Last Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to proceed with the nomination of former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Before her tenure at Fox, Pirro had a distinguished career in law enforcement, serving as both a prosecutor and a judge in New York State. She brings extensive experience to the position.
Pirro is a well-known conservative and a staunch ally of President Donald Trump — factors that, for understandable political reasons, make her an unwelcome choice among many Democrats to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C.
In May, Pirro was tapped to serve as the interim top prosecutor for the district once it became clear that strong opposition from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) would block the path to confirmation for the previous nominee, Ed Martin.
As soon as Pirro was appointed by Trump to the position, she resigned from her role at Fox.
As the committee debated on whether to advance Pirro’s nomination, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told his colleagues a blatant lie.
I mean even her own people at Fox thought she couldn’t be trusted to be on TV on their own network. And after the show was briefly taken off the air, Fox News producer Justin Wells described, ‘They took her off cause she was crazy. Optics are bad, but she’s crazy.’Well, her own executive producer also described her as nuts. Are we going to put someone that even Fox — and I’m not a particular fan of Fox, but even Fox thought was crazy, nuts, couldn’t be trusted on live television. We’re going to trust her with the lives and liberties of people in the District of Columbia?
Schiff was operating at his usual level of veracity, which is to say he was lying through his teeth — again.
In 2019, Pirro’s show was indeed suspended after she questioned the loyalty [to the U.S.] of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). And two weeks later, her program returned.
Frankly, after all of the antisemitic and anti-American slurs we’ve heard from Ilhan Omar over the years, I question her loyalty as well.
Schiff doubled down on his lies in a social media post on Sunday. He wrote, “Fox News took Jeanine Pirro off air because ‘she’s crazy’ and ‘nuts.’ Their words, not mine. Now we’re going to trust her with the lives and liberty of the people of DC? This is just absurd.”
In the post below, John Tiegen, who survived the September 2012 Benghazi terror attack, claims Schiff slandered him personally by insisting there was no stand down order. Tiegen writes, “Yet I was on the ground, and I lived it.”
It is Schiff who is absurd, and he just might be the biggest liar in Congress. In a swamp like Washington, D.C., that’s really quite an accomplishment.
In January 2023, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy removed Schiff from the House Intelligence Committee. In an interview with Punchbowl News at the time, McCarthy said, “Schiff has lied too many times to the American public. He should not be on Intel.”
McCarthy was referring to Schiff’s insistence for more than three years that evidence of Trump’s collusion with Russia to win the 2016 election was “in plain sight.” He may have been lying, but it sure put him on the map. He had arrived in Washington in 2001 and remained virtually unknown until he recognized that his moment had arrived at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. He found his niche and he ran with it.
Happy to talk to any reporter, he soon became the “go-to guy” for anything related to the Trump/Russia investigation. Schiff was finally receiving the attention he’d craved for so long.
Crestfallen after the Mueller investigation came up empty-handed, he seized upon Trump’s July 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his next act. Schiff’s deceitful, manipulative actions in using that call to impeach Trump could fill a book.
At this point, lying isn’t just a political tactic for Adam Schiff — it’s his brand. From Russia to Ukraine, from committees to cameras, he has built a career on half-truths, distortions, and outright falsehoods.
Lying has worked for Schiff. Maybe one day it will stop working. Maybe sooner than he thinks.
Elizabeth writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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