Slotkin told the outlet that she learned about the investigation after the office of Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., sought an interview with her or her personal attorney. Pirro's office has yet to publicly comment on the reported probe. "Facts matter little, but the threat matters quite a bit," she told the Times. "The threat of legal action; the threat to your family; the threat to your staff; the threat to you."
But Jeanine Pirro did. She want on social media and repeated the apparent miscitation of Cole's own words I laid out here, treating a comment made in the present tense this month - "I really don't like either party at this point" - as if it were a comment about his mindset on January 5, 2021.
Newly revealed text messages show that U.S. Attorney and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro complained about Sean Hannity being an egomaniac and bragged about helping President Donald Trump and the Republican Party while she was a Fox News host, according to a court filing. Pirro is at the center of a defamation lawsuit brought by Smartmatic against the network. The filing was first reported on Tuesday night by The Washington Post, which noted that Fox News bars its on-air talent from political involvement. Pirro is now the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in Trump's Department of Justice.