Breaking: Trump appoints Judge Jeanine to Top Position - Brian Tyler Cohen

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just when you thought the Trump
administration could not find someone
less qualified than Ed Martin to serve
as the top prosecutor in Washington DC
they managed to outdo themselves donald
Trump just took the true social writing
I am pleased to announce that Judge
Janine Piro will be appointed the
interim United States Attorney for the
District of Columbia janine was
assistant district attorney for
Westchester County New York and then
went on to serve as county judge and
district attorney where she was the
first woman ever to be elected into
these positions during her time in
office Janine was a powerful crusader
for victims of crime her establishment
of the domestic violence bureau in her
prosecutor's office was the first in the
nation she excelled in all ways in
addition to her legal career Janine
previously hosted her own Fox News show
Justice with Judge Janine for 10 years
and is currently co-host of the five one
of the highest rated shows on television
janine is incredibly wellqualified for
this position and is considered one of
the top district attorneys in the
history of the state of New York she's
in a class by herself congratulations
Janine yeah that's right fox host Judge
Janine is now the interim US attorney in
Washington DC the one who was named in
the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit for
spreading election lies the one who was
suspended by Fox News for Islamophobic
comments about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar
the one whose ex-husband received a
lastminute pardon from Trump on his way
out the door in 2021 for tax evasion
this is who Trump put in charge of
federal prosecutors in our nation's
capital if America wasn't great before
this ought to do it the irony here is
that the previous interim US attorney in
DC Ed Martin was pretty bad
martin is a stop the steel organizer who
was appointed by Trump on day one of his
administration this is a guy who called
on diehard true Americans to work until
their last breath to stop the steel at a
rally the day before the January 6th
attack on the capital martin had
absolutely zero prosecutorial experience
before Trump appointed him instead his
main qualifications were surprise
surprise his unwavering loyalty to
Donald Trump and his work defending
January 6 riers once in office Martin
immediately got to work firing
prosecutors who had worked on January 6
cases demoting senior career attorneys
to entry-level positions and launching
investigations into Trump's political
enemies the guy was so extreme that he
even presented an award to Timothy Hail
Kusenelli a January 6 writer who had
posed with a Hitler mustache and who the
Justice Department called an avowed
white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer
when questioned about this Martin
claimed he didn't know about Hail
Cusinelli's background despite having
mentioned the controversy in an earlier
interview with him martin's nomination
was so toxic that even Republicans
couldn't stomach it that's saying
something senator Tom Tillis of North
Carolina he's a member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee announced that he
wouldn't support Martin's nomination
effectively killing it considering
Republicans have a 12-10 majority on
that committee but with Tillis defecting
that makes it 11 to1 and without a clear
majority Martin's nomination is dead on
arrival it's not able to leave that
committee tillis who by the way is no
moderate said that he could support
Martin for every other US attorney
position except Washington DC where
January 6 happened and so recognizing
the writing on the wall Trump announced
yesterday that he was withdrawing
Martin's nomination his interim term
expires on May 20th and without Senate
confirmation somebody else would have
needed to be appointed at the same time
we all breathed the collective sigh of
relief because after all how could Trump
possibly find someone worse than Ed
Martin yeah we were wrong if you thought
Ed Martin lacked qualifications wait
until you get a load of Janine Piro's
resume for this position yes she was a
district attorney in Westchester County
New York back in the9s but since then
her legal career has mostly consisted of
hosting TV shows and spreading
conspiracy theories i left the stage
going downstairs and I saw her and I had
to walk by her and I said "Whoopy I
fought for victims my whole life."
Something like that and she started
cursing at me what did she say tell
everybody what she said without saying
it she said "Blank you f you f you and I
said "Whoopy did you just say f you?" I
mean I was She was right here and then
she said "Get the f out of this
building." And she yelled at me again
"Get the f out of this building." And I
I felt like I was less than dirt i I
couldn't believe that I went there to
have a conversation i got thrown off the
set thrown out of the building and as I
walked away she's yelling at me "Get the
f out of this building." Sean it's sad
what these people have turned into is
sad what is happening as I mentioned
before this is the same Janine Piro who
is at the center of the Dominion Voting
Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox
News she repeatedly used her platform to
spread baseless election fraud claims
that Fox News eventually had to admit
were false when they settled the case
for $787 million a Fox producer even
warned in an email that Piro shouldn't
be put on air because she was pulling
conspiracy theories from dark corners of
the web yep sounds like the perfect
person to put in charge of an actual US
attorney's office in the nation's
capital and yet the reason that Piro got
the job here is obvious she was one of
Donald Trump's earliest and most vocal
defenders during the 2016 Access
Hollywood tape scandal she attended his
belligerent election night speech in
2020 where he falsely claimed victory
and as I mentioned earlier Trump
pardoned her ex-husband for tax evasion
charges as one of his final acts in
office in 2021 so let's be clear about
what's happening here after failing to
install a Stop the Steel organizer as
DC's top prosecutor Trump has now tapped
a Fox News host who spread election lies
and has a clear conflict of interest due
to Trump's pardon of her ex-husband this
isn't about qualifications and it
certainly isn't about justice this is
about Donald Trump installing a loyalist
who will use the power of federal
prosecution to target his enemies and
protect his allies just as it's always
been remember the US Attorney for DC
doesn't just handle local prosecutions
this office handles prosecutions of
federal crimes in the nation's capital
including those involving federal
officials and federal facilities in
other words this is the office that
would have jurisdiction over many of the
investigations into Donald Trump himself
his administration officials and his
allies in Congress so when Trump puts
someone like Janine Piro in charge of
that office he's not looking for a fair
and impartial prosecutor he is looking
for a shield and a weapon a shield to
protect him and his allies from
accountability and a weapon to go after
his perceived enemies the scariest part
of all of this is that there is
virtually no check on Trump's ability to
appoint an interim US attorney unlike
the permanent position an interim
appointment doesn't require Senate
confirmation donald Trump can put Piro
in that position for 120 days without
any congressional oversight very much in
the same way he did with Ed Martin and
in 120 days someone with a vendetta and
a point to prove can do an extraordinary
amount of damage to our justice system
from there she might be confirmed by a
rubber stamp Republican majority in the
Senate or if not who knows maybe Trump
puts Don Jr in charge because we live in
hell so why not what we're witnessing
right now is nothing less than the
weaponization of the Department of
Justice something that Trump has falsely
accused Democrats of doing for years it
is projection pure and simple and now
he's trying to make his accusations a
reality by appointing people whose sole
qualification is their willingness to do
his bidding regardless of law or ethics
if there was ever a moment to be alarmed
by the direction of our Department of
Justice under Trump this is it the
progression from Ed Martin to Janine
Piro isn't a step sideways it is a leap
further into abyss of turning our
justice system into a personal tool for
the president's retribution so as much
as we wanted to have celebrated Tom
Tillis blocking Ed Martin's nomination
we now are looking at someone even more
dangerous taking his
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