{"id":27071,"date":"2025-05-08T23:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27071"},"modified":"2025-05-08T23:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:07:34","slug":"trump-picks-fox-news-host-jeanine-pirro-for-interim-dc-us-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27071","title":{"rendered":"Trump picks Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for interim DC US Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Trump went to the Fox News well once again to fill out his administration Thursday, picking \u201cThe Five\u201d co-host Jeanine Pirro to serve as interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position, and is considered one of the Top District Attorneys in the History of the State of New York,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cShe is in a class by herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations Jeanine!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Thursday, Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/08\/us-news\/trump-pulls-nomination-of-embattled-dc-us-attorney-pick-ed-martin-wasnt-getting-the-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled the nomination of\u00a0Ed Martin<\/a>\u00a0to serve as the capital\u2019s top federal prosecutor after Senate Republicans balked at the choice<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a terrific person, and he wasn\u2019t getting the support from people that I thought,\u201d Trump said of Martin, whose period as acting DC US attorney was set to expire May 20.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--trending inline-module--more--thirds\" data-source-unit=\"Explore More - Trending\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<p>\u201cI can only lift that little phone so many times in a day, but we have somebody else that will be great,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; President Trump went to the Fox News well once again to fill out his administration Thursday, picking \u201cThe Five\u201d co-host Jeanine Pirro to serve as interim US Attorney &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27073,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions\/27073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}