The President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on 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 to the post of interim prosecutor of Washington”said Donald Trump on his social 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 television sets “Dr Oz” appointed to pilot health insurance, or the former boss of the American wrestling Linda McMahon …
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He paid tribute to another message to “Fantastic work” produced 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.
The defection of Republican elected officials 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 the fact that he failed to mention his frequent appearances in Russian media for years.
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 star presenters mentioned in a defamation complaint of the manufacturer of voting machines Dominion, which ended in the fox news payment of the stammered sum of $ 787.5 million (700.42 million euros) to end the prosecution.
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