CNN Takes a Deep Dive Into Jeanine Pirro’s ‘Untethered to Reality’ Claims, Including Saying NY Is Executing Healthy Babies

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CNN’s K-File took a deep dive into the years of wild rhetoric from Judge Jeanine Pirro, the ex-Fox News host who is now the interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, DC – a top position in the Justice Department.

In an investigation published Monday, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck detailed much of Pirro’s well-known bombastic rhetoric surrounding “past criticism of January 6 prosecutors, Capitol Police officers and federal judges” – but also uncovered some less well-known statements, including rants against Islam and claiming New York was executing babies after birth.

The CNN report highlights the fact that Pirro had called to prosecute Trump’s “perceived political enemies,” which included some of the people who work in the office she now oversees. K-File reported:

In one January 2025 episode of her WABC radio show, Pirro agreed with a guest who said Justice Department prosecutors handling January 6, 2021, cases should be criminally charged. “I absolutely agree with that,” Pirro responded. In another November 2024 episode, she expressed openness to targeting not just prosecutors but also the judge who oversaw Trump’s New York criminal trial.

While Pirro’s run at Fox News has been well-documented, given both her high-profile roles on top-rated show The Five and her weekend show Justice with Judge Jeanine, as well as her penchant for controversy. Pirro had been suspended from her weekend show over comments attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and also figured prominently in Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News.

CNN uncovered some of her less well-known bombastic screeds, which they labeled “inflammatory rhetoric untethered to reality.”

“Among her more shocking and demonstrably false claims, Pirro said New York law allows doctors to kill fully delivered, breathing babies — a conspiracy theory repeatedly debunked by multiple state investigations — to sell their body parts to Planned Parenthood,” noted the report, adding:

“The law in New York now allows you to have a full-term baby — the baby can be born alive. And what that means in New York is actually breathe — it is born alive. The baby is then put in a comfort zone,” Pirro said in a speech in 2019 to a private university in Florida. “And the baby, while in that so-called comfort zone, is allowed to rest while the mother decides whether the baby should live or die.”

“And like the emperor in the Roman Colosseum, the thumbs-up or the thumbs-down, the baby is then killed,” she added, sharing a conspiracy that has been thoroughly debunked.

Of course, as CNN points out as well, there is no evidence that doctors are killing babies after birth anywhere in the U.S.

The report notes some other wild claims from Pirro, including her saying in 2015 that undocumented immigrants could vote “four times” using different names and that President Barack Obama supported a Muslim-backed UN resolution saying “people should not be able to criticize religions of other people.”

“That is coming from the Muslim religion. The Muslim religion — they’ll chop your head off. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know,” she said, while also raging against Sharia law and warning it was coming to the U.S.

Read the full report here.