By Steve Neavling
Before becoming Washington’s top prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro turned down an offer to serve as FBI Director Kash Patel’s deputy, The New York Times reports.
Two Trump aides approached her about the role late last year, but she told them she had “no interest” in working under Patel, a right-wing podcaster with no law enforcement background. The job instead went to Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and MAGA personality.
Pirro, 74, is now U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., wielding unusual influence as Trump federalizes the capital under a crime crackdown. A former Westchester County prosecutor and judge, she has not run an office in decades, spending much of the last 20 years as a Fox News commentator.
The Times reported Pirro has bristled at bureaucratic hurdles in her new post, privately complaining about the need for approvals on actions she once handled unilaterally. Publicly, she has cheered Trump’s moves, including deploying the National Guard and federalizing D.C. police.
“You know what? Go to D.C. Experience D.C.! I want you to go there—go right ahead!” she said on Fox & Friends Sunday. “But here’s what the president is going to do. He’s going to make a difference. We’re going to change the laws. We’ve got liberal judges, we’ve got liberal laws—everything’s gonna change.”
Pirro has also pushed unfounded claims that protesters in the city were paid actors, continuing a pattern of conspiracy theories from her years on Fox.
