing someone stand up there and saying, 'Let’s wait for some facts here,' because Donald Trump went out there and he said…"
READ MORE:'Disgrace': GOP senator slammed for 'tone deaf' remark in response to terror attack (https://www.alternet.org/news-politics/gop-senator-terror/)
Tarlov was then interrupted by the right-wing host.
"No, he assured Americans all was well," Pirro shot back.
"No, listen to all of the comments that he made and the statements which said we need to make sure we have the right facts," Tarlov replied, "and the right facts were that the guy in New Orleans was an American. He wasn’t an illegal."
Pirro then said, "No one’s saying he wasn’t."
"That’s not true!" Tarlov protested. "There have been Republicans who have been on TV today talking about how this was an open border problem."
READ MORE:FBI issued 'vehicle-ramming' warning ahead of Bourbon Street mass casualty incident: report (https://www.alternet.org/fbi-vehicle-ramming-warning/)
Pirro replied, "Seventy-five percent of the arrests in New York City are illegals! Let’s stop playing games!"
Tarlov shot back, "Move the goalposts! Move them as far as you want. Sugar Bowl-wide! Whatever."
Watch Mediaite's video below or at this link. (https://www.alternet.org/republicans-new-orleans-attack/)
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Fox News' Jeanine Pirro responds to New Orleans attack by calling the police chief “a DEI hire” (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-responds-new-orleans-attack-calling-police-chief-dei-hire)
01/03/25
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Watch Chris Hayes highlight Fox News' deceptive editing in interviews with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump (https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/watch-chris-hayes-highlight-fox-news-deceptive-editing-interviews-kamala-harris-and-donald)
10/16/24 9:04 PM EDT
- ### Fox's Jeanine Pirro says if women were more “educated” about reproductive rights they wouldn’t care about Roe V. Wade (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-jeanine-pirro-says-if-women-were-more-educated-about-reproductive-rights-they-wouldnt)
10/16/24 7:41 PM EDT
- ### Report: Fox News deceptively edited Trump's town hall (https://www.mediamatters.org/harris-faulkner/report-fox-news-deceptively-edited-trumps-town-hall)
10/16/24
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September 5, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Five
JEANINE PIRRO (HOST): There is no evidence. Look, it's shock. The Russians are spreading propaganda. First of all, a lot of countries do that, in fact, we do that. Okay? So let's stop fooling ourselves. But the only bad actor in the world is not Russia. In fact, Russia is the excuse used by those who want to tell us that the laptop is Russian disinformation. Russia didn't tell us that. The Democrats told us that. The Democrats told us that and they changed an election with that because they suppressed our freedom of speech.
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over a handful of hours on Tuesday, the right’s conspiracy theory ecosystem concocted a sinister plot by President Joe Biden to assassinate his predecessor out of the banal fact that FBI agents received standard instructions on the use of force before conducting a court-ordered search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022.
Hundreds of pages of filings (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/21/us/trump-mal-motion-to-suppress-govt-response.html) were unsealed (https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/mar-a-lago-documents-walt-nauta-donald-trump?cid=ios_app) on Tuesday in Trump’s classified documents case, revealing that the former president — who is charged with 40 federal criminal counts (https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/trump-criminal-investigations-cases-tracker-list/) related to his alleged willful retention of documents after leaving the White House — had multiple documents marked “classified” in his bedroom that were discovered months after the 2022 search.
Credible outlets reviewed the documents and produced a wave (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna153337) of news (https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-suspected-additional-obstruction-effort-trump-classified/story?id=110438582) stories (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-documents/) detailing (https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/trumps-classified-documents-bedroom-mar-a-lago) what a judge described as “strong evidence” of Trump’s allegedly criminal acts (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/21/trump-florida-classified-documents-motions/). Meanwhile, Trump’s MAGA media supporters ginned up a counternarrative based on a credulous reading of a deceptive argument from Trump’s lawyers that was included in the unsealed documents.
The story that emerged from the right-wing media echo chamber posits that pro forma language provided to FBI agents before the 2022 search which stated that “law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary” was actually part of a Biden scheme to assassinate Trump. This is both a horrific accusation to make without evidence and facially absurd for any number of reasons. (Why would the Biden administration issue assassination orders in writing and then conduct the Mar-a-Lago search (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/01/fbi-dispute-trump-mar-a-lago-raid/#::text=Terry%20Renna/AP%29-,The%20raid,-But%20prosecutors%20appeared) on a date specifically selected because Trump would be in New York instead?) But it spread quickly from its initiation by a key figure in the right’s January 6 disinformation community, through the ranks of MAGA influencers, to Trump himself, and then to the Fox News airwaves.
By Tuesday night, Trump’s campaign had issued (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/21/trump-mar-a-lago-raid-fbi-deadly-force/) a fundraising email in which the presumptive Republican presidential nominee alleged of the Biden administration, “You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable … Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”
The startlingly quick adoption of an unhinged conspiracy theory shows how the right-wing media apparatus operates (https://www.mediamatters.org/fake-news/right-wing-ecosystem-created-paul-pelosi-conspiracy-theory), dreaming up convoluted but inflammatory nonsense and bombarding their audience with it. Here’s how it happened.
Right-wing fabulist turns standard FBI policy into “mind-blowing” story
The right-wing writer Julie Kelly, in a series of Tuesday afternoon posts on X (formerly Twitter), purported to reveal the “bombshells” (https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1792984700388077655) she had uncovered by scouring the unsealed documents.
“Tons of new unsealed filings on classified docs case--I will try to post as much as I can (there goes the workout) but this is mind-blowing,” she posted (https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1792969008657948733) at 1:21 p.m. ET. “FBI authorized the use of deadly force at Mar-a-Lago.”
She included a screenshot of a filing (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/21/us/trump-mal-motion-to-suppress.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share) from Trump’s lawyers which stated that the FBI’s “Operations Order” for the Mar-a-Lago search “contained a ‘Policy Statement’ regarding ‘Use of Deadly Force,’ which stated, for example, ‘Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary.’”
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Kelly went on to post the “Policy Statement” and claim (https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1792972717781586109) that the instructions show that “the FBI risked the lives of Donald Trump, his family, his staff, and MAL guests for a publicity stunt to make it look like Trump stole national security files.” She added, “People need to be arrested for this.”
In reality — and as more credible journalists pointed (https://x.com/KFaulders/status/1793058947152121926) out (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-lawmakers-conflate-fbi-policy-trump-assassination-attempt-rcna153413) — those instructions are standard for FBI searches.
“These are the rules that apply to FBI agents whenever they do anything,” Reuters reporter Brad Heath wrote (https://x.com/bradheath/status/1792982611016442280) in response to Kelly’s initial claim on X. He added (https://x.com/bradheath/status/1793007919635521694), “Agents - like all cops - can use deadly force when met with a sufficiently serious threat. The policy the FBI followed here applies all the time; they are the same rules agents follow when walking down a sidewalk.”
“One clue that this is the generic DOJ use of force policy — not something cooked up for Mar-a-Lago, let alone ordered by the president — is that it talks about the use of warning shots in prison,” Heath noted (https://x.com/bradheath/status/1793010516966711461) in response to Kelly’s post with the “Policy Statement.”
The FBI would later issue a statement (https://x.com/alex_mallin/status/1793067030029173190) confirming that the bureau had “followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force.”
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Kelly is among the foremost proponents (https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/here-are-key-right-wing-media-figures-who-rewrote-history-january-6#paragraph--section-heading--3456093) of the right’s January 6 counternarrative. She has argued (https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/bannon-guest-julie-kelly-january-6-was-probably-biggest-instance-police) that the violent rioting at the U.S. Capitol by Trumpists who assaulted scores of law enforcement officers “was probably the biggest instance of police brutality that this country has seen since the Civil Rights movement,” described (https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/frequent-fox-news-guest-calls-officer-testifying-january-6-commission-crisis) a police officer who testified before the January 6 select committee as a “crisis actor,” and suggested (https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/oan-host-and-julie-kelly-push-conspiracy-theory-fbi-fabricated-pipe-bombs) that the FBI fabricated the pipe bombs discovered at the Republican and Democratic national headquarters that day because it is “an enforcement arm, a surveillance arm of the Democratic Party.” And her interpretation of the filings made no sense and was quickly debunked.
None of that slowed down the ranks of MAGA influencers, who quickly seized on her story.
MAGA influencers run with “assassination” nonsense
Within minutes, influential figures in the MAGA movement adopted Kelly’s interpretation and effectively began competing for the most overwrought response as they furiously posted on X. Many alleged that the document showed a Biden-directed assassination plot against Trump.
“The FBI authorized the use of deadly force when they raided Mar-a-Lago,” Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk commented (https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1792985984516206663). “You read that right. They were authorized to kill Trump employees, possibly even assassinate Trump himself, to exact their political revenge.”
“The FBI authorized the use of deadly force when they raided Mar-a-Lago?” wrote (https://x.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1792990149766258734) podcaster and former One America News host Liz Wheeler. “Were they hoping to assassinate Trump or his family or employees? This is insane.”
“So that was the real reason for the FBI raiding a president’s home: an excuse to use deadly force against Donald Trump,” offered (https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1792970460591739295) The Federalist’s Sean Davis. “The court case was just plan B for the corrupt DOJ and FBI.” He added (https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1793069619978055684), “The FBI is a domestic terrorist organization.”
Trump ally Laura Loomer similarly argued (https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1793010180663160943) that the document shows “a possible assassination attempt of President Trump by the Biden regime and FBI!”
Trump and the GOP lie that this shows Biden is “A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY”
Trump and his campaign are very attuned to the nonsense his online supporters generate, and within hours they adopted their bogus narrative.
At 5:21 p.m. ET — just four hours after Kelly’s initial post — Trump posted (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112481173729711738) on his Truth Social account: “WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE — 25TH AMENDMENT!”
Trump’s campaign posted his comment to X, where it was quickly reposted by an arm of the Republican National Committee.
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The former president’s most unhinged congressional supporters chimed in.
“The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light. Does everyone get it yet???!!!!” commented (https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1793058483006259472) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
His biggest media supporters were not far behind.
Fox “news” and “opinion” sides parrot the MAGA spin
Right-wing commentators have spent the last nine years figuring out how to respond to Trump’s massive lies. At this point, everyone who retains a major platform knows their role is to, at the least, soft-pedal his unhinged claims, and at most, to prove they are on board with the MAGA movement by treating them as truth.
That’s what played out on Fox’s airwaves after Trump declared that the FBI’s use of standard orders for the Mar-a-Lago search showed that Biden is “A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.”
Fox could have provide credible reporting tamping down on the lies circulating online. The network employs people who report on the Justice Department and FBI and even has Kerri Kupec Urbahn, a former top aide in the Trump DOJ, on the payroll (https://www.foxnews.com/person/k/kerri-kupec-urbahn). If the network wanted to find out if the FBI orders were standard, it would be really easy to do so.
But Fox’s business model and its political agenda both depend on propagandizing for Trump, so that’s not what happened. Instead, around an hour after Trump’s Truth Social post, FoxNews.com sent the following push alert (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4020335): “BREAKING NEWS New docs reveal Biden DOJ authorized ‘deadly force’ in Mar-a-Lago raid.’” Here’s how the story’s promotion looked on the website’s front page:
From FoxNews.com at approximately 6:23 p.m. on May 21, 2024.
When the network first discussed (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4020338) the story later that hour on the flagship “news” show Special Report, the segment focused on the same “deadly force” language Kelly had flagged.
Bret Baier, the network’s chief political anchor, opened by highlighting that “former President Trump's attorneys argue the Biden administration Justice Department authorized the use of deadly force if necessary” during the Mar-a-Lago search. Correspondent Kevin Corke responded that the order is “quite shocking.”
Baier went on to downplay the notion that the FBI instructions were standard.
“There may be some people, Kevin, who say that this is just a policy statement of standard operating procedures put inside this operations order for this specific raid,” he said. “But obviously it's not standard operating procedure when you're going into the house of the former president, who happens to be protected by Secret Service.”
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CitationFrom the May 21, 2024, edition of Fox News' Special Report.
When Baier offered a similar comment later in the hour during a panel segment, contributor Byron York described (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4020325) the situation as “kind of worrisome” because the FBI was supposedly “loaded for bear and prepared for the possibility of some sort of violent confrontation with the Secret Service. … The idea that it was prepared for this way, as opposed to, say, worked out in advance, is really troubling.” (In fact, the FBI ensured that “the Secret Service would receive a heads-up a few hours before FBI agents arrived to avoid any law enforcement conflict,” The Washington Post has reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/01/fbi-dispute-trump-mar-a-lago-raid/).)
Fox’s “opinion” hosts have been running with the story ever since.
CitationFox News screenshots, 5/21/24 and 5/22/24
“They were actually thinking of using deadly force, or it's on the table that might be necessary at Mar-a-Lago?” Laura Ingraham asked (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4020326) Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO). “Deadly force? OK. It’s really lawfare, it’s not funny. Something actually could have gone down I guess at Mar-a-Lago, beyond just looking for the documents.”
Jesse Watters and Jeanine Pirro went even further (https://www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watters/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-and-jesse-watters-suggests-fbi-wanted-engage-deadly-physical) on Watters’ show, with the host declaring, “Authorized armed agents to use deadly force in the Mar-a-Lago raid. That is insane. Is there any justification for that?”
“Absolutely not,” Pirro replied, adding that “my mind as a prosecutor goes to maybe they wanted the engagement of physical force. Maybe they wanted to come in without FBI, without DOJ, without all of that identifying so that they could engage in deadly physical force.”
Sean Hannity called (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4020328) the “deadly force” language a “shocking new revelation.” He acknowledged it was “boilerplate language” but nonetheless asked, “Why was Merrick Garland prepping for a possible, what, shootout?”
Fox was still carrying Trump’s water on Wednesday morning:...
How Fox hosts are reacting to the collapse of their FBI “informant” story
WRITTEN BY MATT GERTZ (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/matt-gertz)
:{PUBLISHED 02/20/24
The right’s flagging effort to impeach President Joe Biden took another blow last week when the Justice Department said that Alexander Smirnov, an FBI informant, had made up his accusation that Biden and his son Hunter had each taken $5 million bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch, and charged him with lying to the bureau.
Smirnov’s tale, chronicled in a much-ballyhooed FBI FD-1023 report released last year, was described (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/now-indicted-fbi-informant-was-heart-gops-case-joe-biden-rcna139200) by House Republicans as the “heart” of their case against the president. “The most corroborating evidence we have is the 1023 form from this highly credible confidential human source,” House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) said in a January interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Right-wing Fox propagandists like Hannity had relentlessly promoted (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-hyped-flimsy-report-made-dubious-claims-about-joe-biden-fbi-just-arrested) the informant’s claims, touting his purported credibility while ignoring the flimsy, sensational nature (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/29/biden-comer-giuliani-ukraine/) of his Biden bribery allegations. But they aren’t responding to his arrest by leveling with their viewers or reflecting on why they were taken in by unverified claims that “proved” what they desperately wanted to believe. Here’s what they’re doing with the news instead.
- Ignoring it
Fox provided a mere 31 minutes of coverage of Smirnov’s indictment from Thursday through Monday. That total is noticeably scant given how loudly the network previously trumpeted the informant’s allegations; Fox mentioned (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/15/remember-biden-bribe-allegation-doj-now-says-it-was-made-up/) “Biden in the context of ‘bribe’ or ‘bribery’ more than 2,600 times” in the year before his arrest, The Washington Post’s Philip Bump reported.
Several shows that typically provide robust coverage of the Hunter Biden probe ignored it; Fox & Friends provided only a single headline read, while The Ingraham Angle did not address the story at all (the latter featured interviews (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/16/fox-conspiracy-theory-upended/) with a “body-language expert” as well as purported comedian Jimmy Failla on Thursday).
- Claiming this actually makes Republicans look good
Hannity has been pilloried (https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/msnbcs-chris-hayes-explains-how-fox-pushed-lying-informant-proof-biden-bribery) by the press (https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1708055856591fb5f6265cf84/raw?utm_term=1708055856591fb5f6265cf84&utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+Feb.+15%2C+2024&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=PMQG2wxSM%2B96LnrtVq6OLLwDWezthuFTQUFpDeDSRDlkyPTneeRDkK4tKID4YpZ2&bt_ts=1708055856594) for his credulous treatment of the informant’s claims; he promoted them on his Fox show (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/study-how-sean-hannity-helped-build-gops-collapsing-hunter-biden-impeachment-case#paragraph--section-heading--3457290) in at least 85 segments last year, touting them as evidence of “public corruption” and “bribery.” (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/after-disastrous-first-impeachment-hearing-house-gop-chairs-retreat-hannity)
When the host finally addressed the informant’s arrest on Friday, rather than acknowledging that he had served as the willing tool of the Republican politicians who sought to inject the informant’s story into the public discourse, Hannity claimed that the new developments actually make those Republicans look good.
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CitationFrom the February 16, 2024, edition of Fox News' Hannity.
The Fox host acknowledged that he had “talked a lot about” the 1023, but presented it as “very damning, but a very, very small part of what is the large body of evidence in the Biden impeachment inquiry.” After rattling off a string of falsehoods (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/study-how-sean-hannity-helped-build-gops-collapsing-hunter-biden-impeachment-case) familiar to his show’s regular viewers but inscrutable to normal people, Hannity claimed that Smirnov’s arrest “raises a lot of questions” — but for the FBI, not Republicans like Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who released the 1023 form, or right-wing media figures like himself who promoted it.
“When presented with information from a source that the agency so trusted for what, now 14 years, the FBI, as exposed by Sen. Grassley, they sat on that 1023 document and they did so for years,” Hannity claimed. “He was still working for the FBI and without any performance of any due diligence, they never looked into it.”
“So it's clear that only after Sen. Grassley made the 1023 public that the FBI then investigate the allegations of the document,” he added.
Hannity was somewhat more candid on his radio show (https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-reacts-fbi-informants-arrest-lying-fbi-about-joe-and-hunter-biden-i-guess) Friday. “I'm mad that the FBI informant, the 1023 form in this case, that now this guy has been charged,” he said. “It appears that Alexander Smirnov was not to be trusted.”
“I guess I was stupid,” he concluded.
- Layering on more conspiracy theories
The right-wing media have spent the last several years constructing a ludicrous, overarching conspiracy theory (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trumpist-media-demanding-politicized-justice) that federal law enforcement agencies are left-wing institutions which persecute conservatives. Some of Fox’s biggest conspiracy theorists are leaning on that to explain Smirnov’s arrest, alleging that the informant’s story is true and he’s only being charged with a crime because the deep state is trying to help Biden.
Prime-time host Jesse Watters — who has promoted a lengthy list of conspiracy theories (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jesse-watters-prime-time-fox-news-show-cesspool-bizarre-conspiracy-theories), including spreading doubt about the brutal assault (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/even-body-camera-footage-paul-pelosis-assault-didnt-stop-rights-conspiracy-theorists) of Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband during a home invasion — claimed on Friday that Smirnov had been arrested because “he was too credible.” He attributed the charges to the president directly, alleging that “this is the second informant Biden has arrested for blowing the whistle about his bribes” (it is true that this is the second indictment (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/waiting-whistleblower) of a supposed “whistleblower” whose unverified, dramatic claims were previously touted by Republicans and right-wing media).
Watters went on to claim that “everyone who blows the whistle on the Biden syndicate or is connected to it has been arrested.” He then brought on former FBI agent Stuart Kaplan, who claimed that the Bidens “took out a hit on this informant, Smirnov. They have now disabled him, and now the public is going to believe, well, this guy is a liar.”
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Maria Bartiromo, whose treatment (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/problem-foxs-dominion-defamation-wasnt-lawyering) of purported election fraud during the 2020 election helped put Fox on the hook for a record defamation settlement, offered a similar reaction to Smirnov’s indictment (https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/maria-bartiromo-accuses-doj-intimidation-201435785.html) on her Fox Business show on Friday.
- Diverting viewers to a different, similarly dubious Biden scandal
Some Fox hosts are following the right's typical cycle (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/waiting-whistleblower) by moving on to a new MacGuffin after the failure of the old one.
Fox host Brian Kilmeade, for instance, presented Smirnov’s arrest as part of a “rollercoaster week” for “the Biden family business drama.” He briefly noted that Smirnov had been charged with fabricating the Biden bribery story, adding that it “turns out not to be true, but keep in mind that is an FBI informant, nothing to do with Republicans.”
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CitationFrom the February 17, 2024, edition of Fox News' One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.
Having relieved Republicans and their media allies of any responsibility for endlessly promoting Smirnov’s tale, Kilmeade moved on to the new shiny object: the deposition of Tony Bobulinski, a disgruntled former business partner of Hunter Biden.
“He knows it all,” Kilmeade raved. “He testified that he has got receipts. He's got emails. He has got text messages showing that this business existed and thrived.”
“I cannot wait to see this publicly,” he concluded. “I can't wait to read the transcripts. That's all coming your way, he is going to testify.”
Sure, Bobulinski told his story on Fox’s own airwaves nearly four years ago (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-gops-impeachment-hype-man-tony-bobulinski-edition) and it dissolved under scrutiny. But this time … this time is going to be different.
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The Bowman “insurrection” farce | Media Matters for America (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/bowman-insurrection-farce)
Right-wing propagandists have used Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s (D-NY) local criminal charge for pulling a fire alarm to reignite their bogus claims that he is an “insurrectionist” and argue that he should spend “years” imprisoned in “the DC Gulag.”
As you may or may not recall, the right spent the end of September diligently trying to construct a major scandal (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/laughable-right-wing-effort-compare-rep-bowman-january-6-insurrectionists) out of Bowman pulling the fire alarm in a House office building. Right-wing media propagandists alleged that the congressman’s (admittedly boneheaded) move was actually a calculated attempt to stall action on the House floor, which they described as an “insurrection” comparable to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The story receded amid the chaos of the past weeks (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/flashback-would-be-speaker-mike-johnsons-fox-interview-trumps-mob-stormed-capitol) in the House of Representatives following Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) removal, but came roaring back on Wednesday, as House Republicans anointed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and prosecutors in Washington, D.C., charged (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/jamaal-bowman-fire-alarm.html#::text=%E2%80%9CCongressman%20Bowman%20was%20treated%20like,we%20have%20jurisdiction%20to%20prosecute.%E2%80%9D) Bowman with a single count of setting off a false fire alarm.
Bowman will plead guilty to that single count, agreeing to publicly apologize and pay the maximum $1,000 fine for pulling the alarm on September 30. At the time, he explained (https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1708300109115445664) that he had been rushing from his office in the Cannon House Office Building to the Capitol for a vote, came to a door that was usually open but at that time was locked, and “activated the fire alarm, mistakenly thinking it would open the door.” Those claims were consistent with reports that members of Congress often go outside (https://twitter.com/mattbruenig/status/1708491268995547383) to get from their offices to the Capitol for votes, and Cannon’s doors are closed and alarmed (https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1708216588938142150) on weekends, when members of Congress are typically not present.
The Capitol Police investigation into Bowman’s actions further supports his statements. An affidavit by the investigator included in the charging documents (https://www.axios.com/2023/10/25/jamaal-bowman-fire-alarm-charge) states that “security camera footage showed Bowman attempting to open the door before pulling the alarm” and subsequently “attempting to get out of the building through several other exits before making his way out of the building and … to the Capitol for the vote,” Axios reported.
“Based on the evidence presented by Capitol Police, we charged the only crime that we have jurisdiction to prosecute,” a spokesperson for the D.C. attorney general’s office said.
But right-wingers have ignored or rejected all this in the hours since news of the charge against Bowman broke, instead doubling down on their initial claims. They have continued to describe the New York representative as an “insurrectionist” and complained that, unlike the January 6 defendants, he is facing “gentle treatment” when he should face serious prison time.
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CitationFrom the October 25, 2023, edition of Fox News' The Five.
=“He should go to jail just like the massive number of January 6 protesters,” Fox News host Greg Gutfeld claimed on The Five, adding that Bowman’s stint in prison for pulling a fire alarm should last “years.”
Co-host Jeanine Pirro argued that Bowman’s actions had been a “political thing” by Democrats.
“They wanted to shut down so they could trash the Republicans. He was trying to delay it,” she jeered. (In reality, Bowman and every other member of the Democratic caucus but one voted for (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/government-shutdown-saturday-rcna118201) the bill to avert a shutdown and fund the government through mid-November.)
Right-wing influencers chimed in on social media with a similar schtick.
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This treatment of Bowman’s fire alarm snafu shows the continuation of three general trends on the Trumpist right.
First, many influential figures are either too lazy to examine the facts before commenting, or have total contempt for their audiences and assume they will not do so.
Second, they desperately want political prosecutions (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trumpist-media-demanding-politicized-justice). If Republicans have faced legal accountability, in their worldview, Democrats must be made to face it as well, even if they haven’t committed the same crimes.
Third, Tucker Carlson’s twisted view (https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/tucker-carlson-jan-6-deception-fox-news-rcna73794) that January 6 was no big deal has spread throughout the movement. The insurrection is treated as either a cudgel or a joke, not a horrifying disaster that should be prevented from repeating in the future.
That's how you end up with members of Congress jeering reporters (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1717013355775545630) for asking the newly-minted House speaker about his past role trying to overturn the 2020 election. Donald Trump’s efforts to toss the results are simply old news that they don’t want to talk about, even as they install one of the architects of the former president’s election subversion plot at the highest level of government.
The laughable right-wing effort to compare Rep. Bowman to January 6 insurrectionists
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Fox host claims Rep. Bowman thought “he could get away” with pulling fire alarm because he is the “right race”
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Tucker Carlson preemptively blames Rep. Jamaal Bowman for any future attempts on his life by right-wing extremists h
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Fox News' Jeanine Pirro blames “green energy” for the Maui fire devastation
Pirro: “It's not about global warming and it's not about climate change”
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PUBLISHED 08/29/23
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CitationFrom the August 29, 2023, edition of Fox News' The Five
DANA PERINO(CO-HOST): Immediately, it's almost as ifany issue, if you don't want to deal with accountability, you just say "climate change."
JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): Yeah. Well, I think I've said this before. In the winter, it's all about COVID. In the summer, it's all about climate change. Okay? And we just need to put more money into it. I heard today, the president's going to ask for more money for COVID. I mean, so here we go again.
But look. If what Maisie -- Horono -- if what Maisie Senator Horono says is true -- $300 billion to fight climate change -- how come this kind of thing is happening?
Alright, the Inflation Reduction Act was all about a giveaway to the green energy companies. In the end, it's not about global warming and it's not about climate change. It's about negligence. Pure and simple. It's about ineptitude. It's about an area that didn't keep up with what was going on because they were trying to get to the green energy next step.
And so, they were too busy working on green energy.They ignored the obligation of the current situation. They didn't fill the water reservoir, okay? They didn't turn off the power lines when they got a warning that there would be high winds coming. Andthey failed to follow protocol to shut down the live power lines.
And so what we've got now is the power lines are igniting dry grass and bush and people died as a result of it. And they didn't even send off the sirens. The guy said he was worried people that would run toward the fires if they turned the sirens off.
It's about an excuse. We live in a world that's all about excuses, that is blocked in terms of ideology. It's all tribalism. You're on this side, or you're on this side. Facts are irrelevant.
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Federal regulator’s verdict: 'Judge' Jeanine Pirro committee is breaking the law
Matt LasloandRaw Story August 06, 2023
Federal regulators are going after Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro — again — for failing to follow the law.
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Last month, for at least the 55th time — that isn’t a typo — the Federal Election Commission sent Pirro’s still-technically-active U.S. Senate campaign committee a letter warning it of accounting errors and missed deadlines. It threatened consequences.
“The failure to timely file a complete report may result in civil money penalties, an audit or legal enforcement action,” the FEC’s letter said. “The civil money penalty calculation for late reports does not include a grace period and begins on the day following the due date for the report.”
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But Pirro knows better than most that nothing is likely to happen. In these cases, the FEC famously huffs and puffs without following through.
Pirro for Senate dates back to Pirro’s aborted 2006 challenge to Hillary Clinton for the U.S. Senate in New York. Late in 2005, Pirro quit after an inept campaign and polls showing Clinton would trounce her on Election Day.
The Pirro campaign committee failed to file required FEC financial reports for at least seven years before trying to dissolve in 2019.
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That year, Pirro for Senate said in a hand-written FEC filing that its debts of about $600,000 “are not collectable as the (state) 6 year statue (sic) of limitation has long passed.”
It’s unclear from FEC filings whether the agency refused to accept the campaign’s explanation about the debt. The campaign’s most recent filing listed no money on hand, no fundraising and no spending.
Bruce Bellmare, treasurer for the committee, couldn’t be reached for comment.
The FEC said it wouldn’t comment on individual candidates or committees.
Generally, the FEC won’t let a political committee terminate itself until it’s resolved outstanding debts accounting issues.
Pirro’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” show was a long-running Fox News staple until last year, when Pirro became a co-host of “The Five” — the highest-rated program in cable news across all networks, according to AdWeek’s TVNewser.
Despite her own unpaid creditors, Pirro last year criticized the idea of student loan forgiveness, saying, “This is a giveaway and it's disgusting.”
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u.S. House candidate Riley Moore, who's backed by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, has made six appearances on virulent antisemite Michael Scheuer’s podcast, where the West Virginia treasurer praised the host and his “tremendous program.”
Scheuer is a QAnon conspiracy theorist (https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-scheuer-hunted-bin-laden-for-cia-now-he-wants-americans-dead) who has called for the assassinations of numerous Democrats and said that Jewish people are “disloyal,” “subversive,” and “lethal enemies of Americans” who "must be stopped and then scoured from the continent.”
Moore, who was elected (https://wvtreasury.com/About-The-Office/Meet-the-Treasurer) treasurer of West Virginia in 2020, announced (https://wvpublic.org/state-treasurer-riley-moore-announces-run-for-u-s-congress/) in November 2022 that he’s running for the state’s 2nd Congressional District seat. McCarthy endorsed (https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/12/mccarthy-endorses-riley-moore-for-open-west-virginia-house-seat-00101585) his campaign last month, with Politico writing that his “endorsement could help Moore clear the field in his primary election, where he is already outraising all of his opponents.”
Scheuer (https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-scheuer) is an ex-CIA intelligence officer who co-hosts the Two Mikes podcast. Moore has appeared (https://rumble.com/search/video?q=%22Riley%20Moore%22%20%22Two%20Mikes%22&sort=date) on the show six times since December 2021, including twice since beginning his congressional run. Moore’s most recent appearance was on June 26 and was posted with the title“Riley Moore is Standing up to The Globalists.” (Antisemites (https://forward.com/community/412627/globalism-anti-semitism/) frequently (https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/globalist) use the term “globalist” as a dog whistle (https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/globalist) meaning Jewish.) The Republican candidate has (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008294) promoted (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008295) his guest spots on social media. [twit stands u[p to globalists]
moore has been one of Scheuer’s favorite guests, and the host has repeatedly praised him:
During a show (https://rumble.com/vq4oqe-wv-treasurer-riley-moore-threatens-to-leave-big-banks-over-discrimination-a.html) about Moore threatening to “leave big banks overdiscrimination against oil companies,” Scheuer told (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008296) him, “I think it's tremendously important what you're doing, sir, and I hope we can support it a little bit by having you on.”
Regarding perceived enemies, Scheuer told (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008297) him, “We should have more people in the country like you, sir, who's willing to put a bull's eye on their back, because you're fighting the good fight and it needs to be fought.”
Scheuer said (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008299) to him: “What you're doing is fighting tyranny. And I can't think of a stronger advocate than you are of fending off those tyrants. So I wish you had — there were 49 more of you, sir.”
Scheuer also praised (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008301) him as a potential member of Congress, stating: “You’ve got a lot ofcommon sensein your head. And when you speak, people know, you know, this guy is one of us.”
Moore, in turn, has returned Scheuer’s praise.He told (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008302) the hosts during their third anniversary show: “It’s a tremendous program, and you all have done so much in three years. So I'm just glad to be able to pop on here periodically and be part of the win.”
He has also praised the feedback he gets when appearing on Scheuer’s podcast, noting (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008303) that he received a “tremendous” response after one appearance, which included calls to his office and messages on social media. He told (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008297) Scheuer that “the more that I do, the more detractors I get, but the more support I also get from programs like this, and I truly appreciate it.”
He has additionally asked Scheuer’s audience for donations, saying (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4008305) on his most recent appearance: “Look, just thanks again for having me on. And to your listening audience, you know, look, we'd love any support you could throw our way. MooreforWV.com is the website. That's M-O-O-R-E-F-O-R-W-V dot com, MooreforWV.com. Sign up for our list, support us in any way that you can because I'm going to be going in there really ready, guns ablazing, ready to fight, and I need all the support I can get.”
Media Matters recently reported (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/virulent-antisemite-tells-jeanine-pirro-2nd-amendment-needed-take-care-these-vermin-who) that Fox’s Jeanine Pirro had appeared on Scheuer’s program as well. During her appearance, Scheuer told the Fox News host that prior elections had been “rigged” and he thanks God that “the Second Amendmentremains in the Constitution because I don't know how else totake care of these vermin.”
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...Scheuer supports the assassinations of U.S. political leaders and Democrats
Scheuer wrote (https://web.archive.org/web/20230316041504/https://www.non-intervention2.com/2021/10/03/the-choice-liquidate-u-s-tyrants-or-join-aussie-brit-canuck-and-kiwi-slaves/): “Fauci, Gates, Birx, the Bidens, Harris, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bushes, and most media are all direct descendants of Mao Tse Tung, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Margaret Sanger, Adolph Hitler, and all UN leaders. … It is time to rid the United States of these depraved, murdering tyrants and their allies by any means that will permanently terminate their ability to harm anyone. Praise God for the 450 million firearms now in the hands of the increasingly poisoned and persecuted citizenry.”
Scheuer urged (https://web.archive.org/web/20200903082349/https://www.non-intervention2.com/2020/09/02/mr-president-make-israel-prove-itself-an-ally-that-is-worth-a-damn/) the “assassination” of George Soros, writing that if Israel refuses to kill him for the United States, the U.S. Marines should.
Scheuer suggested (https://web.archive.org/web/20220127215655/https://www.non-intervention2.com/2022/01/12/the-anti-defamation-league-preaching-equality-seeking-tyrannical-jewish-american-supremacy/) that Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt will get “retribution” for his support of Soros, writing: “Come retribution … and it is, God willing, coming soon.”
Scheuer wrote (https://web.archive.org/web/20220826221127/https://www.non-intervention2.com/2022/08/26/of-assassins-traitors-and-slavers/): “How much better would all of us be today, if the U.S. Air Force had staged simultaneous bombing strikes on the WEF’s [World Economic Forum’s] Davos Conference and the UN just as the last WEF meeting was occurring, with follow-on Warthog raids to make sure as few as possible of the gangsters were left alive amongst the rubble.”
Scheuer suggested (https://web.archive.org/web/20191208214210/https://www.non-intervention2.com/2019/12/07/those-who-do-not-believe-qanon-will-be-mighty-surprised/), as the Daily Beast also previously reported (https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-scheuer-hunted-bin-laden-for-cia-now-he-wants-americans-dead), that numerous political leaders should be executed. His list included Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton. He wrote: “Personally, I would prefer immediate and lethal, post-trial punishment –by loyal-citizen firing squads chosen by lottery – but will stand by any decision that is supported by the majority of loyal citizens.”
Additionally, as the Daily Beast previously reported (https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-scheuer-hunted-bin-laden-for-cia-now-he-wants-americans-dead), Scheuer said on his podcast: “The only thing I would be upset about if it came to war is that not enough Democrats would get killed.”
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Jeanine Pirro’s New Book Title Gets Punished On Twitter
The Fox News personality's "Crimes Against America" drew a withering response on social media.
By
Lee Moran
May 16, 2023,
|Updated May 16, 2023
Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro on Monday teased the release of her new book, and the criticism came fast on Twitter.
“Crimes Against America” will be released later this month by Winning Team Publishing, a company co-founded by Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
Winning Team published Donald Trump’s recent “Letters to Trump” and will release election-denier and failed Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s new book in June.
Pirro has on air dismissed the coronavirus pandemic, described immigrant children as a “lower level of human being,” claimed immigrants bring “all kinds of diseases” into the U.S. and once ended a guest’s interview after they praised President Joe Biden.
She is also named in a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit from voting system company Smartmatic over false allegations made about the 2020 election.
The promotional material for Pirro’s book promises “an unmatched indictment against Joe Biden, his administration, and far-left ideologues who have sought to change our way of life by fundamentally transforming America as we know it.”
It also bills the book as “a must-read for any American who wishes to preserve our Republic for future generations!”
But critics on Twitter vehemently disagreed:
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Jun 7, 2023Pirro, who co-hosts "The Five" on Fox News Channel, has been on a tour to promote her new book, " Crimes Against America: The Left's Takedown of Our Republic ." Winning Team Publishing, Pirro's publisher, told Semafor that the book's author was "prohibited from speaking at Turning Point USA, church services, and various other events."
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Jun 11, 2023Broadcast commentator Jeanine Pirro, a former New York district attorney and judge, has written her eighth book titled "Crimes Against America: The Left's Takedown of Our Republic.". It ...
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Jun 7, 2023Last year, Fox News took Pirro's popular weekend show off the air and put her on the lame show "The Five". Now, Faux News is preventing Pirro from promoting her book . FOX is just another arm of the Facist Democrats. They don't want Judge Jeanine speaking at religious functions. Screw FOX.
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after former President Donald Trump was indicted for his alleged mishandling of highly classified documents, right-wing media has gone into a tailspin to defend Trump from the charges while accusing Democrats of committing similar offenses.
With this indictment, Trump has become (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-espionage-act-what-might-it-mean-donald-trump-2023-06-11/) “the most high-profile person to ever face criminal charges under the Espionage Act.” The post-World War 1 legislation (https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3601538-what-is-the-espionage-act/) makes the mishandling of sensitive government documents that concern national defense illegal (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793), and has been used to prosecute whistleblowers such as Reality Winner (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/reality-winner-nsa-sentence.html) and Daniel Ellsberg (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/13/daniel-ellsberg-interview-pentagon-papers-50-years) since its passing.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump under the section of the law that prohibits (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/06/09/espionage-act-what-to-know-about-the-century-old-law-trumps-being-charged-under/?sh=78f38c973f2f) unauthorized possession of top-secret national defense information and makes it a crime to “wilfully [retain]” that information or fail to “deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it.”
The former president’s allies have attempted to divert attention from the severity of his charges by comparing (https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-clinton-classified-documents-republican-claims-7681bc9807ecd8bc37fd3f39b9756cc7) alleged violations of the Espionage Act by Democrats, including former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and President Joe Biden.
The FBI, however, determined that by using her private email, Clinton did not intend to break the law and therefore did not act with “wilful retention or obstruction.”
After another investigation into classified documents at Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, residence, the FBI found that “no evidence has emerged to suggest that anyone intentionally moved classified documents or tried to impede the FBI from recovering them.” Although there are many fair criticisms of the Espionage Act and its constitutionality (https://theintercept.com/2023/03/30/julian-assange-congress-rashida-tlaib/), Trump was not acting as a reporter or whistleblower by allegedly showing top-secret documents to civilians like Kid Rock (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kid-rock-video-maps-b2355972.html).
In the days since his indictment was released, right-wing media have attempted to cast doubt on what charges Trump should face, citing the Presidential Records Act as a more applicable framework and claiming that the suit against the former president should therefore be a civil one.
Following his presidential defeat, Trump took 15 boxes of documents (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/national-archives-says-trump-took-15-boxes-white-house-records-florida-rcna15260) that fell under the Presidential Records Act and belonged to the national archivist with him to Mar-a-Lago. The 1978 act states (https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/presidential-records-act#::text=In%201978%2C%20Congress%20passed%20the,the%20end%20of%20the%20administration.) that “any records created or received by the President as part of his constitutional, statutory, or ceremonial duties are the property of the United States government and will be managed by NARA at the end of the administration.” However, Trump also had 11 tranches of documents (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/8/13/23304194/the-espionage-act-trump-documents-mar-a-lago) with varying classification markings, and did not return all these records, thus raising concerns related to the Espionage Act and prompting the search of Mar-a-Lago.
In a Reuters article about the indictment, lawyer Bradley Moss was cited arguing that the Presidential Records Act argument does not hold water (https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/donald-trump-presidential-records-act-clintons-sock-drawer-defense-2023-06-09/) because “the question of whether the documents were personal or presidential records is beside the point." Moss was also quoted pointing out that “the records at issue in this indictment still have classification markings and contain information relating to the national defense” and are therefore being rightfully examined under the framework of the Espionage Act.
Right-wing figures argue that the Espionage Act is the wrong framework under which to charge Trump, suggest the Presidential Records Act instead:
As a guest on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier, Trump attorney Jesse Binnall (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007072) argued that “Congress has decided to make presidents and former presidents specifically subject to [the Presidential Records Act] rather than Espionage Act” and that “Jack Smith's team has it completely legally wrong by charging crimes that quite frankly don't apply.”
On Fox News’ The Five, Jeanine Pirro (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007074) called Jack Smith a “loser prosecutor,Jack Smith, who has been slapped down by the United States Supreme Court” and accused him of having a “political agenda” and said the case is “all over the Presidential Records Act, which is a civil suit.” She later whined that “what they do is they put out this narrative indictment, ‘This is astory of wrongdoing, national defense, and let's put an espionage, we’ve got to tie it into the Russia collusion.’”
Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007079) joined Fox News’ Hannity to insist that there are “two systems of justice. … One for Donald Trump and one for everybody else,” claiming that “Garland chose to bastardize the law [ by raiding Trump's home and then seeking an indictment.”
As a guest on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime, Article III Project founder Mike Davis (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007077)also suggested that “the Presidential Records Act, not the Espionage Act, applies.” Davis later said, “You know, I doubt a uniparty judge is going to go along with that, and so this will probably have to get resolved by the Supreme Court,” calling the potential charge a “bogus conviction.”
Right-wing figures allege that Democrats have committed comparable offenses without being criminally prosecuted:
Fox News host Mark Levin (https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1667932664286830592) said Biden, former Vice President Mike Pence, and Hillary Clinton “clearly violated the Espionage Act,” bemoaning the fact that “None of them were criminally charged.”
Freshly-resigned (https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/09/trump-loses-two-lawyers-just-hours-after-being-indicted-00101263) Trump lawyer Jim Trusty (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007071) argued on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle that the Espionage Act was “not in play when Hillary bleached 30,000 emails that were under subpoena,” also claiming that the prosecution has a “whole bunch of rotating theories because they can’t find the facts they want.”
An op-ed for The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/08/democrats-indictment-frenzy-isnt-just-about-taking-out-trump-its-about-eliminating-wrongthink/) claimed that if “taking documents home from the White House is a crime,” there would have been a DOJ investigation of “Biden and his classified documents.” The piece went on, claiming that the case is an example of the “deep state” targeting “dissenters” like Trump and a universal, presumably conservative, “you.”
Several right-wing personalities claimed ill intent or misguided thinking motivated Trump’s indictment:
Turning Point USA’s Danny De Urbina (https://twitter.com/dannydeurbina/status/1666572064596058112) tweeted, “The DOJ indicting Trump under the Espionage Act after they literally spied on him as a private citizen is the ultimate gaslight.”
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board (https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-indictment-classified-documents-jack-smith-mar-a-lago-biden-justice-department-81591082?mod=djemalertNEWS) published an op-ed questioning the indictment, saying that the “charges are a destructive intervention into the 2024 election” and that “the Justice Department has taken a perilous path” by indicting Trump. The board also wrote that while Trump may have been “cavalier with classified documents, Mr. Trump did not accept a bribe or betray secrets to Russia.”
Rogan O'Handley (https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1667284207817588736) (who operates the right-wing social media account DC Draino) argued that the initial DOJ and FBI aid of Mar-a-Lago was “so they could steal back evidence of their spying on President Trump in the Crossfire Hurricane documents,” also alleging that the indictment is “all a coverup.”
A Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/10/trump-indictment-espionage-danger-democracy/) op-ed by right-wing columnist Gary Abernathy pushed back on the indictment, saying that while there was not a “good excuse” for Trump to keep sensitive documents, “bringing charges related to the possession of classified documents against a current or former president for anything short of colluding with our enemies or selling them on the black market is unnecessary, unwise and destructive to democracy.”
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On May 30, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro joined the Christian nationalist show FlashPoint for an interview where she pushed Christian nationalist rhetoric about a supposed “takedown of religion,” framed American Christians as increasingly under attack from “transgender nonsense,” and announced that she will be at the show's in-person “tent revival” event in June.
FlashPoint, a show that Rolling Stone recently described (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-end-church-restrictions-politics-1234728218/) as “a rising media platform for Christian nationalists,” airs twice weekly on The Victory Channel’s TV and streaming channels, including on Rumble. The show is helmed by a panel of regular contributors (https://genebailey.com/pages/flashpoint) who are longtime (https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/11/05/lance-wallnau-mastriano-christian-prophets/) Christian nationalist figures and self-proclaimed “prophets,” including pro-Trump “prophets” Lance Wallnau (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/lance-wallnau-doug-mastriano-christian-dominion-1234602214/)and Hank Kunneman (https://twitter.com/ChristnNitemare/status/1389982200632954884?s=20). Wallnau and Kunneman often (https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/lance-wallnau/) push (https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/hank-kunneman/) hard-right politics and make apocalyptic predictions about political opponents. In the last few months, Wallnau has called Biden the “antichrist (https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1514617754443202560?s=20&t=n4sAc3ke2z6T_OPBjeS3CA),” referred to opponents of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill as the “trans taliban (https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1507354082184474624?s=20),” andwarned (https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lance-wallnau-warns-that-god-will-soon-start-killing-those-who-are-persecuting-trump/) that God may soon start killing those who are “persecuting” Trump, while Kunneman said (https://www.salon.com/2022/05/02/behind-church-doors-evangelicals-are-quietly-fueling-big-lie/#::text=Later%20during%20the,a%20%22demonic%20agenda.%22) last year that Biden should be in prison for “treason” and a “demonic agenda.”
Christian nationalism, which contends (https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/05/19/christian-nationalism-religion-politics/) that the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian nation and should be governed by right-wing Christian beliefs, has been on the rise (https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156642544/more-than-half-of-republicans-support-christian-nationalism-according-to-a-new-s) in Republican politics (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/us/christian-nationalism-politicians.html) and among right-wing (https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-increasingly-leaning-right-wing-christian) media (https://www.mediamatters.org/blazetv/allie-beth-stuckey-teeters-between-culture-war-crusader-and-fundamentalist-christian) figures (https://momentmag.com/deep-dive-clay-clark-reawaken-america/). FlashPoint has seemingly leveraged this wave of Christian nationalism to attract more mainstream conservative media figures as guests, including Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk (https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa-increasingly-leaning-right-wing-christian#::text=Kirk%20has%20also%20repeatedly%20appeared%20alongside%20Wallnau%20in%20interviews%20and%20at%20in%2Dperson%20events%20for%20Kenneth%20Copeland%E2%80%99s%20right%2Dwing%20Christian%20network%20The%20Victory%20Channel%2C%20where%20Wallnau%20serves%20as%20a%20%E2%80%9Cregular%E2%80%9D%C2%A0for%20its%20panel%20show%20FlashPoint.), former President Donald Trump (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-end-church-restrictions-politics-1234728218/), and now, Fox’s Jeanine Pirro.
Pirro, who currently co-hosts Fox’s top-rated program The Five, appeared on the May 30 edition of FlashPoint, where the host (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4006497), megapastor Gene Bailey (https://twitter.com/flashpointarmy/status/1656889782495059975?s=20), noted that his audience is “mainly conservative Christians” and that the show is not “fair and balanced,” adding, “We're the — way to the right of center. We’re unabashedly bold about who we are.” (Unlike Fox’s former motto “fair and balanced (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/media/fox-news-fair-and-balanced.html).”) The host asked Pirro: “When you see the left and what they’re doing, what is it you think … our audience needs to know that you feel like most of America doesn't understand about this current situation?”
Pirro warned the audience of a “takedown of religion” and erosion of “Judeo-Christian ethics” in America, claiming, “America is moving so far from that foundation that we are in a dangerous point that every person who is a person of religion or a person of God understands the inherent dangers of what is happening in America today.” Pirro elaborated that due to moving away from religion, “we are flirting with the kind of destiny that only destroyed nations and fallen empires find themselves in.” During the interview, Pirro also framed Christians as persecuted and warned that “people of faith need to worry about not just what's being taught in schools in terms of transgender nonsense, but what is happening in our society today against religion." [vid]
gENE BAILEY (HOST): When you see the left and what they're doing, what is it that you think — now our audience,Judge, is mainly conservative Christians — we don't say we're fair and balanced. We say we're the — way to the right of center. We're unabashedly bold about who we are. What is it that our audience needs to know that you feel like most of America doesn't understand about this current situation?
JEANINE PIRRO (GUEST): Well, you know, I think that — look, this country was found on the Judeo-Christian ethics.We, you know, when I was the judge in my courtroom above my bench, it said “In God we trust.” I think that America is moving so far from that foundation that we are in a dangerous point that every person who is a person of religion or a person of God understands the inherent dangers of what is happening in America today.
We are flirting with the kind of destiny that only destroyed nations and fallen empires find themselves in. And so that's why I wrote the book Crimes Against America. What the left is doing to our children in schools and to Americans across the board, and especially to those believers, people who believed in God and are faith-driven, is it is destroying them.
And, you know, we saw it with the Dobbs decision. When our own Department of Justice would not follow its own rules of making an arrest of anyone who is parading or protesting in front of a Supreme Court justice’s home in the hope of getting them to change their opinion. Not one of those people was arrested, but you could rest assured that everyone, everyone who was involved in any way — and some of them who were clearly innocent and found to be not guilty by juries later — who got involved in any kind of pro-choice objection ended up being arrested and ended up being prosecuted.
But any of the pro-life centers or the pregnancy centers, any of the attacks on them were not even — they were not even investigated. And so, when you look at what is happening, the takedown of religion in America, it forebodes a very difficult future.
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And I think that people of faith need to worry about not just what's being taught in schools in terms of transgender nonsense, but what is happening in our society today against religion.
Pirro was also recently announced as a guest for an in-person FlashPoint Live “tent revival” (https://fplive.govictory.com/) event next week. Past FlashPoint Live events have made headlines for their overt (https://www.newsweek.com/evangelical-christians-viral-video-america-flashpoint-atlanta-god-1724670) Christian nationalism and for appearances by high-profile Republican politicians such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). One of FlashPoint’s regular guests, right-wing apostle Dutch Sheets (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/new-apostolic-reformation-mtg-mastriano-dutch-sheets-1234584952/), prayed over Greene at one such event and insisted she was “covered in the blood of Jesus (https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1543258650311069698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1543258650311069698%7Ctwgr%5E8cc6c0feb3643517d7696b2245949bbc5500c287%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpolitics-features%2Ftrump-end-church-restrictions-politics-1234728218%2F).”
In addition to the Christian nationalist figures such as Wallnau and Kunneman appearing at FlashPoint Live’s June 8-9 event in Ohio along with Pirro, the lineup includes actor Jim Caviezel, who recently openly embraced (https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1659272556795371551?s=20) the QAnon conspiracy.
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pirro’s interview on FlashPoint and upcoming “tent revival” appearance are just two examples of Fox’s apparent connections to the Christian nationalist movement. Fox has regularly hosted (https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/center-renewing-america-preparing-next-republican-administration-govern) Russ Vought, the Christian nationalist figure who is reportedly advising (https://www.mediamatters.org/social-security/house-gop-reportedly-relying-christian-nationalist-and-right-wing-media-darling) Republicans on how to gut the federal aid programs, and the network has also propped up (https://www.mediamatters.org/trinity-broadcasting-network/far-right-christian-media-figure-kirk-cameron-trying-sow-conflict) a harassment campaign against libraries that pushed the movement’s talking points. Additionally, since November, Fox Business has been profiting (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-business/fox-business-airing-weekly-sermons-christian-nationalist-pastor-who-has-called) from weekly sermons from a Christian nationalist pastor airing on the network as paid programming.
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HANNITY (HOST): We get to the 2020 election and what happened? They had Hunter Biden's laptop since December of 2019. They verified it according to John Solomon [NOTE NO ID AFFILIATION] in the spring of 2020.
But yet, we had FBI agents that were meeting weekly in the months leading up to the 2020 election pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story by telling them directly, "You're likely going to be the victim of a misinformation campaign. It may be about Hunter. It may be about Joe Biden. You better be ready." But they knew the laptop story was coming and they knew Rudy Giuliani had a copy of it.
JEANINE PIRRO (GUEST): Well, you know what the problem is with that? The problem is that is election interference. That is a crime. It's not only a constitutional violation of the First Amendment and the right of the press to be able to discuss things that are in the news. But they literally interfered with an election. We know that by the polls that came out afterwards that indicated that people would have changed their votes.
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-handling-jeanine-pirros-election-conspiracy-theories-reveals-full-extent-its fuckery
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the latest developments in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News unfolded in a New York City courtroom on Wednesday. Media Matters for America senior fellow Matthew Gertz obtained copies of slides containing previously unseen conversations between Fox employees about the network's hosts, who despite management's misgivings were permitted to peddle former President Donald Trump's bogus allegations about the 2020 election.
Gertz live-tweeted the drama (https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1641119156039827456?s=20).
For example, Fox Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Scott reportedly wrote in an email to anchor Eric Shawn in December 2020 that "this has to stop now... this is bad business... the audience is furious and we are just feeding them material." Scott also stated that November that "I can't keep defending these reporters who don't understand our viewers and how to handle stories... We lost 25k subs from FOX NATION."
READ MORE: Jeanine Pirro admits Americans 'voted on issues that weren’t the issues we thought they were voting on' (https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/jeanine-pirro-werent-the-issues)
One personality, "Judge" Jeanine Pirro, was railed against by production staff in November 2020 over her militant defense of Trump's baseless claims that the contest was "rigged and stolen" by President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
Pirro's scheduled monologue was "rife w conspiracy theories and bs and is yet another example why this woman should never be on live television," her executive producer complained to Fox's top brass.
Gertz noted that "Fox subsequently promoted Pirro, making her a co-host of the LIVE panel show The Five."
He added (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-producers-thought-jeanine-pirro-was-nuts-then-network-promoted-her-its-top-rated-show) that according to Dominion's legal filings, David Clark, Fox's senior vice president of Weekend News, "did not believe Jeanine Pirro was actually a 'credible source of news,' even as he understood that 'viewers rely on' Pirro 'to be a credible source.'"
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-producers-thought-jeanine-pirro-was-nuts-then-network-promoted-her-its-top-rated-show
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GERALDO RIVERA (CO-HOST): Jeanine, why would George Soros -- Joe Rogan is so popular, he has millions of followers -- he says, "Why would George Soros want cities to fall apart and crime to flourish?"
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JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): What I can tell you, is that he is absolutely behind the destruction of law and order in America, which is creating chaos and anarchy.
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It is an email from yourself toJeanine Pirroat a Gmail account on 24 January 1st, 2021.The substance of the email appears to be the same or similar to the 25 body of the memo that we were just reviewing. And the subject line states, 62 1 "Constitutional option." 2 Did you also send your analysis of the option for the Vice President at the 3 January 6th joint session of Congress to Ms. Pirro? 4 A Pursuant to my advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 5 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 6 7 Q A Who is Jeanine Pirro? Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 8 right to assert the Fifth Amendment. 9 10 11 Q I believe Ms. Pirro is a FOX News host or was at the time. Why were you sending this analysis to a FOX News host? A Pursuant to advice of counsel, I will invoke my constitutionally protected 12 right to assert the Fifth Amendment
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-host-claims-biden-administration-hopes-rescind-title-42-goal-changing-america-forever
JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): The amazing thing is, they're saying, “Oh, no, Title 42 is keeping people out. And -- but even if -- when Title 42 goes away, because it's no longer a pandemic, the truth is that we're still going to keep it closed.”
Are you kidding me? You're fighting in the Supreme Court to get Title 42 out so that they can come in. We're seeing people in foil there, those foil blankets, tens of thousands of people, half a million in one sector since October. This country is being invaded.
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For the second time this week, Fox News host "Judge" Jeanine Pirro defended hate speech. The first instance occurred on Tuesday night's edition of The Five, when Pirro declared that antisemitic remarks made by disgraced rapper Kanye West and Holocaust-denying white supremacist Nick Fuentes were "repugnant by another standard."
Pirro's reasoning was that free speech is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. While that is true, the First Amendment does not shield a person from the consequences of what they say – a lesson that West has learned the hard way.
Nevertheless, Pirro made it clear that she believes that hatemongers like West and Fuentes should be allowed to post their vitriol on Twitter – a view shared by the platform's owner Elon Musk (https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zm9q/elon-musk-twitter-nazis-white-supremacy), who earlier this week lifted the site's long-standing ban on COVID-19 misinformation.
READ MORE: 'Repugnant versus another standard': Jeanine Pirro stands up for antisemites returning to Twitter (https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/jeanine-pirro-defends-antisemites-twitter/)
Then, on Thursday evening, Pirro doubled down on her stance.
"So what do you think about free speech, and Elon Musk, and Twitter – wait, wait wait. It's one thing to be anti-woke. But it's not anti-woke to be absolutely repulsed by Kanye West praising [Adolf] Hitler, or Nick Fuentes being lavishly celebrated at Mar-a-Lago. That's not woke," correspondent Geraldo Rivera explained to Pirro.
"Here's the bottom line. If you don't like what someone's saying, you don't have the right to tell them they can't close their mouth and they cannot speak. The United States Supreme Court in Brandenburg versus Ohio (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/395/444/#::text=Ohio%2C%20395%20U.S.%20444%20%281969%29&text=A%20state%20may%20not%20forbid,incite%20or%20produce%20such%20action.) – I go to the highest court in the land – says no matter how repulsive the speech is, America was founded on the concept of free speech. Hate speech is protected. I'm tired of saying it," Pirro said to her fellow panelists on The Five.
"These people like [Massachusettes Democratic Senator] Elizabeth Warren who says it's wrong or offensive that one human being should decide. Well, I don't like that Tim Cook is taking down the AirDrop for the protesters in China. That's one guy. You know, it goes on and on. That's not up to us. The thing that makes America different from every other country is that we have the right of freedom of speech which means we have freedom of thought. We are not a fascist nation," Pirro continued.
READ MORE: 'Chickens are coming home to roost': Nick Fuentes contradicts Ye’s campaign manager over Mar-a-Lago dinner (https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/nick-fuentes-trump-2658804180/)
Because of the First Amendment's provision, there is a growing debate over how much power social media giants like Twitter and Facebook should have over moderating their user-generated content even though they are not a part of the federal government. But as Rivera noted, some speech is downright dangerous.
"Are we free to say Jews will not replace us?" he asked, referring to the chants by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
"You're free to say whatever you want. I can slap you if I feel like it, but then I'll be prosecuted. Okay? Here's the bottom line. You don't like it, that doesn't mean the man or the woman is prevented from saying it. My god, how far have we gotten from the founding of this nation?" Pirro wondered.
"Alright," Rivera added. "Enough about Kanye."
READ MORE: Chasten Buttigieg stunned over new DHS warning lists LGBTQ people as 'targets of potential violence' (https://www.alternet.org/2022/12/chasten-buttigieg-dhs-warning-lgbtq/)
Watch below via Media Matters for America (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-host-gives-passionate-argument-favor-allowing-open-nazism-and-white-supremacy) or at this link (https://www.alternet.org/2022/12/are-we-free-to-say).
https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/jeanine-pirro-defends-antisemites-twitter/
https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/foxs-jeanine-pirro-warns-violent-retaliation-republicans-reaction-joe-bidens-speech
semi-fascists?
https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/fox-news-host-defends-elon-musk-potentially-reinstating-twitter-accounts-white (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/fox-news-host-defends-elon-musk-potentially-reinstating-twitter-accounts-white)
November 29, 2022, edition of Fox News' The Five
JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): Jessica, Twitter is a private company. Where does the government get off saying, "We're going to monitor this and we're going to watch it" and just, from a criminal justice perspective, you investigate crimes, you don't investigate people and companies.
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JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): It'll be interesting to see when all of these people who have been banned, and I know Kanye was only suspended for a couple weeks because of his anti-Semitic tweet, but it will be interesting to see how far Musk will go in terms of restoring accounts to people who are really repugnant. And I'm sure he won't bring on, you know -- bring back Nick Fuentes or an Alex Jones. But that will be --
PIRRO: Repugnant versus another standard. I mean --
TARLOV: What? No. Holocaust deniers are just straight-up repugnant.
PIRRO: Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment and the Constitution and the United States Supreme Court.
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JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): The first thing that you've got to do is recognize that, not just McDonald's -- Caterpillar, Boeing, Citadel -- they're all leaving Chicago. I love Chicago, I lived in Chicago, it is one of my all time favorite cities, it's beautiful. And it's been destroyed.
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This city is -- Chicago is descending into anarchy. And there's pain, and there's loss, and there's suffering. Instead of playing these nonsense political back and forth, why don't you go out into the community and find out what you can do for the people who are suffering? And by the way, part of your job, Mayor, is to make sure that the economy is good. And the one thing you don't do is trash employers, especially big employers, in your city.
So you're not worried about crime because you're making great progress and, you know, you want to fight with the business leaders. I mean, Chicago is a mess right now. And it's because we've got people and politicians like this woman who have no idea how to run a city, no idea how to stop crime.
LISA KENNEDY MONTGOMERY (CO-HOST): I actually -- I disagree with you there. She runs the city into the ground.
brad Reed @ Raw Story (https://www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirro-fox-news-2658150477/): Leaked email shows ‘anguished’ Fox News producer begged to keep Jeanine Pirro off the air over election lies.
Jeanine Pirro says the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago was “a blatantly political move” meant to influence the midterm election
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-jeanine-pirro-says-she-supports-russias-arrest-american-basketball-star-brittney
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PERINO (CO-HOST): I am a little concerned -- I was thinking today, you know, the Fourth of July is Monday. How long are we going to be allowed to celebrate it?
GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Some people won't.[ who and why? by whom?]
JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): That's a great question. Some people are talking about it now.
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JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): And I find this so incredible, that Biden is saying that the teachers are really the victims here. Teachers are being unfairly targeted, that's a quote from Biden, in the culture wars. Are you kidding me? The teachers are the ones who said the parents were the terrorists and the Biden administration and the FBI ran with it.
So, here is what I consider to be the bottom line — that this is a new world order. We're now going to bring in the children into part of the government. They are ours, and we are going to decide what to teach them and you parents, we are not going to tell you about that — about it, but if you find out about it, it is still none of your business.
husband pardoned by trump? for?
https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/jeanine-pirro-smear-cassidy-hutchinson/
merlot? = elite?
republicans and right-wing media pundits have been falling over themselves trying to rationalize and discredit ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's blockbuster Tuesday testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
Scores of conservatives from Rudy Giuliani to Roger Stone and even former President Donald Trump himself have desperately tried to paint Hutchinson as a nobody and a liar, despite the fact that she was the assistant to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and worked just steps from the Oval Office. Hutchinson's detractors have also steadfastly refused to provide sworn statements, preventing their accusations from being properly vetted.
The latest attempt to smear Hutchinson occurred on Wednesday afternoon when Fox News host Jeanine Pirro claimed that multiple unnamed individuals supposedly from the White House told her that Hutchinson was never anywhere near Trump.
READ MORE: Columnist tears apart Trump’s ‘preposterously weak’ response to Cassidy Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony (https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/columnist-tears-apart-trumps-respons/)
"Number two, she talked about hearsay," Pirro said of Hutchinson. "Now I talked to two sources today from the White House at that time. They both say that she was so low-level. She wanted people to believe that she was in the center of the room when major things were being discussed. She was not that person. That's factually untrue."
Watch below via Acyn:[twt]
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-host-every-one-us-who-uses-oil-russia-complicit-atrocities-committed-ukraine
GERALDO RIVERA (CO-HOST): I'll say this also: Any business person, any company that buys Russian oil is complicit. You are aiding and abetting a monstrous war criminal. You are just as guilty.
JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): Does that include America? That includes America?
RIVERA: It includes every one of us.
PIRRO: America?
RIVERA: Every one of us.
PIRRO: America?
RIVERA: If we buy -- if we buy -- I don't know about the nations -- but, generally, but I'll talk about any business person in America or anywhere else who buys Russian oil, you are complicit. Your hands are -- there's blood in that oil. You may get a bargain on it. It will haunt you forever. Turn your back on it. This -- this has to be seen in the context of what it is. This man is attempting to wipe out the Ukrainian race.
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Revealed: Fox's Judge Jeanine orchestrated payments for ‘command centers’ that could blow up Trump’s defense
Travis Gettys and Raw Story November 03, 2021
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro orchestrated campaign payments for 'command centers' at DC hotels that could blow up Donald Trump's executive privilege claims.
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and the city's former police chief Bernie Kerik had been paying for hotel rooms and travel related to their efforts to overturn Trump's election loss, but the pair grew concerned by early December as the bills piled up, reported the Washington Post.
"How do I know I'm gonna get my money back?" Kerik thought at the time, as he recently told the newspaper.
Kerik knew that Giuliani hadn't been reimbursed for his expenses or paid for his services, but their friend Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host beloved by the twice-impeached one-term president, called Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and asked her to help them out.
McDaniel spoke to Kerik by phone but refused to give him money, and instead recommended that he ask the Trump campaign to reimburse his expenses, according to the former police chief and a GOP official.
The campaign cut its first check to Kerik in mid-December with Trump's approval, according to a former senior campaign official, and eventually paid more than $225,000 for hotel rooms and suites at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., that served as a "command center" for efforts to overturn the election results ahead of Jan. 6 riots.
Those payments, according to legal experts, could undermine Trump's claims of executive privilege over documents and testimony related to the U.S. Capitol riots sought by the House select committee investigating the insurrection.
"[This] further undermines a wildly broad assertion of executive privilege," said Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate prosecutor. "Executive privilege is typically limited to the protection of communications involving a president's official duties — not to those relating to personal or political campaign matters."
Former Justice Department official John Yoo, who advised former vice president Mike Pence's staff that there was no legal basis to deny the certification of Joe Biden's election win, agreed that the payments could upend Trump's defense.
"If he acts as a president, he gets these things we talk about — executive privilege and immunity," Yoo said. "But if he's acting as a candidate, he's deprived of all of those protections."
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after spending months pushing conspiracy theories about voter fraud, Lou Dobbs is reportedly out of a job.
"Fox News has canceled 'Lou Dobbs Tonight,' the program hosted by television's staunchest supporter of Donald Trump and of his assertions of voter fraud in the 2020 election, The Times has learned. Dobbs' program, which airs twice nightly at 5 and 7 p.m. Eastern on the Fox Business Network, will have its final airing Friday, according to a Fox News representative who confirmed the cancellation," the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
"Dobbs, 75, remains under contract at Fox News but he will in all likelihood not appear on the company's networks again. In addition to his Fox Business Network program, he occasionally turned up on the Fox News Channel as a commentator," the LA Times reported. "The cancellation comes a day after voting software company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox News and three of its hosts — Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro.The company claims the hosts perpetuated lies and disinformation about Smartmatic's role in the election, damaging its business and reputation."
Read the full report (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-02-05/fox-news-cancels-lou-dobbs-tonight).
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Fox News airs point-by-point fact check of wild election fraud claims during 3 of network's most pro-Trump shows
President Donald Trump being interviewed by Fox News personality Maria Bartiromo, composite image.]
Elizabeth Preza December 20, 2020
Fox News this weekend is airing a stunning point-by-point fact check to claims made on programs hosted by the network's most pro-Trump voices after voting technology company Smartmatic send a 20-page legal letter demanding "a full and complete retraction of all false and defamatory statements and reports."
The segment, which features an interview with Palo Open Source Election Technology Institute voting technology expert Eddie Perez, aired on Lou Dobb's Friday show and Jeanine Pirro's Saturday show. Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo will also show the segment.
In its Dec. 10 letter to Fox News Media, Smartmatic charged the company and its hosts with waging "a concerted disinformation campaign against Smartmatic. Fox News told its millions of viewers and readers that Smartmatic was founded by [the late Venezuelan President] Hugo Chávez, that its software was designed to fix elections, and that Smartmatic conspired with others to defraud the American people and fix the 2020 U.S. election by changing, inflating, and deleting votes." The company also demanded the company "match the attention and audience targeted with the original defamatory publications."
As the Washington Post reports:
"During Friday night's fact-checking segment, the questioner asked Perez: 'Have you seen any evidence of Smartmatic sending U.S. votes to be tabulated in foreign countries?'
This appeared to be a reference to Giuliani's Nov. 12 claim on the show that with Smartmatic software, 'the votes actually go to Barcelona, Spain.' Perez responded, 'No, I'm not aware of any evidence that Smartmatic is sending U.S. votes to be tabulated in foreign countries.'"
Speaking with CNN, Perez said that while he was unaware of the nature of the interview when he spoke to Fox News about Smartmatic, it's important to clear up any confusion the network's viewers have about voting integrity in the United States.
"I felt it was important to talk to Fox News," Perez said. "Of anything potentially more important to be speaking the facts to their audience because there are a lot of consumers of Fox News that have doubts about the election."
Watch the video below:
in stunning segment, Lou Dobbs has come to Jesus moment and fact checks all the wild election conspiracy theories he’s been peddling on air. One-by-one he debunks them. Don’t expect Trump to retweet this clip. Note: Dobbs was threatened with legal action by the voting companies. twt]
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fox News suspends Jeanine Pirro’s show after ‘spat’ over airing baseless voter fraud claims: report (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/fox-news-suspends-jeanine-pirros-show-after-spat-over-airing-baseless-voter-fraud-claims-report/)
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Fox News reporter confirmed Trump's insults of fallen troops. Fox hosts are still calling the story a hoax. (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0efcf303ec486cd903e5b36843601b2acf7c538cc303eddfd6d0498b09ad391ac6828b0dffa94e21acbc4ad525617e69bd)
The new bombshell report from The Atlantic, reporting that President Donald Trump had repeatedly disparaged fallen U.S. troops as “losers” and “suckers,” has now been echoed (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0e8910349c3e470bb6c7fc1425b6d0bfef2df4926eeeab09a4d59d27928acdd5c9d2fcf2d2554c2fc998b361b4ab9e97fe) by Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin. This latest confirmation comes after Fox’s previous coverage of the story continually backed Trump’s denials.
Griffin’s reporting corroborated multiple details of The Atlantic’s article: That Trump simply didn’t want to drive to the World War I cemetery, though it was possible to do so; that he did not want wounded veterans included in his July 4, 2019, military parade, calling it “not a good look”; and that Trump maintained an obsessive hatred of the late Sen. John McCain(R-AZ) — Trump had famously insulted McCain’s history as a prisoner of war in 2015 — and opposed lowering the American flag to half-staff when McCain died in 2018. One of Griffin’s sources even added another detail: “When the president spoke about the Vietnam War, he said, ‘It was a stupid war. Anyone who went was a sucker.’”
This of course, completely contradicts Fox News' earlier coverage (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0ecdcdf1d112c56b81cf0cc41fb4d4adaea7e9571f85bf795a25da39ac5b7a0c4b95b283715687aefb74aaec9e28b80ef2), in which the network’s commentators insisted that The Atlantic article had to be completely false. (It also comes after years of Fox News ginning up fake scandals (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0e50557f39c00dc41b8a4e5270b7788d98d0c8bae2b4c1ea3e6da04c34b35e2b82e52447070b63fdeb8fa031b65d8bf250) to accuse former President Barack Obama of disrespecting the troops, everything from the "latte salute" to saying that he visited the wrong cemetary in 2010.)
Fox hosts called the story a "scam" and a "hoax" after Griffin's reporting was already public. On Saturday night, Jeanine Pirro declared (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=4ef3ac4f25bf8e0eeb4709671ef04b84b9271e1ef1c9a0be79ecc3a6cbf7aafff33602969f5ce3d4128af19f33110be06a894a66a9a34361) that it was a "perfect time for a hoax" without ever mentioning that Griffin had corroborated the report.
More interesting, though, is how Fox's news side gave more credence to Trump's denials than it did to what its own correspondent filed. Fox's flagship "straight news" program Special Report used the chyron "Fake News" when covering the story. One Fox contributor called the story an "information operation" against Trump and Fox's chief political anchor Bret Baier cast doubt on the story as well.
Media Matters' Madeline Peltz put together a timeline (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=dcba65cfb13c3e38c9d16128627f6a6300fa2d8f6d541a34600d50e9a3e40b54f49bf70b7db694bbc89af089b8eb97d66ae31335e4df350a) of how Fox threw Griffin under the bus on Friday.
It all goes to show how Fox is not a news organization (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=dcba65cfb13c3e38764b25a119375f8625eb3488d02a6cbc6ab37a7133858827e13e95ae1b81210461380b4794378dc189246dcb178e72ea).
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Trump predicts COVID-19 is a conspiracy against his dad that will ‘magically’ disappear in November
Written by Bob Brigham / Raw Story May 17, 2020
President Donald Trump’s son Eric suggested that coronavirus lockdowns were a conspiracy to keep his father from holding 2020 campaign rallies during a Saturday appearance on Fox News with Jeanine Pirro.
With America leading the world in reported coronavirus fatalities, the president’s son was focused on the 2020 campaign against former Vice President Joe Biden.
“Listen, Biden loves this,” he claimed. “They think they’re taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time.”
“So you watch, they will milk it every single day between now and November 3rd,”
“And guess what, after November 3rd, coronavirus will magically all of the sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen,” he predicted.
“They’re trying to deprive him of his greatest asset, which is the fact that the American people love him, the fact that he’s relatable, and the fact that he can go out there and draw massive crowds,” he argued.
In the segment, his claims about his father’s crowd sizes and popularity were both exaggerated.
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https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/these-pharmaceutical-companies-are-funding-spread-covid-misinformation-fox
04/10/20 4:07 PM EDT
Many pharmaceutical companies that are conducting ongoing research into COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines are among the top sponsors of the Fox News Channel,a cesspool of medical misinformation (https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/how-foxs-sean-hannity-has-downplayed-coronavirus-pandemic-america), racist fearmongering (https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-coverage-covid-19-pandemic-medically-inaccurate-malevolently-racist), and reckless speculation (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-has-promoted-hydroxychloroquine-nearly-300-times-two-week-period) that put vulnerable populations (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/opinion/coronavirus-fox-news.html) in harm’s way (https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/07/the-last-days-of-rosemarie-gabriele-pasco-countys-first-coronavirus-victim/). These companies, many of which are spending millions to research therapies and donate specialized resources that might alleviate the toll of the virus, are undermining their own work by advertising on Fox News, whose coverage of the pandemic has been described (https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/chris-hayes-fox-news-has-posed-genuine-public-health-threat) as a “genuine public health threat.”
Here’s a list of these pharmaceutical companies. You can let them know they must stop sponsoring the spread of deadly misinformation during a global pandemic.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (http://twitter.com/gsk)
GlaxoSmithKline is a U.K.-based global pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturer and a leading Fox News advertiser (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/these-are-fox-news-leading-advertisers). It has invested hundreds of millions of dollars (https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/glaxosmithkline-and-vir-aim-to-take-on-covid-19-with-antibodies-and-crispr/) into researching COVID-19 therapeutics and has partnered with the British government and AstraZeneca (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-52212777) to set up a testing facility at the University of Cambridge.
The company has run over 3,000 ads on Fox News since January 2019 and recently advertised on shows that have misinformed viewers about COVID-19, including Fox & Friends (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends) and The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton (https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1241937796165775360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1241937796165775360&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalmemo.com%2Ffox-news-must-control-its-dangerously-wacky-hosts%2F).
Pfizer Inc. (http://twitter.com/pfizer)
Pfizer is an American biopharmaceutical company and a top Fox News advertiser (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/these-are-fox-news-leading-advertisers). The company has spent hundreds of millions of dollars (https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/09/pfizer-coronavirus-testing-fall/) to scale up its manufacturing capacity to fight COVID-19 and is running multiple studies (https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/09/us/09reuters-health-coronavirus-pfizer.html) into potential therapeutics.
Pfizer has run over 2,600 ads on Fox News since January 2019.
Novartis (https://twitter.com/Novartis)
Novartis is a Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer and a Fox News advertiser. The company makes hydroxychloroquine and has promised (https://www.newsweek.com/michael-cohen-donald-trump-novartis-twitter-covid-19-1496291) to donate its entire inventory “not already allocated to existing orders and customers” to combat COVID-19. It also recently established (https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/abbvie-pledges-35-million-covid-19-disaster-relief-urges-other-companies-to-step-up) the COVID-19 Response Fund, pledging “$20 million in grants to support public health initiatives.”
The company has run nearly 1,900 ads on Fox News since January 2019. In 2020, it has advertised on shows hosted by COVID misinformers such as Maria Bartiromo (https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-anchor-maria-bartiromo-and-sen-tom-cotton-keep-pushing-coronavirus) and Laura Ingraham (https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingraham-questions-listening-public-health-experts-ending-social-distancing).
Sanofi (http://twitter.com/sanofi)
Sanofi is a multinational pharmaceutical company, a manufacturer of hydroxychloroquine (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sanofi-exclusive/exclusive-sanofi-can-produce-millions-of-doses-of-potential-coronavirus-drug-ceo-idUSKBN21K3AD), and a top advertiser (https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/these-are-sean-hannitys-leading-advertisers) on COVID misinformer Sean Hannity (https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/how-foxs-sean-hannity-has-downplayed-coronavirus-pandemic-america)’s prime-time show.
In collaboration with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi is currently testing (http://www.news.sanofi.us/2020-03-16-Sanofi-and-Regeneron-begin-global-Kevzara-R-sarilumab-clinical-trial-program-in-patients-with-severe-COVID-19) a prescription medication designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis among COVID patients in New York with the hope that the drug can alleviate fevers and aid patients with oxygen intake.
Since January 2019, Sanofi-owned brands have advertised on Fox News over 1,700 times. Besides being a top advertiser on Hannity, Sanofi has paid for programming on shows that have advocated for the premature end to social distancing guidelines (https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-death-projections-are-down-because-social-distancing-which-fox), includingThe Ingraham Angleand Fox & Friends. Previously, Sanofi dropped (https://www.france24.com/en/20170405-usa-media-advertisers-bmw-sanofi-fox-news-bill-o-reilly-factor-sexual-harassment-report) Bill O’Reilly’s now-defunct prime-time show when he was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. It remains to be seen if the company will do the same when even more is at stake.
Vanda Pharmaceuticals (https://twitter.com/vandapharma)
Vanda Pharmaceuticals is a therapeutics manufacturer based in Washington, D.C. It is currently running a clinical study (https://vandapharmaceuticalsinc.gcs-web.com/node/14056/pdf) of potential COVID treatments. The company has run 269 advertisements on Fox News since January 2019, including following Sean Hannity’s interview with President Donald Trump (https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1247707399995232257) in which Trump touted “potential cures” for coronavirus that might benefit Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Bayer (http://twitter.com/bayer)
Bayer is a multinational pharmaceutical manufacturer that also manufactures chloroquine phosphate, and it is a top advertiser on Hannity and Fox News overall. The company has made multiple (https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/bayer-preps-u-s-donation-malaria-med-chloroquine-to-help-covid-19-fight-report) pledges (https://www.media.bayer.com/baynews/baynews.nsf/id/Bayer-supports-fight-against-corona-pandemic-Spain-with-measures-totaling-approximately-EUR-1?) to donate resources to fight COVID-19 in the U.S. and Spain. It is also paying for the spread of medical misinformation by advertising on Fox News: the company has run over 3,900 ads since January 2019, including 493 since the beginning of 2020. Brands owned by Bayer that run advertisements on the network include Bayer Aspirin (https://twitter.com/bayeraspirin), Aleve (https://www.facebook.com/aleve/), Claritin (https://www.facebook.com/Claritin/), Dr. Scholl’s (https://twitter.com/DrScholls) and Alka-Seltzer (https://www.facebook.com/AlkaSeltzer/), among many others.
Gilead Sciences (https://twitter.com/GileadSciences)
Gilead Sciences is a California-based pharmaceutical research and development company that has a forthcoming study (https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/gilead-remdesivir-data-coming-soon/) of its drug Remdesivir and whether it has therapeutic properties to treat COVID-19. It has run 269 advertisements on Fox since January 2019. This year, the company advertised on shows hosted by coronavirus misinformers, including Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro (https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-downplays-talk-about-coronavirus-being-more-deadly-flu).
AstraZeneca (http://twitter.com/astrazeneca)
AstraZeneca is a multinational biopharmaceutical company that frequently advertises on Fox News.The company is currently researching (https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/articles/2020/researching-antibodies-to-target-covid-19.html) potential treatments for coronavirus using antibody therapeutics. It has also publicly committed to donating (https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020/astrazeneca-to-donate-9-million-face-masks-to-support-healthcare-workers-around-the-world-in-the-fight-against-covid-19.html) 9 million face masks to health care workers across the world. The company is also a major sponsor of programs spreading COVID-19 misinformation; since January 2019 it has run over 700 advertisements on Fox News, including on Fox & Friends, and The Five (https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-host-says-america-should-use-power-positive-thinking-beat-coronavirus).
Takeda (https://twitter.com/TakedaPharma)
Takeda is a global pharmaceutical company and a Fox News advertiser that recently announced (https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/takeda-hyperimmune-therapy-covid-19/) it is partnering with plasma companies to develop an antibody therapeutic to treat complications associated with COVID-19.It has advertised on Fox 563 times since January 2019and recently ran ads on The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton, a show that has promoted an approach to COVID-19 that runs afoul of guidance from public health experts.
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Fox News host Jeanine Pirro reportedly endorses far-right troll Laura Loomer for Congress (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/fox-news-host-jeanine-pirro-reportedly-endorses-far-right-troll-laura-loomer-congress)
12/12/19 12:29 PM EST
Tucker Carlson spread disinformation (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7bd00616b8a3b062324e95623779f05cb9eaf7c2994a36692cf051f254f49f4129fd08a9e41dcd3be27948e5c79bcd4a98a24567a9042f16) about a deadly chemical attack in Syria.
Despite network policy, Fox’s Jeanine Pirro made (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7bd00616b8a3b0627991a278cb755791f76d3eb56871c1e1385da682f670a353f29484868cacd0f2d517316935a02a803637f9ab9d6b2d4e) a “surprise” GOP fundraising appearance.
Fox & Friends lauded (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7bd00616b8a3b062c3974714e8c28c4c30fb0fe58bf7575e630edd51181a4cc24772f0df3d7e8ed2afd11db38b12b32ac75187dbf32f4eba) Rob Schneider for “standing up for free speech” without noting he was pushing anti-vaccination conspiracy theories.
Tomi Lahren condemned (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7bd00616b8a3b062150a4be7582257425680cf2848254409112043c0e65c456685aaab6b42b66fd6b4bd5b3d26dc773cb00826feb382e431) the students who booed Melania Trump: “Can you imagine if this were Michelle Obama?” Yes we can! (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7bd00616b8a3b062be3f4d646284093782e1faadf58d1acf561d562644c5566d2278d4d7463e650a8c2b809247ff8b742f41643a96ba2df3)
Sean Hannity told (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=7bd00616b8a3b062ee5f8b703c0b8ec4d07215421b3b3e488d6905970aae5c5b7b9f7671a0b81301f48577e55cb699709e29ee70cf85251a) disgraced former host Bill O'Reilly to “go back on Fox”
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Pirro says that the CIA is “attempting a coup against the United States president” (https://www.mediamatters.org/trump-impeachment-inquiry/foxs-jeanine-pirro-says-cia-attempting-coup-against-united-states)
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https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/fox-host-jeanine-pirro-will-financially-help-trump-keynoting-jexit-fundraiser-his
Jeanine Pirro doesn’t just support President Donald Trump on her Fox News program -- she’s also padding his bank account by headlining an upcoming “Jexit” event supporting Trump at his Washington, D.C., hotel.
Jexit is a Florida non-profit corporation (https://dos.myflorida.com/sunbiz/start-business/efile/fl-nonprofit-corporation/) which aims (https://jexitusa.org/) “to educate and encourage American Jews that are currently members of the Democratic Party to exit the Democratic Party and join President Trump who is the greatest friend to Israel and the Jewish people.” The group also claims that there’s “anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party.” Trump recently pushed (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-anti-semitic-jewish-democrats-disloyal_n_5d5d6b33e4b0701d280c8f2b) the anti-Semitic smear that Jewish Democrats are “very disloyal to Israel” and has (https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1106528029189304320) encouraged (https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1105442110143123456) Jewish people to leave the Democratic Party.
Pirro is scheduled (https://jexitusa.org/brunch-with-judge-jeanine-pirro/) to keynote an October 20 fundraiser for Jexit at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Tickets to the event range in price from $165 to $250 for VIP guests (the VIP level includes a “private Lincoln Room meet and Champagne toast with Judge Jeanine”). All attendees receive a signed copy of Pirro’s new book Radicals, Resistance & Revenge: The Left’s Plot to Remake America -- which presumably means that Pirro also stands to financially benefit from the event. Fox News regular (https://www.facebook.com/Rogers4America/) and Trump campaign adviser (https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/essex/nutley/2017/07/06/nutley-commissioner-steve-rogers-joins-trump-advisory-board/456814001/) Steve Rogers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lt-steven-l-rogers-3472169/) will also appear at the event.
Pirro has repeatedly boosted (https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/gop-payments-trump-venues-conflicts-interest-fox-figures-speeches-have-been-ethical) the president's bottom line by appearing at events at Trump properties. In February, for instance, she headlined (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/26/fox-news-host-boosts-mar-a-lago/) a pro-Trump party at the president’s Mar-a-Lago hotel in Florida for which the proceeds went to his club. That Republican financial support is a two-way street: GOP organizations have paid (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/jeanine-pirro-the-judge-who-speaks-trumps-language/) Pirro more than $230,000 for speeches since Trump’s inauguration.
Trump (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/how-much-time-trump-spending-trump-properties-n753366) and members of his administration (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/3/20847247/mike-pence-ireland-doonbeg-trip-180-miles-away-trump-hotel) have frequently appeared at events at or stayed at Trump properties. The Washington Post has reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/27/cheers-barr-books-trumps-hotel-holiday-party/) that “the federal government and GOP campaigns have spent at least $1.6 million at his properties since he entered office, according to a Post analysis, though the actual figure is likely to be higher because of the difficulty of obtaining up-to-date records.” And numerous (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/19/donald-trump-businesses-hotels-conflict-of-interest) people and groups looking to influence the Trump administration, such as lobbyists (https://time.com/donald-trumps-suite-of-power/), businesses (https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-payday-lenders-spent-1-million-at-a-trump-resort-and-cashed-in), and foreign (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/saudi-funded-lobbyist-paid-for-500-rooms-at-trumps-hotel-after-2016-election/2018/12/05/29603a64-f417-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html) governments (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/reps-22-foreign-governments-have-spent-money-trump-properties-n1015806), have also spent big money at Trump properties.
Other Fox News personalities (https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/gop-payments-trump-venues-conflicts-interest-fox-figures-speeches-have-been-ethical), including Greg Gutfeld, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Chris Stirewalt (who is a member of Fox’s “news” division), have also appeared at events at Trump properties.
Pirro is also scheduled (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/fox-host-jeanine-pirro-will-headline-florida-events-trump-booster-group) to do at least three events connected with the group Trump Team 2020 Florida, an organization which is not actually affiliated with Trump’s reelection campaign but which is nonetheless dedicated to helping him win next November. Pirro will appear at Florida events and give out her book to paid attendees on September 18 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/escambia-county-conservatives-are-pleased-to-welcome-judge-jeanine-pirro-tickets-69762073239?fbclid=IwAR1Co2p30lX9SJu-dNfpuM3AIE5mIMhcr5NeXfP16x3QRZLQRFgLsTyJuuw), September 19 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/judge-jeanine-pirro-in-jacksonville-fl-tickets-69510071495), and September 22 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sumter-county-conservatives-welcome-judge-jeanine-pirro-tickets-69675022869?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR0z6u9qj5WL9FUfVtb4CvcznqpK-uwd6NgBpwqIGHd0DNE1J0mf9NLJJHU).
In November, after Pirro and Hannity appeared at a rally with Trump, Fox News claimed (https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/11/06/fox-claims-it-does-not-condone-any-talent-participating-campaign-events-thats-brazen-lie/222007)that it “does not condone any talent participating in campaign events” -- an assertion has been proved false (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump-campaign-video-features-fox-hosts-diamond-and-silk-interviewing-fox-contributor) over and over again (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/fox-nation-hosts-have-been-campaigning-republicans-violation-networks-supposed-standards).
Pirro recently complained (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/caught-hot-mic-jeanine-pirro-admits-she-was-suspended-fox-news) during a commercial break on Sebastian Gorka’s radio program that Fox News has restricted her book tour schedule, stating that the network “reviews everything. They’re unbelievable.” She also confirmed that the network “suspended” her over her bigoted remarks (https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/foxs-jeanine-pirro-says-rep-omars-hijab-may-mean-shes-against-constitution?redirect_source=/video/2019/03/10/foxs-jeanine-pirro-says-rep-omars-hijab-may-mean-shes-against-constitution/223095) about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and said, “I'm not going to get fired. You know? I'm worried that that suspension was the basis to tee up for anything I do wrong, they'll fire me.”
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clearly not fired 519 pal of djt thus access?
but
https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/jeanine-pirro-rages-against-fox-news-and-admits-she-was-suspended-from-the-network
no lnx
Jeanine Pirro rages against Fox News — and admits she was suspended from the network
Written by Matthew Chapman / Raw Story September 4, 2019
On Tuesday, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro furiously criticized her network during a radio interview with alt-right former President Donald Trump aide Sebastian Gorka — and publicly confirmed, for the first time, that the network suspended her for hate speech.
“You know Fox reviews everything. They’re unbelievable,” she thundered, noting that the network is prohibiting her from going onto several other conservative talk shows. “You know what, they suspended me. And I’m not going to get fired. You know I’m worried that that suspension was the basis to tee up for anything I do wrong, they’ll fire me.”
Pirro, a former prosecutor and county judge in New York who hosts “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” was temporarily pulled off the air in March after an inflammatory tirade against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “Think about it: Omar wears a hijab,” said Pirro. “Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?”
CNN reported at the time that Fox News rebuked her for her comments. This is, however, the first time that Pirro has publicly confirmed that her disappearance from the air was a punishment for that incident.
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https://www.mediamatters.org/jeanine-pirro/fox-host-jeanine-pirro-pushes-white-supremacist-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory
TODD STARNES (FOX NATION HOST): I've often wondered, who do they hate more. Do they hate Donald Trump or do they hate the people who put him into office?
JEANINE PIRRO (FOX NEWS HOST): Well, they hate Donald Trump. He's the one they want to get rid of --
STARNES: I see.
PIRRO: -- because people like you and me who put him into office, their plan and their plot to remake America is to bring in the illegals, change the way the voting occurs in this country, give them licenses. They get to vote, maybe once, maybe twice, maybe three times, and you've got motor voter registration on the day of the election. You've got people with -- We've got voter rolls that haven't been purged of dead people in years where the Democrats have resisted that.
Think about it. It is a plot to remake America, to replace American citizens with illegals that will vote for the Democrats.
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Fox host Jeanine Pirro will headline Florida events for Trump booster group
08/28/19 10:02 AM EDT
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grift?
Fox News claims that its personalities aren't permitted to participate in campaign events. This seems like a peculiar statement, considering how often they do. Just this November, Jeanine Pirro and Sean Hannity appeared at a rally with Trump, forcing (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a36a1e9d39b5bac07f92cd60c944ec3fb67b39b30dc28084bcc921c42e93bb6d00d4115a456b9226bb167839f01feebdf98ec772c37475f7) Fox to issue a statement claiming that the network "does not condone any talent participating in campaign events."
Media Matters' Eric Hananoki pointed out (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a36a1e9d39b5bac0fffcb428345077b4563ec0805393e0af12cd20fc2cab5e7960a06797254df358b5d7ad8eb9e9b19bd35f6830deebac25) this week that Fox's Jeanine Pirro will be headlining yet another campaign event, this time in Washington State. The hose of Fox's Justice with Judge Jeanine, is the featured speaker at an October fundraiser for the Kin County Republican Party in Bellevue, WA.
Pirro has already made more than $230,000 attending and speaking at GOP events and does not show signs of being slowed by Fox's selectively enforced policy.
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https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/08/insane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro/219577
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The insane, toxic Trump adulation of Jeanine Pirro
Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro sold out her public image and debased herself to become one of President Trump’s go-to pundits
Blog ››› March 8, 2018 9:29 AM EST ››› SIMON MALOY
If you were to ask me who Jeanine Pirro works for, I’m not sure I could give you a straight answer. On paper, at least, she is an employee of Fox News, which pays her money to host a weekly show called Justice with Judge Jeanine. It’s a terrible program that exploits the well-worn cable news trope of using a crackpot pundit’s career in law enforcement to give unearned credibility to their howlingly stupid opinions. In theory, Justice with Judge Jeanine is a platform for Pirro (a former judge, former district attorney, failed Senate candidate, and speed-limit scofflaw) to give her take on the week’s top legal stories.
In practice, however, Pirro serves as a combative and vocal propagandist for President Donald Trump. Pirro makes it her business to be the loudest pro-Trump voice in whatever room she happens to find herself in, and she moonlights as an informal adviser to Trump, who reportedly seeks her out for her counsel. Pirro’s advocacy for the president is so aggressive that it often borders on insane -- some of her commentary would be at home in an authoritarian state media apparatus. And she has enthusiastically sold out the cause she built her career in public life on -- advocating for women who were victims of abuse -- to become a sneering and poisonous sycophant to the most powerful elected official in the country.
An ambitious rise and embarrassing fall
Jeanine Pirro does not lack for ambition. Her career in public life saw her score a series of firsts: She helped create and lead what was then called the Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Bureau for Westchester County, New York; she was the first woman to be elected as a judge on the Westchester County court; and she was the first woman to serve as the county’s district attorney. Her ex-husband, Al Pirro, was a well-connected real estate lawyer and GOP fundraiser who knew all the power players in New York -- one of his biggest clients in the late 1990s was Donald Trump, back when he was still in the real estate game.
She had a talent for drawing media attention and relentlessly marketed herself as a hard-charging prosecutor who brought legal hell down upon sex offenders and domestic abusers. Pirro positioned herself as an advocate for women at a time when victims of domestic abuse were an afterthought in the criminal justice system. Her political ascent was durable enough to survive Al Pirro’s 2000 conviction on charges of tax fraud and conspiracy.
All this success and exposure made her a star within the New York GOP, which, in the mid-2000s, was desperately looking for someone to derail the re-election of then-Sen. Hillary Clinton. Pirro, the crusading, media-savvy district attorney, seemed like an obvious choice, and in August 2005, she announced her campaign for the U.S. Senate. She came into the race with a ton of hype and lofty expectations, and almost immediately Pirro proved she was completely out of her depth.
Pirro’s campaign was an unalloyed fiasco from the start. Her speech announcing her candidacy became a nationwide joke after she spent half a minute silently fumbling for a missing page of her prepared remarks (The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart cracked that she observed “32 seconds of silence in memory of the premature death of her campaign”). Her first campaign ad didn’t directly state that she was running for a seat in Congress, and she showed up at the wrong location for a press conference announcing the ad buy. Pirro was also a fantastically inept fundraiser. Her campaign pulled in just $438,555 in its first fundraising quarter, compared to Clinton’s $5.3 million. (Amusingly, $900 of Clinton’s haul that quarter came from Donald J. Trump, according to campaign finance records.)
With no money, no traction, and almost exclusively negative press attention, Pirro came under pressure from New York Republicans who wanted her to get out of the race so another candidate could take on Hillary. Among the high-profile Republicans plotting against Pirro’s ambition was her own husband, who reportedly urged state GOP officials to convince her to end the campaign.
Pirro quit the Senate race after just four months and opted instead to run for New York attorney general. She won the Republican nomination running unopposed. But whatever slim hope Pirro might have nurtured for a comeback was crushed in September 2006 when she herself came under federal investigation for conspiring to wiretap her husband, who she suspected was cheating on her.
No charges ended up being filed, Pirro lost the race to future New York governor Andrew Cuomo by 20 points, and she and her husband separated a year later. With her political career left a smoldering ruin, Pirro made the move to television. After a short run as host of a low-rated Judge Judy-like courtroomreality program, Pirro jumped to Fox News and started hosting Justice with Judge Jeanine in 2011.
Pirro enthusiastically sells out for Trump
Pirro’s affinity for Trump makes sense in a lot of ways: They’ve been friends for decades, they’re both Republicans, they’re both combative New Yorkers who crave media attention. But in one very important aspect, Pirro and Trump should -- at least in theory -- be irreconcilably opposed.
Remember that Pirro’s entire public image was built around her work on behalf of victims of abuse: women who had been cowed into silence by their abusers and left unrepresented by the law and the courts. Her career as a politician was rooted in the idea that she was a tireless and hellacious enemy of sexual predators, wife beaters, and perpetrators of domestic violence. A 2005 profile of Pirro in the New York Observer described her as “half crusading cop, half crusading mom” and said her career was defined by “work with victims of spousal abuse and sexual abuse, murder, stalking, rape, [and] torture.”
As a pundit, however, she has fanatically aligned herself with the nation's most prominent accused sexual assaulter. Donald Trump has faced too many credible allegations of assault against women to simply wave off, but Pirro has done exactly that, making every excuse for him, even when Trump got caught describing his own sexual misconduct.
“The comments are shameful and cringeworthy. The words are disgusting, devastating, and embarrassing. It’s the kind of locker room and frat house talk that personally infuriates me,” Pirro said on her program following the release of the Access Hollywood tapes in which Trump boasted of groping women by their genitalia. “But guess what: I still without a doubt support Donald Trump.” Her rationale aligned perfectly with the excuse offered by Trump: that his comments were just “words” and not to be taken as an admission of sexual assault. And regardless of what Trump said, she argued, he was still better than “double-talking woman” Hillary Clinton.
Pirro mortgaged her own reputation to defend Trump from his own self-incrimination. “He has always been a gentleman,” Pirro said on Fox & Friends in October 2016. “I know the man, and I can speak as a woman who has fought for battered women, I have crusaded for women my whole career to level the playing field for women who are victims of crime.” When multiple women came forward with their stories about Trump’s sexual assault, Pirro dismissed them as not credible and perhaps part of an anti-Trump conspiracy. “It’s a little too convenient. All of the sudden all of these people on one day on the day when WikiLeaks starts coming out,” she said.
Last month, during one of the “Opening Statements” that she starts each show with, Pirro lashed out at former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned from the White House amid allegations that he’d physically abused his ex-wives. Pirro called Porter a “batterer” and lamented that “he doesn’t walk around with a scarlet letter or a sign on his forehead that says ‘I beat women.’” But she also went out of her way to exculpate the people in the White House who protected Porter for months, like chief of staff John Kelly, casting them as victims of anti-Trump hysteria. “You want to stop a four-star general who is running the White House, who believes in chain of command, who makes a decision within 40 minutes because you hate Donald Trump?” she asked before absurdly suggesting that the Rob Porter scandal was actually Barack Obama’s fault somehow. “Find another scapegoat. You might want to look at the last president.”
The reason Pirro has so enthusiastically set fire to her reputation like this is that Trump is her avenue to power and influence. She protects and champions Trump in the face of all the damning evidence because he’s her friend, and because he’s the president of the United States and he gives her access.
Softballs and poison
Jeanine Pirro’s access to Trump comes in several different forms. She’s not just a pro-Trump pundit -- she’s also an adviser whom the president routinely seeks out. The New York Times reported in November 2017 that Pirro had once interviewed to be Trump’s deputy attorney general and that she had met with Trump in the Oval Office to “excoriate” Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The Daily Beast reported that Trump regularly consults Pirro “privately for advice on political and policy matters.” Pirro was the keynote speaker at a January event at Mar-a-Lago put on by a pro-Trump political group, and she’s reportedly discussed with Trump the possibility of writing a rebuttal book to Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury.
As a media figure, Pirro has scored two interviews with Trump since his inauguration; both were embarrassing spectacles that set new boundaries for the definition of “softball.”
Her most recent sit-down with Trump was on February 24. The “questions” she asked him were, in several instances, just direct invitations for Trump to praise himself. This, for example, is an actual question posed to the president of the United States by Jeanine Pirro:
Mr. President, your approval rating is soaring. And we can talk about the economy and the low unemployment and the stock market and all of the great things that have been happening with the economy. But you have accomplished all of this -- and, by the way, there’s a poll that put you at 50 percent, and at CPAC you were at 93 percent approval rating -- you did all this in one year with the economy. To what do you attribute these incredible advances?
“I know that you support the military and you’re giving them the resources they need -- are we going to have a parade?” she asked at another point. The parade (one of Trump’s favorite pet issues) elicited a follow-up from Pirro: “When do you think we can have this parade? Because I want to go to the parade!”
Her previous interview with Trump, on May 13, 2017, came in the immediate aftermath of his massively controversial firing of former FBI Director James Comey. Pirro used the opportunity to soothe Trump’s ego. “The media’s in a frenzy, and so given that some of these congresspeople thought he should have been fired … doesn’t it suggest to you that it isn’t even about Comey, it’s about anything that you, as president, do?” (Trump, of course, agreed.) That question wasn’t nearly as sycophantic as Pirro’s take on the messaging disarray within the administration. “Are you moving so quickly that your communications department can’t keep up with you?” Pirro asked. “Yes, that’s true,” Trump responded.
I’d like to think that any media personality bearing even the spindliest shred of professional integrity would choke on the idea of being so exuberantly obsequious to the most powerful politician in the country. Pirro, however, is not so encumbered.
The obverse side to Pirro’s gross deference to Trump is the noxious vitriol she spits at anyone who crosses the president, be they political adversaries or government officials who’ve drawn Trump’s ire.
Like her Fox Business Network colleague (and fellow presidential propagandist) Lou Dobbs, Pirro is a staunch advocate of arresting and prosecuting Trump’s perceived enemies for the crime of opposing Trump. On December 9, 2017, she caused a stir by calling for a “cleansing” of the FBI and the Justice Department (DOJ), which she said were full “of individuals who should not just be fired, but who need to be taken out in handcuffs” and whose “corruption and lawlessness” require that they made into “examples.” Her fervor for “cleansing” the DOJ was undercut by her difficulty in identifying any actual crimes committed by the people she wanted purged -- special counselRobert Mueller’s arrestable infraction, for example, was that “in a year, with a team dedicated to destroying Donald Trump, he can’t come up with one piece of evidence.”
That insane harangue caused a media backlash driven largely by the fact that Pirro herself was a former law enforcement official calling for a purge of law enforcement. The following week she responded with an escalating series of attacks on the DOJ, grandiosely declaring: “I hereby double down.” She said there is “a criminal cabal in our FBI and the Department of Justice who think they know better than we do who our president should be,” describing it as “a crime family like in the movies except this time the FBI is the crime family.”
Hillary Clinton also features prominently in Pirro’s weekly diatribes, likely due to Trump’s ongoing obsession with his former rival and Pirro’s own history as a failed Clinton foil. Last week saw huge stories break on guns, trade, and White House staffers, but Pirro’s “Opening Statement” on Saturday’s show focused on a tweet by Clinton about Trump and Russia. “The woman is even dumber than I thought,” she said as the starting point for a six-minute screed aimed at a candidate who lost an election 16 months ago.
Earlier this year, Pirro filmed a “Street Justice” segment in which she wandered around Chappaqua, NY, pestering locals with inane questions about the Clintons. “Does Hillary Clinton drop off her pantsuits here?” she yelled through the open door of a dry cleaner (the employee inside ignored her). Then she tromped through the local woods “looking for Hillary,” apparently because Clinton was spotted hiking there after the election. The segment was confusing and pointless but extremely amusing to Pirro. “You think she’s home writing another book? Or maybe she’s still reading ‘What Happened’ because she can’t figure out what happened!” she said, taking obvious delight in what she believed to be a joke.
The wages of propaganda
Like other pro-Trump propagandists in the Fox News family, Jeanine Pirro understands that the way to attract and maintain the president’s attention is through grandiose, inflammatory demonstrations of dog-like loyalty. Trump watches a disgusting amount of cable news and loves pundits who posture as fighters and scrappers. Pirro markets herself precisely that way: a brawler who brings the principled, no-nonsense sensibility of a crusading judge to her weekly program. But Pirro has no principles and her only crusade is deifying Trump. And for her service, she is rewarded with access to the White House and the president.
Corrupt arrangements like these have a baleful influence on how media figures behave. The most unethical and least principled actors in the media ecosystem are the ones who enjoy the best access and benefit from the exposure granted by their proximity to the president. This perverse incentive structure makes flagrant toadyism and barking lunacy desirable attributes (or, at the very least, it makes them less intolerable as trade-offs for access). The rise of unscrupulous pro-Trump whack jobs like Jeffrey Lord and Ed Martin speaks to this dynamic: inflammatory, manifestly untrustworthy voices given positions of prominence by media outlets because their slavish devotion to the president.
This rotten dynamic puts a sycophant and sellout like Jeanine Pirro on the inside track, and it makes the Trump worship and scalding venom of Justice with Judge Jeanine a formula to be emulated.
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mma
For years, Media Matters has documented (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=9016d558aab1b0b94e55597fc8690f8510059946b72633cb85270d173f41ccea6825a71578ac9aa0be1fa8dabb49e2eec64a065bec4c0d71) how Fox News operates as the communications are of the Republican Party. Among other examples, party officials cycle in and out of the network like a revolving door and Fox employees fundraise and even stump for Republican candidates.
However, on many occasions Fox employees went even further, using their close relationships to party officials for personally benefit. This week, Media Matters compiled (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=9016d558aab1b0b9be4e42c43552466f360fe1dfabe0440bf5338110d9e94b21d04f0359d125d250ee8b1024ad8390823e7b79d637ce31d3) a comprehensive list of examples of Fox figures using their proximity to Republican officials for personal gain and celebrity to benefit the party.
Here are some of the most egregious examples:
Fox hosts Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Greg Gutfeld, Sean Hannity, Pete Hegseth, Laura Ingraham, andJeanine Pirro have received over $500,000 combined in speaking fees from Republican groups while working at the network.
Members of Fox's purported "news" division, such as anchor Shannon Bream and Fox News Senior Vice President of business news Neil Cavuto, have also headlined conservative events, including alongside Republican officials. In one instance, Bream spoke at a conference that also featured then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (whom she later interviewed on her program).
Fox News employees have spoken at events that have financially benefited President Donald Trump. For instance, Chris Stirewalt -- a member of Fox’s “news” division -- spoke at an event for the petroleum industry at Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. And Jeanine Pirro has done events in which the proceeds went to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
Three Fox News hosts -- Brian Kilmeade, Pete Hegseth, and Shannon Bream -- have cancelled speeches at conservative events this year following Media Matters reporting.
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At this very moment, Trump and allies of his administration are blocking more than 20 Democratic congressional probes. Historians, professors, and legal experts have explained that the administration's actions are unprecedented and that the administration's stonewalling of oversight could quickly set new precedent for unchecked executive power for years after Trump is gone.
Right-wing media have provided extensive cover (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=862373961c3a99c139c842eb4d4f64a257a7903e48d99087a39fbd555c15851b25f72391e1881fea9684e9473a8a8c267916838babb090cf) for the Trump administration. Brian Kilmeade said, "So there are countless investigations. ... And for the most part, the White House looked at all of this and said this is out of control." Jeanine Pirro stated, "The only constitutional crisis is the one created by Obama administration officials of a false collusion." Jesse Watters, simply claimed, "All presidents refuse to hand things over to Congress."
There's a real cost to normalizing this blanket stonewalling. As law professor David Alan Sklansky said, “Our system depends on some commitment by both parties and by all public officials to continuing a constitutional order.”
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/judge-fox-news-host-jeanine-pirros-show-is-so-caustic-her-vicious-attacks-cant-be-defamatory/
Tuesday, a New York judge dismissed (https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-deray-pirro-lawsuit-20190326-lba6wrecv5cbfdz5tyzr65kbbu-story.html) a defamation lawsuit by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson against Fox News commentator Jeanine Pirro — on the grounds that her show is so notoriously “loud” and “caustic” that nothing on it could be construed as defamation.
According to the New York Daily News (https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-deray-pirro-lawsuit-20190326-lba6wrecv5cbfdz5tyzr65kbbu-story.html):
McKesson, who is also a noted speaker and podcast host, sued Pirro in December 2017 for claiming on-air that he had “directed” violence against a Baton Rouge police officer. McKesson said that wasn’t true.
Pirro argued that she was merely expressing the opinion that the injured officer could sue McKesson, arguing he is liable for the officer’s injuries.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Robert Kalish agreed that Pirro had the right to express such an opinion, and noted that Pirro’s own lawyer had described her shtick as “loud, caustic and hard hitting.”
“Pirro’s lack of temperament, and caustic commentary is what she is known, celebrated and frequently criticized for,” Kalish wrote.
Kalish did appear to acknowledge that there was a clear racial element in Pirro’s attack on McKesson, saying that “This Court is not blind to the undertones in this segment.” Nonetheless, Kalish found that Pirro’s words were protected speech.
While the situation clearly represents a legal gray area, the judge’s decision is not without its own risks, as attacks from Fox News personalities have caused serious harm. Most famously, in 2009, abortion doctor George Tiller was fatally shot (https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/us/01tiller.html) at his own church in Kansas after weeks of inflammatory invective (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bill-oreillys-dangerous-war-against-dr-tiller-107722/) from then-Fox News primetime host Bill O’Reilly, who declared him “Tiller the Baby Killer,” called his clinic a “death mill,” and equated him with the Nazis, al-Qaeda, and pedophiles.
Pirro, a former prosecutor and local judge, has faced controversy recently over a segment attacking Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN), in which she speculated (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/03/10/ilhan-omars-hijab-concerns-fox-news-host-jeanine-pirro/3124918002/)that Omar’s wearing of a traditional hijab is “indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution.” Fox News released a statement saying that “we strongly condemn (https://deadline.com/2019/03/jeanine-pirro-fox-news-rebuke-ilhan-omar-hijab-1202573258/)” Pirro’s comments, and she has not been back on the air since (https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2019/03/24/jeanine-pirro-off-air-for-second-straight-week-fox-news/tnSeAoflegbNZ69Omftd2L/story.html).
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tucker stays? she's a sacrifice?
nope
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/14/advertisers-ditch-carlsons-pirros-fox-news-shows-as-protesters-urge-companies-to-join-them/
March 16, Fox News pulled Jeanine Pirro's Justice with Judge Jeanine from its weekly Saturday night slot after a week of outrage over her anti-Muslim rant against a sitting congresswoman. The next morning, President Donald Trump lashed out in a series of tweets, demanding Fox “Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro” and “fight for our Country.”
During her March 9 show, Pirro suggested (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a4c8feb813f9f12e21f7f51d2f1e57cee58d1e51a09c3cf717993fd740482f083e08409fb3d02aff384b824e3070ac7418) that Rep. Ihlan Omar's (D-MN) hijab was "indicative of her adherence to sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution."
This outright bigotry prompted widespread outrage. A day later, Fox finally addressed it (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a4f220b62a494eb52a899ba84445cbd7c103ca7b3a18814f3bbc844538f9ac35b070d2121ef1e947290f62ae772bdface8), saying that "we strongly condemn" Pirro's remarks and that it "addressed the matter with her directly." Fox's statement was accompanied by a separate statement from Pirro in which she neither apologized nor showed any remorse from what she said.
There are four fundamental truths at play here. First, Fox News is under a lot of pressure following advertiser losses as a result of the network's malfeasance and bigotry. Second, Fox News is a propaganda machine for Trump, with the two entities essentially merged. Third, Pirro's show is fundamentally bigoted to its core; she can never meaningfully distance herself from anti-Muslim statements since she's been doing it for years (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a49393040af885c7db39646287510b865cb7df8f05434b8e9bf2ecf5eab0b33c29c23d79628a52f0bec4e327e2a6aaeebe). Third, the Fox News audience wants (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a43b3bdef5dcc65a79b221eabf2f4a7e276935d7d58d2b22d47067a032710dafd51c1c70eacd3cc4a4e0234857ac13e9ed) the bigoted and anti-Muslim statements. They've been fed this for years, and now expect no less. That's why you've seen people like Sebastian Gorka loudly defend (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a4dfdb97d9047cb3ad97bb437ab1734f63c7bd0ff960581899ef75efa49d234d6bab7c981c7f4d66c4dfd65a085cf0f791) Pirro this week.
In terms of any discipline for Pirro, Fox News kept mum for several days on the matter; CNN's Brian Stelter is now reporting, per one source, that Pirro has been suspended for two weeks. But Fox executives' instinctive secrecy just shows how afraid they are of their network’s audience: If Fox News were a real news organization, then at a minimum it would say on air that Pirro's remarks were unacceptable and communicate what it is doing to its audience.
Instead of doing any of that, Fox News wants to send one message to its hard-right audience and an entirely different message to its advertisers. They are welcome to try, but the Fox audience will never abet any meaningful move away from bigotry, and the rest of the public (and advertisers) don't have to play along. These are the tactics of a propaganda outlet, not a news organization.
But it is clear Fox's ploy is not working. Advertisers are still staying away. And even the Fox audience will never abet any meaningful move away from bigotry. Just this morning, Trump tweeted (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a424bfc35d620fb982bf38aae4af61833dad84e15c5ff1243da15fa1d7e88944b6efeab83e0a022a7da266e6831be0c7cc) that Pirro should be brought back
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fox News issues weak condemnation of Jeanine Pirro’s Islamophobic comments attacking Congresswoman Omar — but won’t fire her (https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/fox-news-issues-weak-condemnation-of-jeanine-pirros-islamophobic-comments-attacking-congresswoman-omar-but-wont-fire-her/)
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pow booktv
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Fox's Jeanine Pirro suggests both that there were "more votes than people" in Florida and that a "truckload" of ballots were destroyed
Video November 9, 2018 10:54 AM EST
Matt Schlapp: Gillum's call to "count every vote" means "count the votes of people who are not legally allowed to vote
tucker still there; was it NZ shooting? is she a symboliic scarifice?
March 16, Fox News pulled Jeanine Pirro's Justice with Judge Jeanine from its weekly Saturday night slot after a week of outrage over her anti-Muslim rant against a sitting congresswoman. The next morning, President Donald Trump lashed out in a series of tweets, demanding Fox “Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro” and “fight for our Country.”
During her March 9 show, Pirro suggested (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a4c8feb813f9f12e21f7f51d2f1e57cee58d1e51a09c3cf717993fd740482f083e08409fb3d02aff384b824e3070ac7418) that Rep. Ihlan Omar's (D-MN) hijab was "indicative of her adherence to sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution."
This outright bigotry prompted widespread outrage. A day later, Fox finally addressed it (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a4f220b62a494eb52a899ba84445cbd7c103ca7b3a18814f3bbc844538f9ac35b070d2121ef1e947290f62ae772bdface8), saying that "we strongly condemn" Pirro's remarks and that it "addressed the matter with her directly." Fox's statement was accompanied by a separate statement from Pirro in which she neither apologized nor showed any remorse from what she said.
There are four fundamental truths at play here. First, Fox News is under a lot of pressure following advertiser losses as a result of the network's malfeasance and bigotry. Second, Fox News is a propaganda machine for Trump, with the two entities essentially merged. Third, Pirro's show is fundamentally bigoted to its core; she can never meaningfully distance herself from anti-Muslim statements since she's been doing it for years (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a49393040af885c7db39646287510b865cb7df8f05434b8e9bf2ecf5eab0b33c29c23d79628a52f0bec4e327e2a6aaeebe). Third, the Fox News audience wants (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a43b3bdef5dcc65a79b221eabf2f4a7e276935d7d58d2b22d47067a032710dafd51c1c70eacd3cc4a4e0234857ac13e9ed) the bigoted and anti-Muslim statements. They've been fed this for years, and now expect no less. That's why you've seen people like Sebastian Gorka loudly defend (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a4dfdb97d9047cb3ad97bb437ab1734f63c7bd0ff960581899ef75efa49d234d6bab7c981c7f4d66c4dfd65a085cf0f791) Pirro this week.
In terms of any discipline for Pirro, Fox News kept mum for several days on the matter; CNN's Brian Stelter is now reporting, per one source, that Pirro has been suspended for two weeks. But Fox executives' instinctive secrecy just shows how afraid they are of their network’s audience: If Fox News were a real news organization, then at a minimum it would say on air that Pirro's remarks were unacceptable and communicate what it is doing to its audience.
Instead of doing any of that, Fox News wants to send one message to its hard-right audience and an entirely different message to its advertisers. They are welcome to try, but the Fox audience will never abet any meaningful move away from bigotry, and the rest of the public (and advertisers) don't have to play along. These are the tactics of a propaganda outlet, not a news organization.
But it is clear Fox's ploy is not working. Advertisers are still staying away. And even the Fox audience will never abet any meaningful move away from bigotry. Just this morning, Trump tweeted (http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d6832018cefed4a424bfc35d620fb982bf38aae4af61833dad84e15c5ff1243da15fa1d7e88944b6efeab83e0a022a7da266e6831be0c7cc) that Pirro should be brought back
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Jeanine Pirro
At first glance, Fox’s Jeanine Pirro seems an obvious choice for the summit. As the first woman (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/as-successor-arrives-pirro-looks-back.html) elected to serve as the district attorney in New York’s Westchester County, Pirro spent years working on behalf (https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/08/insane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro/219577) of abuse survivors, often women and children. Since her years as DA, however, Pirro has seemingly turned her back on abuse victims, using her Fox show, Justice with Judge Jeanine, to downplay sexual misconduct allegations.
When Pirro’s former Fox colleague Gretchen Carlson reported then-Fox CEO Roger Ailes’ many instances of severe sexual misconduct, Pirro aggressively defended Ailes, dismissing (https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-rips-gretchen-carlsons-absurd-lawsuit/) Carlson’s lawsuit as “absurd” and describing (https://people.com/tv/jeanine-pirro-defends-roger-ailes-in-gretchen-carlson-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/) Ailes as a “no-nonsense guy.”
In October 2016, Pirro was quick to defend then-candidate Donald Trump after the release of an Access Hollywood video (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8070da36937c), which caught him bragging about sexually assaulting women. Two days after the video was released, Pirro dismissed (https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/10/10/fox-host-trump-sexual-assault-claim-just-locker-room-talk-and-frat-house-language/213694) Trump’s violent remarks as “locker room talk" and "frat house language." She also proudly announced (https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/03/08/insane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro/219577) that the video did nothing to change her vote, and that Trump was still an undoubtedly better choice than “double-talking woman” Hillary Clinton.
Days later, when multiple women (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html) reported that Trump had touched them inappropriately, Pirro rejected (http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/14/judge-jeanine-trump-sexual-assault-allegations)their reports as “a little too convenient” and criticized their timing.
Dana Loesch
NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch is a remarkably bad choice to speak at a women’s conference, considering her numerous glib comments about rape, her mischaracterization of issues that advance gender equality, and her cruel attacks against transgender women. Additionally, Loesch has openly ridiculed college-aged women, the demographic TPUSA’s summit is aiming to capture, for wanting access to contraceptives.
After conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh aimed misogynistic insults (https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/03/05/limbaugh-launched-46-personal-attacks-on-fluke/184269) at Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student who testified in front of Congress about access to contraceptives, Loesch launched a barrage of heinous attacks (https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/03/20/cnns-dana-loesch-and-the-bullying-campaign-agai/186286) against her. She denounced Fluke as unable “to control her sexual urges” and claimed that Fluke had testified that she “simply cannot stop getting it on.”
Loesch then extended (https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/02/29/young-womens-health-care-needs-are-no-laughing/186514) her attacks to seemingly include all college-aged women who want access to contraceptives, ridiculing them for acting “like they’re nymphos” and dismissing young women's call for contraceptives coverage as "insulting to the original spirit and intent of the suffrage movement."
Loesch has a history of making flippant remarks and ill-advised (https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/171459226756063232) jokes (https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/177912460588744704) about rape, including comparing (https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/07/28/nra-spokesperson-penalizing-gun-owners-improperly-storing-firearms-shaming-rape-survivor/217430)the penalization of gun owners for improperly storing firearms to “shaming a rape survivor.”
Loesch has been quick (https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/540936329291264000) to (https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/540943953021763585) fearmonger about false reports of sexual assault (which researchers say make up (http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/the_voice_vol_3_no_1_2009.pdf) only an estimated 2 to 8 percent of allegations), and she came immediately to the defense (https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/19/cnns-dana-loesch-excuses-gop-rep-akins-legitima/189439) of former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) after he claimed that it’s “really rare" for women subjected to "legitimate rape" to become pregnant.
In addition to her trivializing rhetoric on rape, Loesch has made (http://www.newsweek.com/nra-dana-loesch-women-feminism-toxic-masculinity-guns-witch-hunt-967575) careless and insensitive comments about gender, including claiming (https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/06/07/nra-spokesperson-dana-loesch-some-women-wouldn-t-know-what-masculinity-was-if-it-hit-them-face/220390) that some women “wouldn’t know what masculinity was if it hit them in the face."
According to Loesch, the gender wage gap is (https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/01/13/the-blazes-dana-loesch-calls-gender-pay-inequal/207961) “an absolute myth.” And after actress Jennifer Lawrence wrote an essay describing her own experience with pay inequality, Loesch denied (https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/654374298413477889) that “sexism” played a role in Lawrence’s experience, instead accusing Lawrence of having a “self esteem issue.”
Loesch has additionally aimed cruel and dangerous (https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trans-woman-prison-suicide-jenny-swift-doncaster-misgendering-can-kill-a7513441.html) attacks (http://danaloeschradio.com/dana-loesch-criticizes-bruce-jenners-sexual-appropriation) at transgender women, going out of her way to misgender (https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/776197033623367680) former soldier and whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
Loesch also claimed (https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/776124351380795392) that Manning was given “preferential treatment” and an “unnecessary surgery” when she received hormone therapy while in prison. In reality, hormone therapy is medically necessary (https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/14/fox-news-attacks-special-treatment-for-transgen/199305), and to say otherwise simply serves to dismiss the health needs of transgender women.
Pirro's Trumpian dreams
A new report reveals that Fox host and Trump pal Jeanine Pirro wants to be the attorney general. Under normal circumstances this would be laughable, but Donald Trump has already appointed cable news pundits as his top economic and national security advisers.
So, knowing that Trump watches her show, Pirro has repeatedly gone after current Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urging him to resign and even calling him "the most dangerous man in America" for what Pirro argues is an apparent lack of loyalty to Trump by refusing to turn the Justice Department fully into a weapon to attack Trump's enemies. But as Simon Maloy points out (https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F2018%2F06%2F08%2FJeanine-Pirro-calls-for-Jeff-Sessions-head-because-she-wants-his-job%2F220401&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=610weekly&n=22&v=1396), it's Pirro's grotesqueness (https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F2018%2F03%2F08%2Finsane-toxic-trump-adulation-jeanine-pirro%2F219577&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=610weekly&n=23&v=1396) that draws Trump in. There's a very real possibility in the future that Trump nominates Pirro for AG or a position even higher.
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