A hit piece by New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush on newly confirmed U.S. Legal professional for the District of Columbia Choose Jeanine Pirro truly reveals Pirro is working lengthy hours in her new put up and has gained over skeptical workers.
Pirro, 74, began her profession combating crime in 1975 as an assistant district legal professional after which as a decide and district legal professional in Westchester County, New York, serving elected phrases in workplace from 1991 to 1993 and 1994 to 2005, respectively. Afterward, Pirro starred within the Choose Jeanine Pirro courtroom TV present on the CW from 2008 although 2011 and have become a greatest promoting writer and Fox Information host and commentator from 2011 by means of 2025. Pirro can be a longtime good friend and supporter of President Donald Trump, who appointed her to the U.S. Legal professional place.
One has to wade by means of practically twenty paragraphs of snark to get to a very powerful information within the snarky Times article on Pirro by Thrush: That Pirro works lengthy hours, lives in D.C. in the course of the work-week and has confirmed herself to a skeptical workers:
If Ms. Pirro hopes to ascend within the division, she has not shared it with folks in her orbit. She has defied expectations, widespread amongst workers earlier than she arrived, that she wouldn’t take the job significantly, or spend her days kibbitzing on the White Home.
Ms. Pirro has been working lengthy hours, fortified by sweet and early-morning exercises; she lives in a rented house in Washington in the course of the week and commutes again to her home in Rye, N.Y., on the weekends…
She holds every day briefings with division chiefs within the workplace, circulates amongst workers and drops in on courtroom proceedings of explicit curiosity to her, together with the trial of Shon Hopwood, a Georgetown Legislation professor convicted final month of assaulting his spouse.
…She earned the cautious respect of subordinates early in her tenure after a lone gunman fatally shot two Israeli Embassy staff in Might exterior the Jewish museum in downtown Washington. Ms. Pirro, donning tortoise shell glasses and discarding the flippancy of her persona on “The 5,” was effectively briefed, skilled and measured.
The snark by no means ends, although. The conclusion of the Occasions article is straight out of Nineteen Fifties sexist reporting:
Requested about current cuts to prison justice packages, Ms. Pirro, sporting a tailor-made navy-blue jacket and an expression of incredulity, took one other high-heeled step towards the cameras.
“Oh, cease it!” she mentioned.
Pirro appeared on Fox Information Saturday evening for an interview with President Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
Pirro spoke about working, for the primary time, for her many years lengthy good friend, President Trump (all caps through YouTube closed caption):
“I’VE GOT TO TELL YOU, I SPOKE TO HIM I THINK YESTERDAY AT 7:00 A.M. AND HE’S LIKE, HE’S NONSTOP. AND HE MOTIVATES ALL OF US, “WE NEED TO DO THIS AND THIS AND THIS.” I LOVE WORKING FOR HIM, I’M PROUD OF HIM, I BELIEVE IN HIM. HE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE, HE BELIEVES IN THE AMERICAN DREAM, HE BELIEVES IN SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR AMERICANS. HE BELIEVES IN US AND WE BELIEVE IN HIM.”
Watch to the tip to listen to Pirro’s voice crack as she tries to maintain her feelings in verify whereas talking about her motivation for leaving a comfortable TV gig at age 74 for the laborious, gritty work of U.S. Legal professional for D.C.
Video clips posted by the White Home:
“.@USAttyPirro says each single one of many 45 teenagers killed by gunfire in D.C. since 2024 are minorities — and 70% of those homicides haven’t been solved: “We haven’t arrested them; we haven’t taken the weapons from them. That’s what @POTUS understands — and that’s my mission.”
.@USAttyPirro says each single one of many 45 teenagers killed by gunfire in D.C. since 2024 are minorities — and 70% of those homicides haven’t been solved: “We’ve not arrested them; we’ve not taken the weapons from them. That is what @POTUS understands — and that is my mission.” pic.twitter.com/rQRIxZqmcc
— Fast Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 17, 2025
“”That is my calling; that is who I’m. I’ve fought for the underdog — for the silent sufferer of crime — my entire life,” says @USAttyPirro @JudgeJeanine “I had an ideal job at Fox, however I’m again to my roots… After I look again on my life, that is what’s going to matter.””
“That is my calling; that is who I’m. I’ve fought for the underdog — for the silent sufferer of crime — my entire life,” says @USAttyPirro @JudgeJeanine.
“I had an ideal job at Fox, however I am again to my roots… After I look again on my life, that is what is going on to matter.” ❤️ pic.twitter.com/WI54FsiFKM
— Fast Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 17, 2025
