That is in sharp contrast to her predecessor, Ed Martin, who served as the interim U.S. attorney before Trump dropped his nomination because of a backlash from Republicans. Like Pirro, Martin is a dyed-in-the-wool partisan and lawyer. But Martin had no real prosecutorial experience, having spent most of his legal career working on behalf of conservative causes. He had courted controversy by attempting to wield the U.S. attorney’s office against Trump’s enemies and on behalf of his allies, notably by dismissing pending charges against hundreds of defendants facing charges related to the January 6 insurrection. But he didn’t actually know what he was doing, and his nomination faltered in large part because he kept doing and saying stupid things, often on television. (These included praising an avowed Nazi who stormed the Capitol on January 6.)
Since losing the “interim” tag she had held since May, Pirro has been a staunch backer of the president’s crackdown on D.C. Asked on August 13 to justify the presence of National Guard troops and mine-resistant military vehicles on the streets of D.C., given that violent crime is at a 30-year low in the District, Pirro launched into a lengthy soliloquy. “It’s never enough. This changed. This changed,” Pirro said, as she pointed to a series of photographs of D.C. crime victims. “It’s never enough. You tell these families, ‘Crime has dropped.’”
It was an answer that sounded a lot like the “Judge Jeanine” on Fox, but with distinct authoritarian overtones. Pirro didn’t acknowledge that crime was going down; she instead suggested that the existence of any violent crime at all necessitated combat vehicles and troops armed with AR-15s in the streets of the capitol.
Back then, most of that work was yapping on TV. But Trump and his cronies want results, too, and Pirro is there to deliver them. She is there to back the occupation of D.C., which appears as though it will go on indefinitely. And she has already begun to use her powers in disturbing ways. She has directed prosecutors to seek the maximum penalty for anyone arrested during the crackdown. Like others in the administration, she is turning these arrests into a spectacle. After a small mob of heavily armed officers arrested a man who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal agent, Pirro announced in a video on X that the perpetrator had been charged with a felony. “So there!” she said. “Stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else.”
Pirro has been waiting for this moment her whole professional life. She was an ambitious prosecutor and judge—elected, in both cases—who aspired to higher political office, only to lose time and again at the polls. New York voters did not want her as lieutenant governor, U.S. senator, or attorney general. But she spun those failed campaigns into a lucrative, successful TV career that eventually brought her to the attention of the most powerful politician of our era. She herself is now more powerful than she’s ever been, and she didn’t need voters to get there. She just needed to flatter the right people, from the right perch. Rest assured, she’ll now do anything Trump wants—not matter how authoritarian and lawless—in order to keep her newfound power. There might even be a promotion in it for her.
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