Who Is Jeanine Pirro?

My VIP for this week is Jeanine Pirro, the new U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. She is also a former Fox News host and a former judge. She supports the mission of President Donald Trump to make Washington, D.C., safe again. She wants the city to be safe and beautiful again, even “that shining city on the hill,” as reported by Lorenzo Prieto in his article published at The Daily Signal. 

Pirro believes that the best way to do so is to lower the age requirement for prosecution because those committing the majority of crimes in Washington, D.C. are committed by “young adults in their mid-teens to early twenties.” She believes that those young adults are being “coddled” from prosecution, and they continue to commit crimes.

Lara Trump interviewed Pirro recently where she discussed the “enormous amount of crime going on in this city which is not being prosecuted.”

“So imagine this, Lara. If I have a 17-year-old who shoots someone with a gun, but he doesn’t kill that person, I cannot prosecute him or investigate him. It goes to the family court when the mission there is rehabilitation…. For 30 years, I have fought the fight to make sure that we make criminals accountable and that we protect the victim.”

Pirro has been strongly vocal on protecting young people and minorities. The U.S. attorney showed last Wednesday how thus far in 2025, 19 young adults, all members of minority communities, fell victim to gun violence in the district at the hand of individuals who “don’t have any reason to fear law enforcement.” …

Pirro told Trump Saturday her goal is protecting law-abiding citizens.

“You know, I don’t think about me and my legacy, but I guess it’s always been the same,” Pirro said. “It’s always been about fighting for a level playing field for people who can’t speak for themselves. I mean, the pain that people go through for, for no reason. They didn’t ask for it, they didn’t do anything. I want to be the person who speaks for them. I want to be the person that makes a difference for them.”