Jeanine Pirro email leak couldn’t come at worse time as Dominion defamation lawsuit heats up
Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro was almost yanked off the air, according to a leaked email written by a network exec sent in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
And no, it wasn’t because she was suspected of throwing back too many glasses of boxed wine before, during, and after taping.The dramatic email was first reported by NPR and is said to have complained that Pirro was reporting on dubious conspiracy theories found online to justify then-president Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the election had been rigged.Related: Apparently Donald Trump considers Jeanine Pirro the Tiffany Trump of Fox NewsPirro and others at the conservative propaganda network falsely accused Dominion Voting Systems, the election machine and technology company, of illegally trying to throw the race to Joe Biden by programming its software to discard ballots for Trump.“The Dominion Software System has been tagged as one allegedly capable of flipping votes,” Pirro raged during a November 2020 taping of her show, citing Trump’s disgraced campaign attorney Sidney Powell’s bogus claims about the company. “And yet, we are criticized because we’re asking questions!”Related: Fox News host Jeanine Pirro swears she wasn’t drunk during her show, but everyone else disagreesDominion filed defamation lawsuits against Fox News and several other ring-wing media outlets, conspiracy theorists, and Trump loyalists in late 2020 and early 2021.
The company says it suffered “enormous and irreparable economic harm” and projects losing upwards of $600 million in profits over the next eight years.NPR reports:The producer’s email is among the voluminous correspondence acquired by Dominion’s attorneys as part of its discovery of evidence in a $1.6 billion.
