'Reckless maniac': Fox News bosses reveal real opinion of 'insane' Jeanine Pirro

Before Trump appointed Fox News entertainer Jeanine Pirro U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, NPR reports she already had a reputation with her old bosses at Fox.

"Insane," is how one Fox corporate board member described one of her public statements, according to NPR.

"Reckless maniac," is how a Fox News executive put it.

“I don't trust her to be responsible," another executive admitted.

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Still another company head was horrified at Pirro’s “tendency to find random conspiracy theories on weird internet sites."

NPR reports these opinions were lifted from legal documents made public last month in a defamation lawsuit brought by Smartmatic, a voting technology company, against Fox News. Pirro is named as a defendant. The critiques circulated when Pirro was at the top of her purported game at Fox as an explosive entertainer fond of big, blaring statements and claims, similar to the breathless threats and “federal assault” prosecution Pirro lobbed at a man who hurled a hoagie at a U.S. border agent in Washington, D.C.

“He thought it was funny. Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today because we charged him with a felony assault on a police officer, and we’re going to back the police to the hilt. So, there — stick your subway sandwich somewhere else,” Pirro shouted into her office camera.

A federal grand jury did not agree, handing Pirro her second defeat at indicting D.C. residents protesting President Donald Trump’s flood of federal agents on local streets.

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“The U.S. attorney can try to concoct crimes to quiet the people, but in our criminal justice system, the citizens have the last word,” said defense attorneys for Sidney Lori Reid, who Pirro tried to prosecute allegedly placing herself between ICE agents and someone they were detaining. “We are anxious to present the misdemeanor case to a jury and to quickly clear Ms. Reid’s name.”

NPR reports former Trump senior official Sarah Isgur saying the jury was still out on whether Pirro can be an effective prosecutor.

"At some point in the near future, she's going to be really tested — like all U.S. attorneys with these kinds of big posts are," said Isgur. "And we'll find out whether those comments were prescient or whether she really does understand the difference between the two hats."

Read the full NPR report at this link.