{"id":38007,"date":"2018-05-25T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38007"},"modified":"2018-05-25T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T20:31:05","slug":"fox-news-judge-pirro-if-i-were-in-charge-the-president-would-be-playing-golf-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38007","title":{"rendered":"Fox News &#8216;Judge&#8217; Pirro: If I Were in Charge the President Would Be Playing Golf Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never let it be said that Fox News doesn&#8217;t have its priorities in the right place. They know their mission is to advance the interests of Donald Trump and his perversion of Republican Party politics. They dutifully pursue that mission with enthusiasm for the propaganda they espouse throughout their broadcast day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-pirro-hearts.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Jeanine Pirro\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38008\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2155371847810932\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most devoted disciples of Fox&#8217;s Trump Cult is <em>&#8220;Judge&#8221;<\/em> Jeanine Pirro. Her spittle-inflected ravings are a unique spectacle on cable news. Even Sean Hannity&#8217;s fawning adoration of Dear Leader doesn&#8217;t reach the passionate infatuation expressed by Pirro on every episode of her relentless Trump-fluffing program. After all, she <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37905\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently declared<\/a><\/strong> that Trump had <em>&#8220;fulfilled the biblical prophecy of the gods.&#8221;<\/em> And on Friday morning she proved why she is viewed as the Fox <em>&#8220;personality&#8221;<\/em> who has the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/05\/jeanine-pirro-has-a-direct-line-into-trumps-brain\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most direct line to Trump&#8217;s brain<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Pirro was interviewed Friday on Trump&#8217;s favorite Fox News program, Fox and Friends (video below). The segment began with a discussion of whether Trump should sit for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. Co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Pirro what she would do if she were in charge. <em>&#8220;If I were in charge,&#8221;<\/em> she began, <em>&#8220;the President would be playing golf right now. There is no way the President should appear before Bob Mueller.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OK then. Not only is Pirro against Trump talking to Mueller, she apparently isn&#8217;t keen on him doing any presidential work either. She wants Trump to be doing what he does more than anything else: visiting his luxury resorts and playing golf. That&#8217;s something he has already done <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/03\/politics\/trump-golf-100-days\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 100 times<\/a><\/strong> since taking office. And to tell the truth, most Americans would also probably prefer that Trump camp out at Mar-A-Lago rather than do more damage to the nation. But Pirro wasn&#8217;t finished giving her view of Trump&#8217;s responsibility to the people. But her reasons for having the President avoid a sit-down with Mueller are sorely lacking in reason:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Think about it. If a sitting president cannot be indicted, and this president were to be questioned, it would only be for the purpose of an indictment. The legislative branch is not gonna be in a position &#8211; which is what Mueller would like &#8211; to get the testimony of the President so that they can then use it to impeach him. That&#8217;s the problem.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s the problem? Pirro isn&#8217;t making sense. First of all, there is no law prohibiting the indictment of a sitting President. It&#8217;s a rule within the Justice Department that can be changed at any time and has never been tested in court. Trump&#8217;s TV lawyer Rudy Giuliani has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37931\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tried miserably<\/a><\/strong> to make the same argument. More to the point, Pirro says that Mueller only wants Trump&#8217;s testimony so that Congress can impeach him. Which implies that Trump has something to say that would warrant impeachment. Yes, Jeanine, that is a problem. And it&#8217;s also a problem when a president is afraid to talk with a law enforcement investigator. Is there any better indicator of guilt?<\/p>\n<p>Pirro&#8217;s opposition to impeachment, however, is limited to its use against Trump. Later in this interview she insisted that Justice Department investigators, including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, should be impeached. Never mind that she offered no justification other than her rabid hostility to anyone who is even tangentially critical of her White House boyfriend. The whole strategy of the White House and its PR division (aka Fox News) is to demean the nation&#8217;s institutions of law in order to convince their base that there is massive conspiracy against Trump. But the truth is that it&#8217;s reality that is conspiring against the President and his frantic and irrational behavior is proof that he knows it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5789618740001&#038;w=550&#038;h=310\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never let it be said that Fox News doesn&#8217;t have its priorities in the right place. They know their mission is to advance the interests of Donald Trump and his perversion of Republican Party politics. They dutifully pursue that mission with enthusiasm for the propaganda they espouse throughout their broadcast day. One of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,16],"tags":[554,879,33,39,1092,1247,1262],"class_list":["post-38007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-impeach","tag-jeanine-pirro","tag-robert-mueller","tag-rod-rosenstein"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9T1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41027,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41027","url_meta":{"origin":38007,"position":0},"title":"Judge Jeanine Pirro Returned Saturday Night &#8211; on Fox News and SNL &#8211; And Both Were Hysterical","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/31\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Two weeks ago \"Judge\" Jeanine Pirro was suspended from her weekly perch on Fox News after she made comments so reprehensible that they even offended the suits at Fox. 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