Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host who’s now the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, boasted about helping the Trump campaign while she was working at Fox News, according to texts revealed in newly unredacted court documents.
The September 2020 texts from Pirro to Ronna McDaniel, then the chair of the Republican National Committee, were made public Tuesday in filings by voting technology company Smartmatic, which is suing Fox News for defamation related to its election fraud coverage.
“I work so hard for the party across the country,” Pirro texted McDaniel, according to the filings. “I’m the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President and party.”
The U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. did not immediately return requests for comment on the texts, which were first reported by The Washington Post on Wednesday.
In a text from another newly unredacted filing, Pirro discussed being with Trump in the Oval Office shortly before the 2020 election. In the messages sent to a friend, Pirro said her fellow Fox News host Sean Hannity stormed into the room and used the president’s private bathroom. She referred to him as an “egomaniac.”
