Before President Donald Trump made Jeanine Pirro one of the nation’s top law enforcement officials, her colleagues at Fox News badmouthed her false 2020 election claims as “insane.”

A trove of legal documents made public as part of a defamation suit brought by voting technology company Smartmatic against the network reveal that Pirro, now the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, was a constant headache for executives at Fox News, even as she remained one of the network’s most prominent hosts.

In 2020, Pirro, 74, frequently promoted Trump’s baseless claims that voting technology companies had rigged the presidential election and were to blame for his loss to Joe Biden.

“Reckless maniac,” Fox News executive Jerry Andrews wrote to another colleague about Pirro shortly after the elec

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