Over the target? NY Times goes after Judge Jeanine Pirro and Kash Patel

Division sowing continues from corporate media as a new report alleges that a former Fox News host turned down a gig at the FBI because of Director Kash Patel.

Following through with promises to restore law and order, President Donald Trump turned his sights on the nation’s capital last week as he authorized deployment of the National Guard and temporarily placed the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control. While some outlets fearmongered over the crime crackdown, one reporter focused on U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro as a central player after allegedly expressing “no interest” in working for Patel.

“Late last year, after Mr. Trump tapped Kash Patel, a podcaster with scant law enforcement experience, to be F.B.I. director, his aides approached Ms. Pirro about becoming his deputy,” reported Glenn Thrush of the New York Times. “She told them she had no interest in working for Mr. Patel, according to two people familiar with the exchange.”

The claim, which failed to cover Patel’s background as a federal prosecutor who went on to work as an aide and counsel to committees of the House of Representatives before a stint with the National Security Council, choosing instead to refer to him as a “podcaster with scant law enforcement experience,” came after presenting Pirro as a culturally insensitive spreader of “falsehoods,” disparaged by speed bumps to authoritarianism.

“Like many big-shot outsiders who take on medium-shot government jobs, Ms. Pirro has been aggravated by red tape, particularly requirements that she obtain approval of other officials before taking actions she would have done unilaterally as Westchester County district attorney two decades ago,” wrote Thrush who mentioned a 2019 suspension of Pirro from Fox News when she commented on Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D) hijab-wearing, “Is her adherence to this Islamist doctrine indicative of her adherence to sharia law, which is antithetical to the U.S. Constitution?”

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Contending the then-host had suggested the “wearing of a hijab was un-American,” the reporter then asserted “her falsehoods about the 2020 election put her at the center of Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against the network, which resulted in a $787 million settlement.”

Despite the points supporting the media’s broader narrative, Thrush went on to write that Pirro “has largely allowed officials to conduct their work without interference, according to several people briefed on her actions … But perception and performance are different things. And one of her biggest challenges is matching her confident public messaging with results, given the mass departures of career prosecutors and support staff.”

The attorney had her own statement to make over the weekend with multiple appearances on Fox News, including “Fox & Friends Weekend,” where she turned her comments toward protesters and said on Sunday, “You know what? Go to D.C. Experience D.C.! I want you to go there — go right ahead! But here’s what the president is gonna do. He’s gonna make a difference, we’re gonna change the laws. We’ve got liberal judges, we’ve got liberal laws — everything’s gonna change.”

“… President Trump knows what he’s doing, and right now,” she went on of the protesters, “they don’t matter.”

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