Fox News host Jeanine Pirro is the one of the biggest supporters of Donald Trump on the network – and that’s saying a lot. But she surprisingly took Hillary Clinton’s side in the latest kerfuffle over her emails.
Pirro began by wrongly stating that the FBI was “reopening” the case. In fact, the FBI is reviewing new material. Nevertheless, Pirro's next comment was a jaw-dropper, coming from her:
PIRRO: FBI Director Jim Comey’s announcement yesterday that he would again look into Hillary Clinton’s emails after he announced on July 5th the conclusion of that very investigation, saying, “No reasonable prosecutor would indict,” 11 days before one of the most hotly contested presidential elections of our time, both disgraces and politicizes the FBI and is symptomatic of all that is wrong in Washington.
Now, you know I support Donald Trump and I want him to win. But whether it’s Hillary Clinton or anyone else, Comey’s actions violate not only long-standing Justice Department policy, the directive of the person that he works under, the attorney general. But even more important, the most fundamental rules of fairness and impartiality.
While you might be surprised, as I was, to see this model of Fox News off-the-chart bias, divisiveness and partisanship suddenly standing on principal for the sake of someone Pirro seemed ready to impeach just a few weeks ago, it turns out Pirro has some experience with this sort of thing.
PIRRO: Ten years ago, when I was the Republican Conservative candidate for New York attorney general, in the home stretch of a statewide campaign, the Justice Department and the FBI violated their own policy against making public statements that would affect an election and announced to the press that they were opening an investigation of me. It was mean spirited and, of course, nothing came of it. Except the adverse publicity cost me at the polls.
What was done to me in 2006 was wrong and what happened to Hillary Clinton yesterday was equally wrong.
Here’s what happened to Pirro in 2006, via The New York Times:
Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Jeanine F. Pirro, the Republican candidate for state attorney general, and Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, illegally taped conversations of Ms. Pirro’s husband last year to determine if he was having an affair.
At a hastily arranged news conference yesterday, called because of an imminent television report on the inquiry, Ms. Pirro conceded that she had her husband, Albert, followed in the summer of 2005. She said she had discussed bugging the family’s boat with Mr. Kerik, an old friend who was then running his own security business. But Ms. Pirro, who was the district attorney of Westchester County at the time, said she never went through with the plan, and she insisted that she broke no laws.
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Mr. Pirro, a prominent lawyer, Westchester power broker and a friend of state Republican leaders, has been a frequent source of embarrassment to his wife. Besides his prior conviction on tax evasion charges, investigations of his business practices have drawn scrutiny, particularly his ties to reputed mob figures, and he was ticketed twice for speeding this summer.
Look, I feel for Pirro and I can just imagine how painful and humiliating this episode was. But talking about bugging a cheating crook of a husband, while you are running for attorney general, is a much bigger deal than the FBI’s uncovering of new material that may or may not have any bearing on a matter the FBI already decided was not worth pursuing. From Newsweek:
The disclosure by the Federal Bureau of Investigation late on Friday, October 28 that it had discovered potential new evidence in its inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s handling of her personal email when she was Secretary of State has virtually nothing to do with any actions taken by the Democratic nominee, according to government records and an official with knowledge of the investigation, who spoke to Newsweek on condition of anonymity.
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There is no indication the emails in question were withheld by Clinton during the investigation, the law enforcement official told Newsweek, nor does the discovery suggest she did anything illegal. Also, none of the emails were to or from Clinton, the official said. Moreover, despite the widespread claims in the media that this development had prompted the FBI to “reopen” the case, it did not; such investigations are never actually closed, and it is common for law enforcement to discover new information that needs to be examined.
And while suggesting that she had been wronged by the Feds in her own case, Pirro went on to suggest that the FBI’s biggest mistake in the Clinton matter was not to have prosecuted her when it originally looked into the matter.
PIRRO: Had Comey done his job in the first place, had he done a real investigation… we wouldn’t be in this mess!
Pirro also promised that her show would go into every awful thing she could come up with about Clinton, her potential presidency and, yes, whether or not she can be impeached before taking office.
You’ll have to forgive me that I just couldn’t bear to watch more.
Watch it below, from the October 29, 2016 Justice with Judge Jeanine show.
From what I’ve read, the man had a long, unblemished history beforehand, so my guess is that Russia or Trump has the negatives on him or his family and has been applying the white hot heat to Comey. Do as we say, or else…
So did Comey do some preventive maintenance releasing the Clinton emails? We are pissed off about that but if the Trump/Russians thing is exposed before the election, republican heads will explode from sea to shining sea.
Typical frigging Republican.
Well if Pirro can keep her calenders straight,then maybe one day modern science will tell us why republicans are devoid of empathy.
Happy Halloween everybody!!