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President Donald Trump is considering having Fox News host Jeanine Pirro take over as interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., after the current acting and nominated lawyer, Ed Martin, failed to coalesce Republican support for Senate confirmation, ABC News reported Thursday.

While some commented simply, "an outside the box choice," and "Not at all a surprise," others quickly mocked the choice.

A venerated law firm in New York was one of many to cut a deal to change its policies at the direction of President Donald Trump — and now lawyers are quitting in droves, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

And it has "left the firm in turmoil."

Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) joined Piers Morgan for a teary-eyed interview after learning he would be sent to prison for over seven years.

In an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube, Santos said he hadn't considered a pardon from President Donald Trump yet because he was unsure what his sentence would be.

President Donald Trump is considering Fox News commentator and former New York judge and prosecutor Jeanine Pirro to serve as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, ABC News reported on Thursday.

"An announcement about a new interim U.S. attorney could come as soon as today, sources said. Sources caution that plans could always change and a decision is never final until publicly announced by the president," said the report. "The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment from ABC News. A representative for Fox News press relations did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment, nor did Pirro."

One of President Donald Trump's top allies is doing the research on the new Pope Leo XIV.

Laura Loomer posted on X, "His name is Robert Prevost. He’s the first American Pope. He is anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis. Catholics don’t have anything good to look forward to. Just another Marxist puppet in the Vatican."

With the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost, now known as Leo XIV, to the papacy, President Donald Trump — who quarreled to the end with the late Pope Francis — is unlikely to feel any improved goodwill to the Catholic leadership.

And many commenters on social media had fun with the idea.

MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec warned supporters of President Donald Trump that the new Pope did not "bode well" for them.

Following the election of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, Posobiec shared his thoughts in a broadcast from Rome on Real America's Voice.

The new leader of the Catholic Church hails from the United States — and MAGA is elated. This detail is not lost on those familiar with Pope Leo XIV when he was still Robert Francis Prevost.

While the new pope, known for supporting science and giving communion to divorced people, questioned Vice President JD Vance after a statement that people who care for others only after their own family is taken care of.

The new pope may be American, but he's no fan of U.S. President Donald Trump or Vice President JD Vance.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the first U.S.-born pope in history, choosing the name Pope Leo XIV. But the 69-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church has recently used his X account to criticize Vance and Trump

Federal investigators have launched a criminal probe against New York attorney general Letitia James, who famously won a $454 million fraud judgment against president Donald Trump and his real estate company.

Federal Housing Finance Agency director William Pulte sent a letter last month to the Department of Justice requesting the investigation for alleged mortgage fraud, which attorney general Pam Bondi steered to the US Attorney’s Office in Albany, reported the Albany Times Union.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69 — now known as Pope Leo XIV — was named as the first leader of the Catholic church to come from America Thursday.

Born in Chicago, Prevost spent much of his career serving as a missionary in Peru. He was made a cardinal by the previous Pope, Francis, just two years ago. He was a strong supporter of his predecessor.