US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro dismissed comments by Tucker Carlson as “not relevant” while discussing partisan rhetoric on CNN.
Pirro made the comment after being asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if her former Fox News colleague’s remarks about President Donald Trump being the “Antichrist” were “incendiary.”
“There’s obviously a lot of incendiary language out there, horrific language out there,” Tapper said during the “State of the Union” interview. “I just quoted from some of it from the alleged [White House Correspondents’ Dinner] shooter, who didn’t get that from nowhere. That’s a lot of 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 plays Jeanine Pirro a clip of Tucker Carlson recently suggesting Trump is the antichrist, and asks her if she thinks that language is as incendiary as James Comey’s seashells pic.twitter.com/XCJ05ktCYe
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He then played the clip of Carlson saying, “Here’s a leader who’s mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the god of gods, and exalting himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist?”
“That seems incendiary, too, no?” Tapper questioned Pirro.
“You know, whatever Tucker Carlson says is not relevant to me right now,” the former judge and prosecutor replied. “I really don’t 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.”
“What we’ve got is a president of the United States, he is literally being targeted. He is being hunted,” Pirro continued. “And our job and the job of everyone in law enforcement is to protect that president. I don’t care what people on the outside say. I disagree with them entirely, but what we cannot do, Jake, we cannot blame the victim.”
“Oh, I’m not blaming the victim,” Tapper interjected.
“Right, and I don’t want other people to blame the victim either,” Pirro noted.
But Tapper did not let it drop, attempting to bring up Carlson’s comments again in light of former FBI Director James Comey’s seashell post.
“Another former colleague of yours, Jonah Goldberg, says that to him — and I’m paraphrasing here — what Tucker said about the Antichrist is more incendiary than what James Comey posted on Instagram,” he said. “And while not defending what James Comey did post on Instagram, do you see Jonah’s point?”
“You know, I’m really not here as a political pundit anymore,” Pirro responded, refusing to take the bait again.
“I’m here as a prosecutor. My job is to decide whether or not I have evidence and whether I’ve got 30 years in this, as a prosecutor, a DA, a judge, and now the United States attorney. My job is not to talk about talking heads and what they say,” she added. “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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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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