NYT Reports Jeanine Pirro Turned Down The Number Two Spot At The FBI: ‘No Interest In Working For’ Kash Patel
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The New York Times’ Glenn Thrush revealed in a new report that former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro declined President Donald Trump’s invitation to serve under FBI Director Kash Patel.
Thrush wrote that “Late last year, after Mr. Trump tapped Kash Patel, a podcaster with scant law enforcement experience, to be F.B.I. director, his aides approached Ms. Pirro about becoming his deputy,” citing two sources familiar with the exchange.
But Pirro, whose legal experience includes serving as a prosecutor and judge in New York’s Westchester County, turned down the role, even though she had “tried and failed to secure a top Justice Department job” during Trump’s first term.
The reason, according to Thrush, was Pirro had “no interest” in working for Patel.
Instead, the number-two job went to podcaster and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino.
Pirro went on to take over the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia, even though she “has not run a prosecutor’s office in the iPhone era,” Thrush wrote, adding that Pirro has not made it known whether she “hopes to ascend” to a bigger role in the DOJ.
“Like many big-shot outsiders who take on medium-shot government jobs, Ms. Pirro has been aggravated by red tape, particularly requirements that she obtain approval of other officials before taking actions she would have done unilaterally as Westchester County district attorney two decades ago,” Thrush wrote.
Pirro’s focus so far has been on stamping out violent crime in Washington, D.C.
She appeared on Fox & Friends Weekend on Sunday to deride those protesting the White House takeover of D.C.’s police department.
“You know what? Go to D.C. Experience D.C! I want you to go there — go right ahead!” Pirro goaded the protesters. “But here’s what the president is gonna do. He’s gonna make a difference, we’re gonna change the laws. We’ve got liberal judges we’ve got liberal laws —everything’s gonna change.”
Pirro claimed that the protesters “are getting paid.”
“But, you know what? Nobody cares!” she said. “Because we’re going to do our job. Donald Trump knows —President Trump knows what he’s doing, and right now, they don’t matter.”
