Working with Democrats this week to avoid a government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling work to change the establishment "paradigm," and it was time for President Donald Trump to break from the stalemated GOP "that can't get anything done," Judge Jeanine Pirro, now a Fox News host, said.
"For nine months, the Republican establishment, which continually criticizes him and backbites, can't get anything done, then it's time for the president to move across the aisle," Pirro told "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y. "And he's tried to do that before. This isn't the first time. But you know what? Let the Republicans be shocked.
"Let them understand that this president is the outsider. He's not going to stand there and support them just to get things done because he's a Republican. No, that's not who the man is."
Pirro said with the "swamp" failing to move before this time of need – amid the destruction of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and the pending doom of Hurricane Irma in Florida – President Trump is a "deal maker," and had to work with the Democrats he has so often denounced as "obstructionists."
"The Establishment is out to get Donald Trump," Judge Pirro told host John Catsimatidis. "I can't blame him, and 'I said good for him.'
"Not only is he gonna shake up the establishment, he's gonna change the paradigm. People in Washington have to understand that this man is going to do what's right for us."
Judge Pirro said criticism from the GOP in working with the Democrats during this time of need is "hypocrisy," because those in the GOP "swamp" have been the first to break from the president themselves.
"The truth is as soon as the president does something they don't like, they are the first to criticize him," Pirro said of Republican leadership in Congress, notably House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
". . . What we are seeing is the hypocrisy and double-talking politicians. That's why we need to have term limits. These people have to go. The president can have only two terms. They shouldn't be for more than two."
President Trump is going to hold on to his voter base with or without establishment support in D.C., Pirro said.
"We need a president who will do what we sent him to Washington to do and that's to clean that swamp," she added. "And the American people support him, although the polls may not say it – not that we should respect that given the last election – but the American people understand what's going on, and they support him."
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