President Donald Trump is reportedly considering Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to be his next nominee to become Washington D.C.'s top prosecutor.
Concretely, ABC News reported that Trump could install Pirro, a former prosecutor, as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. The announcement could take place as soon as Thursday, the outlet added, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The possibility comes after Trump told reporters on Thursday that he is pulling the nomination of Ed Martin for the post. He did so a day after Martin's chances were all but quashed after Sen. Thom Tillis told press he wouldn't support his nomination.
Tillis mentioned Martin's support of Jan. 6 defendants as the main reason for his decision. "Mr. Martin did a good job of explaining the one area that I think he's probably right, that there were some people that were over prosecuted, but there were some, two or three hundred of them that should have never gotten a pardon," Tillis said.
"If Mr. Martin were being put forth as a U.S. attorney for any district except the district where Jan. 6 happened, the protest happened, I'd probably support him, but not in this district," he added.
Martin began an investigation into the D.C. office's handling of Jan. 6 cases after being appointed as interim U.S. attorney. Prosecutors who worked on such cases were fired or remoted during his tenure.
Pirro is a longtime ally of Trump and a staunch defender of his in Fox News. The outlet noted that she was an early supporter of his 2016 campaign and supported his false claim of election fraud in 2020. In fact, she was among the Fox News employees mentioned in a defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. The network ended up settling for $787.5 million and an admission that the statements were false.
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