CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Sunday over Tucker Carlsons suggestion that President Donald Trump could be the antichrist, only to watch her repeatedly refuse to engage with the media drama.
The exchange unfolded during an interview on Tappers program, where he highlighted the increasingly extreme rhetoric surrounding the president, according to Mediaite. Theres obviously a lot of incendiary language out there, horrific language out there, Tapper said, noting that he had just read from the writings of the alleged White House Correspondents Dinner shooter.
He didnt get that from nowhere, Tapper continued. Thats a lot crazy people saying a lot of horrific things. I want to play Tucker Carlson, your former colleague at Fox, last month talking about the president.
Tapper then introduced a clip of Carlson, who declared, heres a leader whos mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the god of gods, and exalting himself above them. Could this be the antichrist? The CNN host immediately challenged Pirro, asking, That seems incendiary too, no?
Pirro declined to take the bait, distancing herself from the commentary wars that dominate cable news. You know, whatever Tucker Carlson says is not relevant to me right now, Pirro said. I really dont care about what he says. All I care about are the facts, the evidence, and what I can prove. All of this other stuff is noise.
Tapper soon shifted to another example, invoking a social media post from former FBI Director James Comey, who arranged seashells to form the numbers 86 47 on Instagram. Comey, a longtime antagonist of President Trump and a symbol of the politicization of federal law enforcement to many conservatives, was indicted Tuesday over that post.
Another former colleague of yours, Jonah Goldberg, says that to him and Im paraphrasing here what Tucker said about the Antichrist is more incendiary than what James Comey posted on Instagram, Tapper told Pirro. And while not defending what James Comey did post on Instagram, do you see Jonahs point?
Again, Pirro refused to be drawn into a partisan back-and-forth that would blur her prosecutorial role with punditry. You know, Im really not here as a political pundit anymore, Pirro replied. Im here as prosecutor. My job is to decide whether or not I have evidence and whether Ive got 30 years in this, a prosecutor, a DA, a judge, and now the United States attorney. My job to not talk about talking heads and what they say. My job is to come here and offer to you, CNN, any evidence that we have that will answer the questions you have.
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