(Adnkronos) – US President Donald Trump announced in a post on Truth his intention to appoint former prosecutor and judge and Fox News face Jeanine Pirro as interim attorney general for the District of Columbia, the capital Washington.
The news follows Trump’s clarification in the Oval Office to reporters that Ed Martin, the current interim attorney general for the District of Columbia (whose term expires May 20), will not be confirmed after losing the support of the Republican Party leadership in the Senate. Trump said Martin could hold another position at the Justice Department.
Pirro has been considered a Trump loyalist since her time as a prosecutor in New York State. She supported the current president already during the 2016 White House campaign and defended him during the outbreak of the scandal over the video that became famous as the Access Hollywood tape. After Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, Pirro relaunched false accusations of fraud and was later among Fox News employees named in the defamation lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems for spreading false statements about the company.
In 2019, she was reportedly suspended from Fox News after questioning the loyalty to the U.S. Constitution of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, citing her Muslim faith.
One of Trump’s last acts before leaving office in 2021 was to pardon Pirro’s ex-husband, Albert Pirro, a longtime Republican Party donor convicted more than 20 years ago on 34 counts including racketeering and tax evasion.
