Text messages reveal that Jeanine Pirro, now U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and former Fox News host, boasted of working hard for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party and touted her show's ratings. The messages were filed in a Smartmatic defamation lawsuit seeking $2.7 billion in damages from Fox News. Smartmatic alleges Pirro sought favor with Trump partly to obtain a pardon for her ex-husband Albert Pirro, who was convicted of tax evasion and conspiracy; Albert Pirro was later pardoned. The texts also describe Sean Hannity behaving like an egomaniac during an Oval Office visit.
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.
I work so hard for the party across the country, Pirro texted then-Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel in 2020. I'm the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President and party. The message was included in a newly unredacted filing by Smartmatic, which is seeking $2.7 billion in damages from Fox News. Smartmatic alleges that Pirro sought to curry favor with Trump in part to secure a pardon for Albert Pirro, her ex-husband, who was convicted of tax evasion and conspiracy. Toward the end of Trump's first term, she found out that Albert Pirro was not in line for clemency, prompting her to tell Eric Trump that she was upset. Trump ultimately pardoned Albert Pirro.
According to another previously unpublished message included in the filing, Pirro referred to Fox News host Sean Hannity as an egomaniac. Recalling an Oval Office meeting with Trump, Pirro wrote in an Oct. 27, 2020, text message to a friend that Hannity [stormed] in like he owns the place, throws his papers on the Pres desk and says, you don't mind if I use your private bathroom, and walks into bathroom within Oval and uses it. Looks at me and says, I got to talk to him It's all abt him, period. No one else matters.
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