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Shrill Fox News Personality Courts the White House for Top Level Job

Shrill Fox News Personality Courts the White House for Top Level Job

Last updated on: June 7, 2018 at 2:10 pm by Susan Wright

Shrill Fox News Personality Courts the White House for Top Level Job 2018-06-07T14:10:47-04:00 Susan Wright

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This is like a bad dream.

It’s worse than a bad dream, and it can’t happen.

We’ve discussed President Trump’s dependence on his propaganda arm, Fox News (…aka… American Pravda) before. He gets his morning Twitter points directly from “Fox and Friends” in the mornings, or whoever was on Sean Hannity’s show the night before.

He’s not being given critical information. He’s having his ego stroked and whatever insane, rambling bent he’s on for the week, they pat him on the head and feed it back to him, just to keep in his good graces.

And speaking of Sean Hannity, who insanely suggested to witnesses in the Russia probe on Wednesday night that they destroy evidence, he has stiff competition in the Fox News running to be the most unhinged Trumpian boot-licker.

Judge Jeanine Pirro.

Pirro, a personal friend of Donald Trump’s from many years back has a Saturday evening broadcast on Fox News, where she routinely trashes those she sees as Trump’s enemies.

And by Trump’s enemies, I don’t just mean Robert Mueller, James Comey, or Democrat lawmakers.

She also targets Republicans who she deems insufficiently loyal to the throne. One of her favorite targets is Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

She quite recently referred to him as “the most dangerous man in America.”

Why?

Because he recused himself from the Russia probe, which led to the assignment of special counsel Robert Mueller.

Also, because he has refused to step back in and take control of the investigation and end it.

After all, in the view of lunatics like Pirro and Hannity, the job of the attorney general is to protect the president, not maintain law and order, as the nation’s top law officer.

And if you thought maintaining her position with Fox News was enough for Pirro, think again.

Sources say she wants to bring her shrieking harridan act to the Department of Justice.

A former prosecutor and judge, Pirro has repeatedly told Trump’s aides and advisers over the last 18 months that she’s interested in taking over as the nation’s top law enforcement official, according to four people familiar with the conversations.

NoNoNoNoNOOOOO!

Would Trump even consider such a thing?

Back in November, he apparently laid out a scenario for her where he might possibly nominate her for a federal judgeship. He may have just been yanking her chain, according to a former administration official with some knowledge of the conversation.

I put the blame with anyone who gets shafted by Donald Trump squarely on the shoulders of those who know his well-publicized past and still trust him to do what he says he’s going to do. If she’s waiting on that federal judgeship and hasn’t gotten it, yet, it’s her fault.

Pirro’s Fox News colleagues have laughed at her frequent mentions of the possibility of getting senior-level government work, according to one Fox employee. Two White House aides said they believe the president is not seriously considering bringing Pirro on to replace current Attorney General Jeff Sessions, despite Trump’s long-standing frustration with him.

And despite that friendship.

Trump doesn’t take well to those who try to teach or otherwise guide him through policy. He wants to surround himself with people like Pirro – worshipful lackeys.

“What he wants primarily is an audience. He really wants people who will wander into his office and pay attention while he spouts off,” said Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio.

That would explain the unending rallies, filled with people who’ve likely never had a Civics class in their lives, but have watched every episode of “The Apprentice.”

Pirro first began talking with transition aides in late 2016 about joining the administration. Though she expressed interest in the attorney general job, when it became clear that job was going to Sessions, she began pushing for deputy attorney general, according to two Trump administration officials.

So that would explain the increasingly shrill tone towards Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. She’s got it in her head that with one of them gone, she’s in.

Pirro is not thinking about America. She, like Trump, is thinking about her own access to great power, and those who aggressively seek higher office are often the very ones least worthy of the offices they seek.

In the pursuit of that higher office, Pirro is said to be talking with President Trump nightly, which means her psychotic ideas are being ladled right into his brain on a regular basis.

Even more of a danger is knowing Trump sees “TV people” as a good pool of talent to draw from.

For now, however, there doesn’t appear to be an immediate push to replace Sessions with Judge Jeanine, and even if there was, it’s highly unlikely she’d make it through the confirmation process.

Hang on to those small blessings.

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