Jeanine Pirro Turned Down The Number Two Spot At The FBI: ‘No Interest In Working For’ Kash Patel

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Aug 17th, 2025, 1:59 pm

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Glenn Thrush revealed in a new report that former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro declined President Donald Trump’s invitation to serve under FBI Director Kash Patel .

Thrush wrote that “Late last year, after Mr. Trump tapped Kash Patel, a podcaster with scant law enforcement experience, to be F.B.I. director, his aides approached Ms. Pirro about becoming his deputy,” citing two sources familiar with the exchange.

But Pirro, whose legal experience includes serving as a prosecutor and judge in New York’s Wes

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