The American president decided to appoint Jeanine Pirro, a famous commentator of the fox news channel, at the strategic post of prosecutor of the capital Washington.
Donald Trump’s second choice. The American president announced this Thursday, May 8, having decided to appoint Jeanine Pirro, a famous commentator of the Fox News channel, at the strategic post of prosecutor of the capital Washington, after having to give up the candidacy of the ultra -conservative Ed Martin.
“I am pleased to announce that judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim prosecutor of Washington,” said Donald Trump on his Truth Social network, recalling his past as a prosecutor and magistrate as well as his long career on Fox News.
Very fond of television, Donald Trump has largely drawn from the pool of conservative media animators to recruit members of his administration, such as Pete Hegseth for the Pentagon, the star surgeon of “Dr Oz” TV sets, to pilot health insurance, or the former patron of American wrestling Linda McMahon …
He paid tribute to another message to the “fantastic work” carried out by Ed Martin, announcing his next appointment to the Ministry of Justice as “new director of the working group on the instrumentalization of justice”, one of the antitians of the Republican president against the previous administration of the Democrat Joe Biden.
Conspiracy theories and defamation complaints
The defection of elected representatives of republicans this week brought the confirmation to the Senate of Ed Martin, undermined by the revelations on his links with participants of the Capitol assault on January 6, 2021, including a declared Nazi sympathizer, and his omission of his frequent appearances in Russian media for years.
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Although less directly linked to the attackers of January 6, Jeanine Pirro has widely relayed on Fox News the conspiratorial theories on fraud in favor of Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election which fueled the Capitol assault.
It was also one of the featured presenters cited in a defamation complaint of the manufacturer of voting machines Dominion, which ended in the fox news from the stammered sum of $ 787.5 million to end the prosecution.
