总统唐纳德·特朗普他将任命福克斯新闻频道host和前检察官珍妮·皮尔罗为哥伦比亚特区的临时联邦检察官。
特朗普在Truth Social的一篇帖子中宣布了这一选择。
特朗普周四在椭圆形办公室告诉记者，目前担任华盛顿特区临时最高检察官的埃德·马丁将会做出这一选择不接受这个职位在失去了参议院共和党高层的支持后，他被永久驱逐。
美国广播公司新闻早些时候报道称，特朗普正在关注皮尔洛的职位。
白宫没有立即回应美国广播公司的置评请求。福克斯新闻频道媒体关系代表没有立即回应ABC新闻的评论请求，皮尔洛也没有。
皮尔罗是特朗普的长期盟友，可以追溯到她在纽约担任著名检察官的时候。她是他2016年竞选的早期支持者，并在“2016年”期间公开为他辩护《走进好莱坞》”磁带丑闻。
特朗普在2020年大选中失利后，皮尔罗提出了涉及投票机的选举欺诈指控，后来成为多米宁投票系统诽谤诉讼中被点名的福克斯新闻频道员工之一，因为他传播了关于该公司的虚假指控。福克斯新闻频道最终以7.875亿美元达成和解并承认这些陈述是假的。
2019年，据报道，皮尔罗被福克斯新闻频道停职，此前她质疑民主党众议员伊尔汉·奥马尔对美国宪法的忠诚，理由是奥马尔的穆斯林信仰。
马丁一直在竞争成为美国最重要的联邦检察官办公室之一的最高检察官，自本届政府开始以来一直担任临时联邦检察官，但他的临时任期将于5月20日到期。
马丁在2021年推广了唐纳德·特朗普的“停止偷窃”运动，并在2010年被人看到出现在国会大厦1月6日攻击在美国国会大厦。
特朗普周四表示，马丁可以在司法部担任另一个职位。
特朗普在2021年离任前的最后一项行动是发布一项最后一刻的赦免皮尔洛的前夫，共和党的长期捐赠者。
在任期结束前不到一个小时，特朗普对艾伯特·皮尔罗(Albert Pirro)给予了最后一次赦免，他在20多年前被判犯有34项共谋和逃税罪，此前他被发现不当扣除了100多万美元的巨额个人支出，作为其企业的税务注销。
Trump appoints Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top prosecutor in DC
PresidentDonald Trumpsays he will appoint Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Trump announced the pick in a post on Truth Social.
The selection comes as Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday that Ed Martin, who is currently serving as D.C.'s interim top prosecutor, wouldnot be taking the positionpermanently after losing support among top Republicans in the Senate.
ABC News had reported earlier that Trump was eyeing Pirro for the position.
The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment from ABC News. A representative for Fox News press relations did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment, nor did Pirro.
Pirro has been a longtime ally of Trump, dating back to her time as a prominent prosecutor in New York. She was an early supporter of his 2016 campaign and publicly defended him during the "Access Hollywood" tapescandal.
Following Trump's loss in the 2020 election, Pirro pushed false allegations of election fraud involving voting machines and was later among the Fox News employees named in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit for broadcasting false claims about the company. Fox News eventuallysettled for $787.5 millionand admitted the statements were false.
In 2019, Pirro was reportedly suspended by Fox News after she questioned the loyalty of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to the U.S. Constitution, citing Omar's Muslim faith.
Martin, who had been vying to become the top prosecutor in one of the nation's most important U.S. attorney's offices, has served as the interim U.S. attorney since the start of the administration, but his interim term expires on May 20.
Martin promoted Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" campaign in 2021 and was himself seen on Capitol grounds during theJan. 6 attackon the U.S. Capitol.
Trump said Thursday that Martin could serve in another capacity at the Department of Justice.
One of Trump's final acts before leaving office in 2021 was issuing alast-minute pardonto Pirro's ex-husband, a longtime GOP donor.
With less than an hour before his term ended, Trump granted one final pardon to Albert Pirro, who was convicted more than two decades ago on 34 counts of conspiracy and tax evasion after he was found to have improperly deducted over $1 million in lavish personal expenses as a tax write-off for his businesses.
