FACT CHECK: Did Judge Jea­nine Pir­ro Crit­i­cize Trump Over Par­dons On Fox News’ ‘The Five?’

A viral video shared on Threads pur­ports to show Judge Jea­nine Pir­ro crit­i­ciz­ing Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump over par­dons on the Fox News pro­gram, “The Five.”

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Ver­dict: False

The orig­i­nal video indi­cates Pir­ro is not dis­cussing Trump but instead is speak­ing about Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s recent deci­sion to par­don his son, Hunter Biden. In addi­tion, a spokesper­son for Fox News denied the claim’s valid­i­ty in an email to Check Your Fact.

Fact Check:

Fol­low­ing his recent par­don of his son, Hunter, Pres­i­dent Biden is con­sid­er­ing pre­emp­tive par­dons of poten­tial Trump tar­gets, includ­ing Gen. Mark Mil­ley, accord­ing to ABC News. The Biden admin­is­tra­tion is “con­duct­ing a vig­or­ous inter­nal debate” over the poten­tial par­dons ahead of Trump’s sec­ond term, Politi­co report­ed.

The video, which has received over 2,000 likes as of writ­ing, pur­ports to show Pir­ro crit­i­ciz­ing Trump over par­dons on the Fox News pro­gram, “The Five.”

“[This] is a clas­sic exam­ple of some­one who is above the law because he was nev­er even sen­tenced. Most of the par­dons that we hear about are par­dons where some­one has served their time, they paid their debt to soci­ety, and they’re going to end up, you know, get­ting it removed,” Pir­ro says.

“It’s an imped­i­ment going for­ward. Not this case. We won’t even know what he’s being, what his sen­tence would have been. And then for him to call out the media and select a pros­e­cu­tion is absurd. A jury found him guilty. Are you say­ing that you don’t believe in the jury sys­tem any­more, Mr. Pres­i­dent?” she adds.

Mul­ti­ple pho­tos of Trump flash across the screen as Pir­ro is speak­ing.

The claim is false, how­ev­er. The orig­i­nal video of the seg­ment, which has been uploaded to YouTube, indi­cates Pir­ro is not dis­cussing Trump but instead is speak­ing about Biden and his recent deci­sion to par­don his son, Hunter Biden. Pir­ro begins speak­ing at the video’s 2:28-minute mark.

Like­wise, pho­tos of the elder Biden and his son, not Trump, flash across the screen dur­ing the orig­i­nal seg­ment, which shows that the viral Threads video has been dig­i­tal­ly edit­ed.

In addi­tion, nei­ther Pir­ro nor the White House appears to have pub­licly com­ment­ed on the claim made via the viral Threads video. Trump has not ref­er­enced the claim on his offi­cial web­site or his TRUTH Social account, either.

Check Your Fact also found no cred­i­ble news reports to sup­port the claim. Actu­al­ly, the oppo­site is true. On Dec. 4, Lead Sto­ries debunked the claim. (RELATED: Did Joe Biden Smile At A Ques­tion About Par­don­ing Hunter?)

Fur­ther­more, a Fox News spokesper­son denied the claim’s valid­i­ty in an email to Check Your Fact.

“This video is not real,” the spokesper­son said, lat­er adding, “This video did not air on [the] Fox News Chan­nel.”