Former Fox Information anchor and present Trump cupboard member Jeanine Pirro has had her personal textual content messages uncovered amid a defamation lawsuit led to by Smartmatic towards the community.
As first reported by The Washington Submit, a latest court docket submitting unveiled bombshell textual content messages by which Pirro referred to as out her fellow Fox Information host Sean Hannity and admitted to utilizing her present, Justice with Choose Jeanine, to assist Donald Trump and the Republican Celebration. The submitting additionally notes how Fox Information has guidelines towards on-air expertise being concerned in politics.
“I work so onerous for the get together throughout the nation,” Pirro wrote in a textual content message to then-Republican Nationwide Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel in 2020. “I’m the No 1 watched present on all information cable all weekend. I work so onerous for the President and get together.”
In one other message, she branded Hannity an “egomaniac,” texting a buddy in October 2020 that he “[stormed] in [to the Oval Office] like he owns the place, throws his papers on the Pres desk and says, you don’t thoughts if I exploit your personal rest room, and walks into rest room inside Oval and makes use of it. Seems at me and says, I obtained to speak to him … It’s all abt him, interval. Nobody else issues.”
After Fox selected to not run the November 7, 2020, episode of her present, Pirro texted Hannity, “I’M TIRED OF THE CENSORSHIP AND I’M EMBARRASSED BY HOW THEY CALLED THIS ELECTION.”
“Fox Information selling u each 5 seconds. It’s hilarious,” Hannity replied.
Pirro served as an anchor on Fox Information from 2011 to Could 2025. On Could 8, Trump named her as the US legal professional for the District of Columbia earlier than confirming her to the total place on August 2.
The stunning texts had been launched as a part of a lawsuit filed by voting machine producer Smartmatic towards Fox for allegedly spreading falsehoods and conspiracy theories about its merchandise within the aftermath of Trump’s 2020 presidential election defeat to Joe Biden. The corporate is searching for $2.7 billion in damages.
Fox Information denied the claims in a press release, writing, “The proof exhibits that Smartmatic’s enterprise and repute had been badly struggling lengthy earlier than any claims by President Trump’s attorneys on Fox Information and that Smartmatic grossly inflated its harm claims to generate headlines and chill free speech. Now, within the aftermath of Smartmatic’s executives getting indicted for bribery expenses, we’re keen and able to proceed defending our press freedoms.”
The community beforehand settled an identical defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Programs in 2023 for $787.5 million.