MSNBC stunned by Fox News hosts' private admissions on public ‘lies’: ‘Almost worse!’

Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host tapped as President Donald Trump's acting federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., is thoroughly disqualified by her involvement in promoting conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, former acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary McCord told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday.

This comes as voting equipment company Smartmatic released private communications of Fox News officials in their defamation suit against the network, revealing among other things that Pirro bragged to the then-Republican National Committee chair that she "worked so hard for" Trump while platforming false claims about the election, even as she privately admitted there was no evidence of any vote tampering.

"Your thoughts on what we're seeing," said Wallace. "And it's incredible to read what they said to each other privately. It's almost worse/as bad as the stuff they say on the air."

"Yeah, I have to tell you, I didn't particularly enjoy that little trip down memory lane, right, replaying those clips because, I mean, what a low point, right?" said McCord. "We have people who purport to be journalists who are just, you know, blatantly lying to the American people ... and we have more than 65 courts that threw the baseless election fraud cases out of courts, judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats and Trump himself."

"And now to see that the Fox News anchors were, you know, pretty much well aware, but for all of their different motivations ... trying to just suck up to Donald Trump and just lie about it is, you know, obviously, this is going to be very important to Smartmatic's case, but it should be important to all of us," she continued.

Regarding Pirro in particular, McCord said, "This is somebody who, if you credit what these new communications reveal was, it looks very much like one of the main reasons she was doing this was to try to be able to seek a pardon for her husband from Donald Trump, a pardon that he eventually did provide at the very end of his administration. And that looks very much like some type of a quid pro quo. Now it, you know, nothing we're seeing in there would support an outright bribery charge because that has to be very knowing and explicit. But it certainly seems like that is what her intent was."

"To think that she is now the person making prosecutorial decisions in the District of Columbia is pretty frightening," McCord added. "She should have never been confirmed."

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