It’s Good To Be King

The Post reports that Jeanine Pirro’s campaign manager was fired, possibly because he was paying himself $16,000 a month. (You may be asking yourself, “Campaign manager for what?” No matter.):

The 29-year-old manager of Jeanine Pirro’s now-defunct Senate campaign was fired amid revelations he paid himself $16,000 a month, a source close to Pirro told The Post yesterday.

Brian Donohue, a former Republican National Committee operative who was recruited by Pirro campaign consultant Kieran Mahoney, was let go last week as the former Westchester district attorney began a new campaign for attorney general, the source said.

“Jeanine herself made the decision to let him go,” said the source.

“He was clearly [in] over his head, inexperienced and inept — and the whole time, he’s paying himself $16,000 a month, while Jeanine was having trouble raising money.

“People were stunned when they learned the figure.”

In response, Donohue told The Post he wasn’t fired and said Pirro had asked him to stay.

He contended Pirro would soon call The Post to confirm his claim, but she didn’t.

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He confirmed paying himself $16,000-a-month, noting that Pirro might not have been aware of his huge salary.

“I decided [the salary] with other folks in the campaign,” said Donohue, who repeatedly refused to name the “other folks” involved.

Of course, Mr. Donohue could argue that his salary was actually in the ballpark of other campaign salaries — at least if you’re part of Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign . . .