In court depositions, Janine Piro said Smartmatic didn’t abolish Biden’s election despite allegations on air by her and other Fox News hosts.
Who is Jeanine Pirro, US lawyer at DC?
Former Fox News host, Janine Piro, a US lawyer for President Donald Trump, confirmed the role of 50-45.
WASHINGTON – A prominent Fox News host, a friend of President Donald Trump and now the Chief Justice Department of Justice, Janine Neu Piro has repeatedly tried to support Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election by claiming widespread voting machine fraud.
However, newly filed court documents allege that Pillo later believed there had been no fraud or failure of the voting machine, and that he admitted during the court’s oath deposition that Trump lost in her own words, believing that he was “fair and free.”
The document was filed on August 19 by lawyers for Smartmatic Voting Technology Company as part of a continuing $2.7 billion delinquent litigation against Fox, originally filed in February 2021.
Smartmatic’s Lawswuit alleges that Fox News’ Pirro and others misinformed Smartmatic in a structured plot to steal elections from Trump.
That claim was exposed by numerous investigations, including US cybersecurity and infrastructure security agencies. This said in a November 2020 statement that “there is no evidence that the voting system has been deleted or lost, a change in vote, or in any way violated.”
Pillo was confirmed as a US lawyer for the District of Columbia on August 2nd, and is currently ordering one of the nation’s largest federal prosecutors and Investigation Bureaus.
The job of a US lawyer generally does not involve election issues, but the office led the prosecution of Trump supporters who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, overturned Biden’s victory and made efforts to hold Trump in office. After taking office, Trump forgives the majority of those defendants and notifies others of sentences.
In Smartmatic’s “An indisputable Statement of Material Facts,” Smartmatic quotes Pirro in one of two depositions in November and December 2023, “We believe that Smartmatic will not show that it is engaged in the matter.”
This is a major shift from Pilro’s claims on November 21, 2020 “Judge Janaine” show, explaining the cases that Trump’s lawyers have been laid out. You can reverse the vote. ”
“You work for people.”
Many Fox News on-air personalities, including Pirro, have repeated the falsehood of “stolen elections” even after what people inside and outside Fox News were either false or at best unproven, wise attorney J. Erik Connolly and other lawyers said in new submissions. The quotes include Maria Bartilomo, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Jesse Watters.
However, legal analysts say Piro’s comments in her deposition show a level of partisan level and willingness to mislead the public who should be disqualified from holding such a top position in the DOJ.
“If you’re in the Justice Department, you’re working for people, and your job is to manage the laws of the country, and it’s very hard to trust that the people who Trump has taken power are doing that.”
That’s especially true of Pilro, Gilbert told USA Today:
Pirro oversees a wide range of lawsuits, including white-collar crimes, civil rights violations and terrorism, drug trafficking and cross-border threats, and more recently, charges stemming from Trump’s federal agents and the surge in National Guard forces to Washington, D.C.
Pilro’s career as a judge, district attorney
Pillo served 15 years in Westchester County, New York before being elected judge at Westchester County Courthouse. She spent 12 years as an elected Westchester district attorney.
A spokesman for Fox News will not respond beyond the company’s statement regarding the latest court application. This “shows evidence that Smartmatic’s business and reputation potentially false claims have been made. The statement also said that Smartmatic “severely inflated its claims of damage in order to generate headlines and make freedom of speech cold.”
Fox News said that in the legal response, what was important in the honor loss case was not what Pirro now believes, but her state of mind in November 2020.
Fox’s own incontroversial facts statement said that if they didn’t think they had the truth after the 2020 election, they would have “before they would have been involved in the debate” of the Trump campaign’s election and fuel allegations.
Pirro’s DOJ office and the White House did not respond to requests for comment on the new court documents.
But before confirming the senator last month, White House spokesman Harrison Fields defended Piro’s qualifications, saying, “A very respected and skilled lawyer and judge Judge Janine is dedicated to President Trump’s agenda to restore the security and justice of our country’s capital.
Smartmatic declined to comment specifically on Pirro.
More widely, the company said in a statement, “Fox executives and their character have consistently lied to viewers. When they were willing to destroy Smartmatic’s reputation, they knew what they were saying was not true, but when they were making their vows they admitted they knew much better.”
The parties are seeking the case to a judge or to resolve it quickly.
Smartmatic’s ongoing case relies on evidence similar to the lawsuit brought by the Dominion voting system, which Fox settled in 2023 for $787.5 million. However, the new tranche of the 468-page unedited document filed in the New York Supreme Court provides more detailed details as it includes a newly unedited version of previously released court filings.
“Reckless Mania”
Smartmatic’s lawyers allege that when Trump fought to take office after losing the November 2024 election, Piro would use her show to promote unfounded allegations that Dominion and its competitor Smartmatic conspired to rig the election against Trump.
Many of Piro’s comments advanced the false theory that machines created by Dominion are being used to overturn Trump-for-Biden’s votes. Her use of the Fox News Show became very concerned as she questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election, and the network cancelled one of her episodes out of fears she might say, Smartmatic claims.
Pirro was warned against making such claims by Jerry Andrews, executive producer of Fox News Live Weekend Primetime in late 2020.
“We should be very careful about these things and protect ourselves given the ongoing appeal of evidence that hasn’t happened (about the election being stolen),” Andrews told her in one email from the November 3rd election. “You (Pirlo) need to be very careful.
Pirro responded by saying he had spoken with Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media. “I know how to handle it,” she told the producer, Smartmatic said.
Nevertheless, some of the claims of election fraud have allegedly claimed Pirro’s draft accusations against her show. This was still airing during the opening monologue on November 14th, when Fox’s news “Brainroom” was found to be “wrong.”
In another email cited in the court application, Andrews called him a “reckless maniac” because he aired false claims about the stolen election, despite being told he was wrong about the election that had Pillo stolen.
Pirro’ doesn’t think Smartmatic was equipped with elections
Overall, Pillo was abdicated twice in 2023 by SmartMatic and once by Dominion.
A Connolly spokesman said that the wise deposit has been compiled and a lawsuit is underway to determine what will be published.
However, the new filing includes those snippets, detailing Pirro’s private beliefs.
“Jeanine Jeanine Justice Host Jeanine Pirro doesn’t believe Smartmatic either equips the 2020 election or conspires with Dominion to rig the 2020 election,” the court filed on August 19th.
“She doesn’t think that fraud is lying, lying, change is lying, or lying overseas. Even now, years after her publication, “I believe that Smartmatic doesn’t show that she’s involved in the matter,” the court filing says.
Pillo also admitted to receiving information from Dominion exposes election fraud claims before it can be found. We have confirmed that there are no extensive voting operations from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). And after confirming that election fraud claims are false from Fox News’ “Brainroom,” Smartmatic says it cites Pirro’s own depository in a recent, unedited submission.
“Despite what she and others said on her show, “Pirlo believes that the 2020 election is ‘fair and free’,” Smartmatic said.
