'Reckless maniac': Former Fox News executive privately said Jeanine Pirro was 'nuts'
President Donald Trump has officially named Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro to be interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — one of the most vaunted positions in the Department of Justice. And now, new details are emerging about what Pirro's former colleagues privately thought of her.
Before Trump named her as his administration's chief prosecutor in Washington D.C., Pirro was known for her adulation of Trump and her insistence on spreading baseless disinformation about the 2020 election on Fox News' airwaves. On Thursday, liberal research group Media Matters highlighted several emails that a Fox News executive sent as the network was in the midst of tense litigation with voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems.
The emails, which became public in 2023, show executives privately fretting about Pirro amplifying unproven conspiracy theories about Trump's loss to former President Joe Biden, and expressing doubt in Pirro's judgment. Executive David Clark, who oversaw Pirro's show, called her a "reckless maniac" who was "nuts."
In another exchange, Fox executive Jerry Andrews forwarded Pirro's planned monologue for a November 2020 episode of "Justice with Judge Jeanine" to fellow executive Meade Cooper in an attempt to sound the alarm about the claims she was making on the air.
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Can’t wait to see these on posters in the committee hearing. 😬
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