Trump names Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top DC federal prosecutor
Move comes after US president withdraws nomination of Ed Martin, GOP loyalist who supported January 6 pardons
Donald Trump said on Thursday he would name Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host and former local prosecutor, to be the interim US attorney for the District of Columbia after a key Republican senator said he would not support the candidate initially selected for the job.
Pirro, who spent more than a decade as district attorney of Westchester county, New York, is a diehard Trump supporter and supporter of his baseless claim that the 2020 election was rigged. Dominion Voting Systems cited false statements she made on air in their lawsuit against the network.