Two members of the media were heard joking on a hot microphone Tuesday about former President Donald Trump being shot by an assassin’s bullet as they waited for him to appear in federal court in Washington.
The unidentified male reporters set up their news cameras outside the E. Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse when they began complaining about the difficulty of getting a view from the 77-year-old Republican 2024 front-runner.
“You know what’s the worst part? Even if he opens his window and he hangs out, he’ll be across the street,” someone was heard saying on a live feed from the Associated Press.
“I mean, if he’s driving, we’ve got a good shot,” said the second reporter hopefully, to which the first replied: “Yeah, if he’s driving with the front window open.”
The conversation then turned to a joke about former presidents arriving in an open-top car like the one President John F. Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
“Yes, or if it’s convertible,” said the second.
“Yes, I didn’t think about that,” answered the first.
“Yeah, looks like he just pulled out -” the second started to say before the first interrupted and asked: “Like JFK?”
Members of the media waited for former President Donald Trump to appear in federal court in Washington and joked about his assassination. REUTERS Unidentified male reporters place their news cameras outside the E. Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse. Reuters
“Maybe someone, just like they told JFK, ‘You know what you should do? You should take a convertible! It’s great,'” the media member continued to laughter from his group.
Trump faces a DC appeals court panel to hear his lawyers argue that he should be immune from charges related to his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss and the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021 because he was not previously charged and convicted in connection with those events.
“To allow the prosecution of the president for official action would open a Pandora’s box from which this country may never recover,” argued Trump’s lawyer John Sauer, pointing out that under that precedent, the president could be impeached for providing Congress with “false information” to go to war or to allowing drone strikes targeting US citizens abroad.
The couple joked about the former president arriving in an open-top car like the one John F. Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Getty Images
The outcome of the arguments has major implications for the landmark criminal case against Trump, and is also likely to set the stage for further appeals before the US Supreme Court – which last month rejected a request to consider the former president’s immunity claim, but could still get involved later.
A quick decision is important for special counsel Jack Smith and his team, who are eager to get the case – currently on hold pending an immunity appeal – to trial before the November election.
But Trump’s lawyers, in addition to seeking to dismiss the case, hope to benefit from a protracted process that could delay the trial past its scheduled March 4 start date and into the summer of the presidential campaign.
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