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Gregory Walter Jarrett (born April 7, 1955) is an American
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news commentator, author and attorney. He joined
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in November 2002, after working at local NBC and ABC TV stations for over ten years, as well as national networks
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and
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. Jarrett is known for his pro-Trump commentary, and for his criticism of the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. In 2018, he published ''The Russia Hoax'', which argues that the "deep state" have sought to undermine the Trump administration and protect 2016 presidential candidate
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. He has described Special Counsel
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's Russia probe as "illegitimate and corrupt" and likened the
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to the
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.


Biography

Jarrett was born in
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and raised in nearby
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, graduating from San Marino High School in 1973. He graduated ''
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'' from
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in 1977 with a degree in
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. He graduated with a
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degree from the
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in 1980, and worked as a defense attorney for several years in
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with the firm of Gordon & Rees. As of February 3, 2015, his California State Bar license is listed as "inactive." Jarrett has taught law as an adjunct professor at
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and lectured at other law schools. Jarrett joined Fox News in November 2002. Prior to joining Fox, Jarrett worked at
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. Jarrett also worked at
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, now known as
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, for eight years, serving as the anchor of ''Prime Time Justice''. He hosted the network's nationally syndicated half-hour magazine show, ''Inside America's Courts'', which was seen daily on broadcast stations (NBC in
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and
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) and weekends on
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. Prior to Court TV, Jarrett worked for a number of local stations. including KCSM-TV in San Francisco, California; WMDT-TV in
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; WKFT-TV in
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and KSNW-TV in
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. While at KSNW, he received a Heartland Emmy Award for the "Turnpike Tornado" news segment.


Pro-Trump commentary

Jarrett's legal commentary has generally defended President
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. In August 2017, Jarrett called for a grand jury for Hillary Clinton over her email controversy. A day later, when a grand jury was impaneled by special counsel
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in the investigation into
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, Jarrett said that grand juries were an "undemocratic farce". Jarrett later called the Mueller investigation "illegitimate and corrupt" on
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, stating that "the FBI has become America's secret police" and "a shadow government". Jarrett likened the
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to the
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, the Soviet security agency, for which he received ''
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''s "Pants on Fire" rating. According to ''PolitiFact'', "numerous historians of the FBI and the KGB say the comparison is ridiculous. The KGB implemented the goals of the Communist Party leadership, including countless examples of tortures and
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s. The FBI, by contrast, is subject to the rule of law and is democratically accountable". In the context of possible collusion between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the
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, Jarrett has said that any such collusion would not be a crime: "Collusion is not a crime. Only in antitrust law. You can collude all you want with a foreign government in an election. There is no such statute." According to ''PolitiFact'', the statement is false. Three prominent election law scholars said there are at least four laws that would prohibit the sort of activities under investigation, whether those laws mention collusion or not. Jarrett's focus on a single word fails to reflect the reach of the criminal code." Jarrett has said that former FBI Director
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may have broken the law by releasing a memo to press wherein Comey recounted a conversation with President Trump where Trump requested that Comey end the investigation into Michael Flynn.
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professor Bobby Chesney said Jarrett's assertion was "nonsense". University of Georgia School of Law professor
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also refuted Jarrett's assertion. In February 2018, Jarrett asserted that he had a "highly reliable congressional source" which told him that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein "used the power of his office to threaten members of Congress"; ''
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'' described the assertion as "dubious".


''The Russia Hoax''

In 2018, Jarrett published the book ''The Russia Hoax'' which alleges that "Hillary Clinton’s deep state collaborators in government" engaged in "nefarious actions" to protect Clinton and undermine Trump. The book was an
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and ''New York Times'' best-seller. President Trump praised the book. According to ''
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'' magazine, the book "amounts to 286 pages of recapping every single bad thing the Clintons have ever been accused of doing ( Uranium One is, again, mentioned dozens of times.)... The idea that the Clinton email investigation could be dropped, and the Russia investigation taken up just a few months later isn’t seen as coincidence, but conspiracy, a bit of revenge enacted by an intelligence community full of Clinton fans." In a review for ''
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'', Carlos Lozada described the book as a Trump
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. In 2018, ''PolitiFact'' highlighted five claims made in Jarrett's book as false, misleading and unsubstantiated.


Personal life

Jarrett married Catherine Kennedy Anderson September 11, 1993 at Calvary Episcopal Church in New York. They have two children. Jarrett was arrested in May 2014 by Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport police, who were called to an airport bar after reports that Jarrett seemed intoxicated and acted belligerently. Jarrett was booked into Hennepin County Jail and charged with misdemeanor interfering with a police officer as being “belligerent and uncooperative” and released on a $300 bond. The charge against Jarrett was dismissed in February 2016.
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reported that Jarrett's arrest occurred right after Jarrett had checked out of a rehabilitation facility and was dealing with “personal issues”.Tom Kludt
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, CNN (June 25, 2015).


Bibliography

* Jarrett, Gregg (2023). ''The Constitution of the United States and Other Patriotic Documents''. Broadside Books (division of HarperCollins). . * Jarrett, Gregg; Yaeger, Don (2023). ''The Trial of the Century.'' Threshold Editions. ISBN 978-1982198572. * *


References


External links


Official Gregg Jarrett Website
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