WASHINGTON — DC’s top prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, dished on her surprisingly amicable relationship with Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser, but dinged her for getting “rolled” by the Left during an exclusive interview on “Pod Force One.”
The outspoken former Fox News host, turned US attorney, explained that she “made it a point to meet” with Bowser “early on and to make friends with her” shortly after she became the top federal prosecutor in the city.
“She’s a very nice person if you can just get rid of the politics,” Pirro observed during her interview with The Post’s Miranda Devine.
“She realizes now that her future depends upon the prosperity and safety of this city, and once you get to the common ground, then it’s easy. It’s easy to work together.”
During the first Trump administration, Bowser had a famously rocky relationship with the president, particularly clashing with him during the protests that shook the city in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.
This time around, Bowser has courted something of a detente with President Trump, carefully refraining from stoking his ire while looking for common ground.
That approach, which contrasts the brass-knuckled antics many grassroots Democrats want to see, was put to the test over the summer when Trump federalized DC’s Metropolitan Police Department and dispatched National Guard troops to the nation’s capital.
“I can’t credit myself with that,” Pirro said when asked if she “smoothed the wheels for the DC intervention that Trump made” in the country’s capital.
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Pirro took note of how Bowser has quietly pushed to remove DC’s sanctuary city law, which restricts local police from cooperating with the federal government on enforcing immigration law.
“She gets rolled herself,” Pirro said, when prompted by Devine about some of the liberal policies DC has enacted under Bowser’s watch.
“Those are decisions that she has to make. She’s a politician, and she runs for office now, but with the President and the Attorney General, Pam Bondi also.”
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Bowser, a staunch proponent of DC statehood, has been keen on minimizing federal intervention in her city.
Under the Home Rule Act, Congress retains the power to overrule local DC policies. Two years ago, Congress quashed city legislation that Bowser previously unsuccessfully vetoed.
Multiple Republican lawmakers have floated rollbacks of various DC policies and even eliminating the city’s self-governance, instead putting the nation’s capital under the direct purview of Congress.
Pirro also touted Trump’s efforts to improve DC.
“What the President is doing is he is working on making D.C. safe and beautiful by making sure that he has discussions with people in D.C. who can help make D.C. safe and beautiful,” she explained.
“I’m just one piece in the cog.”
