DC Reporter Confronts Jeanine Pirro on Trump Pardoning Cop-Beaters: ‘How Is This Not a Mixed Message?’

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro dismissed criticism from police of President Donald Trump’s January 6 pardons during an interview with Fox 5 reporter Jillian Smith about the administration’s decision to send the National Guard into Washington, D.C. to crack down on crime.

Smith pressed Pirro on the contradiction between the president’s pro-police messaging now and his sweeping pardons of rioters who assaulted cops during the January 6 Capitol attack.

“This move is about protecting law enforcement, enabling law enforcement helping them do their job,” Smith said. “There are some members of law enforcement who see that today is a little bit hypocritical, given the president’s sweeping pardons of individuals who not just assaulted police officers, but injured them on day one. How is this not a mixed message?”

Pirro initially dodged the question.

“Look, I think the message is very clear So far this year, I am prosecuting 300 individuals for assaults on police officers. That’s what I’m here to do. That’s what I will continue to do and the police need to understand that I have their back,” Pirro said.

“Today is about making sure that the police are supported with the National Guard, with the Park Police, with DEA, with ATF, with FBI to protect all of us. That’s who we are, and that’s what we’re going to do,” she added.

Smith pressed further: “And what about those officers who feel like the people who injured them —”

Pirro interrupted and dismissed the criticism from police.

“I’m not here to satisfy people’s feelings if they feel bad, I am here to prosecute crime,” she said.

In the wake of Jan. 6, Pirro was pointed in her condemnation of the riot. “The actions at the United States Capitol three days ago were deplorable, reprehensible, outright criminal,” she said on her erstwhile Fox News show on Jan. 9, 2021. She added that, “anyone watching this must condemn it.”

As Trump stormed back to the White House, however, Pirro softened her position on the attack. She defended Trump’s pardons of the rioters who beat police, calling those charged with violent crimes, “hostages.”

Watch above, via Fox 5.