'OUTRAGEOUS!'

Judge Jeanine Snaps When Cornered on ‘Pedophile’ in Shooting Manifesto

Pirro insisted Trump was the intended victim—but bristled at linking him to the manifesto’s unnamed target.

DC Attorney Jeanine Pirro snapped at CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday after he pressed her on a basic question about the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Appearing on State of the Union, Pirro was asked where, exactly, does Cole Tomas Allen’s alleged manifesto name President Trump as the target.

Pirro insisted that Trump was “clearly” the target of 31-year-old Allen’s attack. But she bristled when Tapper pointed out that the only person named in the manifesto was Kash Patel, whom the suspect singled out as the official he wanted to spare.

Tapper then ventured as a possible identification: “He does say, and I want to apologize for using this language, but he does say, quote, ‘I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,’ unquote.”

Pirro, 74, raged at the suggestion: “First of all, that’s outrageous. I mean, there’s a lot of other things you could have referred to. This guy is a hater. He hates Trump so much he wants to kill him.”

“But is he talking about Trump in that?” Tapper pressed.

“You’re going to have to ask him that,” Pirro snapped. “I don‘t really care.”

Pirro later brushed aside commentary from Tucker Carson and others, saying she didn’t “care” what critics were saying and insisting, “We cannot blame the victim.”

Still, she offered no explanation for how Trump was definitively identified as the alleged target—even as Allen faces charges for attempting to assassinate the president.

In his alleged manifesto, Allen only specified that his “targets” were “administration officials,” “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.”

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He twice invoked an unnamed “pedophile, rapist, and traitor” as justification for the attack—but did not identify the figure.

Trump, for his part, quickly cast himself as the target after the shooting.

Asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy “why” people kept trying to kill him, Trump mused: “I’ve studied assassinations, and I must tell you, the most impactful people, the people that do the most...Abraham Lincoln...they’re the ones that they go after.”

The president boasted: “Just take a look at the names—they’re the big names—and I hate to say I’m honored by that, but I’ve done a lot."

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