Taking wild speculation to an absurd extreme is not normally considered the proper role of journalists. But that didn’t deter Jake Tapper from doing just that in an oh-so-solemn closing segment on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning.
Tapper keyed off a question that D.C. Circuit Judge Florence Pan had put to Donald Trump lawyer John Sauer in the claim Trump has made that he is immune from prosecution in the J6 case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. Sauer had argued that a president can only be subjected to criminal prosecution after he has been impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate for the conduct in question.
Pan asked Sauer whether that meant that if a president ordered Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival, he could not be prosecuted for it unless previously impeached and convicted for it in the House and Senate. Sauer…
