“I work so hard for the President and party,” she texted then-RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, according to court filings.

Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host who’s now the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, boasted about helping the Trump campaign while she was working at Fox News, according to texts revealed in newly unredacted court documents.

The September 2020 texts from Pirro to Ronna McDaniel, then the chair of the Republican National Committee, were made public Tuesday in filings by voting technology company Smartmatic, which is suing Fox News for defamation related to its election fraud coverage.

“I work so hard for the party across the country,” Pirro texted McDaniel, according to the filings. “I’m the Number 1 watched show on all news cable all weekend. I work so hard for the President and party.”

The U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. did not immediately return requests for comment on the texts, which were first reported by The Washington Post on Wednesday.

In a text from another newly unredacted filing, Pirro discussed being with Trump in the Oval Office shortly before the 2020 election. In the messages sent to a friend, Pirro said her fellow Fox News host Sean Hannity stormed into the room and used the president’s private bathroom. She referred to him as an “egomaniac.”

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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro delivers remarks with U.S. President Donald Trump during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House August 11, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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Pirro, along with Fox News hosts Jesse Watters and Maria Bartiromo, are all named in the lawsuit alongside the network. The filing features several instances of Fox News hosts and guests suggesting that Smartmatic’s software altered votes to steal the election from Donald Trump and hand the victory to Joe Biden, which is not backed by any evidence.

The network featured Trump lawyer Sidney Powell on Pirro’s show, “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” in November 2020, allowing her to attack Smartmatic on air.

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When reached for comment, Fox News denied any wrongdoing.

“The evidence shows that Smartmatic’s business and reputation were badly suffering long before any claims by President Trump’s lawyers on FOX News and that Smartmatic grossly inflated its damage claims to generate headlines and chill free speech,” the statement said.

“Now, in the aftermath of Smartmatic’s executives getting indicted for bribery charges, we are eager and ready to continue defending our press freedoms,” the statement continued, referring to the Justice Department charging Smartmatic executives last year for allegedly bribing the former top election official in the Philippines.

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Federal prosecutors alleged this week that the executives overbilled Los Angeles County for voting machines used during the 2020 election, then put the difference into a “slush fund” for bribing officials.

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Both Smartmatic and Fox News have asked for a summary judgment, bypassing a trial. A decision on the lawsuit from Manhattan Judge David Cohen is expected in the coming months, according to The New York Times.