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Jake Tapper reads alleged WHCD shooter's manifesto, Jeanine Pirro snaps

journalismMay 3, 2026422,196

On CNN, Jake Tapper read passages from the manifesto tied to the man accused of shooting a Secret Service agent at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro called the reading "outrageous." Tapper then confronted Pirro with a clip of Tucker Carlson suggesting President Donald Trump could be the "antichrist" and asked whether that rhetoric "seems incendiary." The heated exchange matters because it centered debate on whether airing extremist writings and linking inflammatory commentary to mainstream figures belongs in national security coverage.

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

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

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Truth Social(ist)171

Show her this and ask if this is as incendiary? Spoiler alert: it’s worse

Blobert v3.0112

“All we care about is what we selectively care about.”

Okhomegrown51

Without hypocrisy republicans would have no pocricy at all.

Helen Kennedy50

If Pirro wants to throw Tucker in the pokey, I might rethink the first amendment after all.

stiffelman.bsky.social42

Tapper is still a weakassed self-serving purveyor of pablum to maintain access.

Hagen Patrick33

"I don't want to confuse Tucker's madness with the administration's vindictiveness."

Nan McCarthy31

Anytime someone starts a reply with “Look—“ or “Listen—“ they’re buying themselves time to come up with a non-answer.

Ro27

She thinks trump the VICTIM?? Sure go into a court of law. We have EVIDENCE FOR 9 years of HIS THREATS. Shut up and sit down Pirro🤬🔥🤬

Sherry Krauss15

shes going to be hitting the juice box in the green room

Carl Sagan warned us14

Pirro is a vacuous little Trumpian sycophant incapable of rational objective thought.

k.gordon12

Surprised he didn’t ask her if she thought Biden was cognitively aware enough to be a former president.

Leaving FilmStruck11

Weak, weak answer, Ms. Pirro. Sad, sad lawyering. Immoral humaning.

Ody11

It is always the correct strategy to get fascists to turn on each other.

Josie10

Ummm Jake, no one says “crazier” or more “horrific” things than the guy occupying the white house. You should point that out. We are all victims of the trump regime except the oligarchs.

edonalife.bsky.social9

Tapper is again disingenuous: How would he know if it was staged or not? The shooter never made it to the room so Tapper has no clue what happened. What does staged mean? Staged at what level? He genuinely has no idea. He saw people running from someone who never entered the room they were in.

Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot8

I like this because she used to be a big Tucker fan.

Edmund Dunn7

And? Not to worry, Tapper is coming out with a sequel to "Original Sin" because Biden.....................

Ulf Poshbart7

I applaud her for not being drunk

Acornloaf7

Fantastic world we live in

Ido Amir6

Just be aware that this is not news. This is a non-journalist busy with self promotion interviewing a talk show host who was placed in a gov office as a favor from a mob boss who stole the Presidency, and they are talking about who said what about that mob boss, and who insulted the mob boss more.

SASSY #MeidasMighty Boomers6

Chuck Todd and his both sides questions makes him look weak and dumb.

David5

She is again not answering the question. She is in over her head., cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/05/we-d...

Dr. Pete Meyers5

You can't spell "Antichrist" without "Christ," so clearly this was a compliment.

dianecheyanne.bsky.social5

DOJ's record of losses are on track for more.

EveningStarNM5

Between Jeanine Pirro and Katherine Leavitt, which one has The Most Slappable Face In Human History? It's got to be one of them. Can we take a vote?

cricket’s revenge5

Literally what is the point of this? How is this in any way productive? Jack Tapper sucks

iamsauerkraut.bsky.social5

Carlson did not simply suggest the orange turd is the antichrist, he flat out said it. And denied it in his interview with the NYT. Carlson is a liar who will say whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear at any particular moment even it if contradicts what he said 5 seconds before...

Curmudgeon675

Her fucking job is not "to protect the president". wikipedia: By statute, the U.S. attorney is responsible for prosecuting both federal crimes and all serious crimes committed by adults in the District of Columbia.

Jake4

Simple translation: Pirro's the next cunt auditioning for Attorney General.

nbrockmann.bsky.social4

I take issue (vigorously) with Tapper characterizing the description of Trump as a rapist, pedophile, and traitor as “a lot of crazy people saying a lot of horrific things.” That’s the truth, Jake. It might be startling to you, if you’ve never actually looked it in the fucking face before.

TallyAnnaE ☮️🌊 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙🦋🐸4

Pirro's job is to protect the president? That's what she said.

mikeocon.bsky.social4

I hate that the media is framing this as a "who said what" argument instead of a first amendment argument.

Rita 🌻4

Jake Tapper just sits there and lets Pirro get away with complete nonsense. It reminds me of why I stopped watching him and CNN.

Vaudeville Vanillin3

She brings up ‘victim blaming’—when it has zero to do with the discussion—because she can’t even pretend to extricate herself from the pathological conservative persecution complex. ‘Conservatives innocent, liberals evil’ and to even question the former is ‘victim blaming.’ And Tapper just watches

Austin Sikora3

#BreakingNews #Rapture #Satire #ApocalypseNow #DarkComedy #ViralStory #EndTimes #Storytime #FYP #TikTokStory #AbsurdHumor #AltNews open.substack.com/pub/austinsi... it has begun!

tim3

Unlike Jake and Jeanine, I’m Fine with blaming the victim. He’s as much a source of hateful rhetoric as anybody. Oh and yes, Jeanine, you did release the videos. When will the investigation on the K-9 cop who we saw chatting with Allen right before he stormed in?

Carl Tinsley3

The WHCD "assassination attempt" was not staged. It was anticipated and utilized.

Kim3

Won't someone think about Donald Trump, the poor little victim

Heidi in Montana3

Pirro says we "can't blame the victim." (Trump) And Tapper says "I'm not blaming the victim." WHY???? The "victim' is the one who's created this insufferable hell we're all living through. Blame him, Jake. The evidence is clear and abundant.

pissing in the wind3

I don’t think I’ve seen her sober before.

Catherine2

Tapper is full of himself as usual and Pirro still trying to be relevant

Matt 🎙️🏀💙🧡2

She doesn’t care about other incendiary language, just the made up stuff.

Hope ☄️ (NO DMS!)2

Jeanine Pirro should just stick to what she knows, drinking hard liquor. That's her TRUTH. Beyond that, caring isn't her specialty.🥃🍷🍸

ogdennutgoneflake2

It’s important for CNN to give a successful alcoholic, Jeanine Winebox, a national forum to spew nonsense. I however, prefer news.

Blobert v3.02

Btw, Tapper is an idiot.

Gaily Whaley2

She says we have no right to discuss any of this. We have every right to discuss this. It all concerns us. She seems to think that we are here to serve her and them. Fucking GOP.

Dragonlou 🍁 #ElbowsUp 2

Yeah, not staged. Tapper was the there. The shooting was real. We now know one secret service person shot another secret service person. The suspect never fired a shot. 🙄

JohnVanadaKelley2

Jake Tapper, coward. The question is a direct, does Pirro actually believe a picture of seashells is a threat? Really? It’s a picture of seashells. Followed up by how much drinking is old Jeanine doing these days.

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, D.C.’s top federal prosecutor, said ballistic evidence shows the alleged assailant at the White House correspondents’ dinner shot at a Secret Service officer.

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