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Pre-Written Field Reports – CNN

Jake needs to bone up on the basics of court activity.

If it is Sunday, that means there was a case of a Republican shaming a pundit by delivering inconvenient truths. For this latest iteration, it was Jake Tapper’s turn to run into a buzz saw of inconvenient facts, as he spoke with Speaker Mike Johnson on the James Comey developments. Since Jake is in the press, that means he is by default deeply bothered by this development, and it strung him up.

Jake took the condescending approach by trying to pin down Johnson for being the Speaker as well as a constitutional lawyer, and therefore, would be unable to squirm out of Jake's withering accusation that Comey was being prosecuted by a corrupt and vengeful president.

You get the sense that Johnson held back the boisterous laughter as he dug into this question. He calmly disassembled Jake’s accusation by explaining that Trump and the DOJ did not bring these charges forward, but that a Grand Jury of citizens found there was just cause to bring these charges. Tapper’s little trap was dispelled faster than yanking the string on a party popper.

CNN’s Jake Tapper: “As a constitutional attorney and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, do you believe it's acceptable for any president to publicly or privately instruct their Attorney General to prosecute a political opponent and go as far as firing a US attorney if… pic.twitter.com/8fE3Fk04pi

News Avoidance Syndrome – THE ATLANTIC

For many in the press, history began in January during the inauguration.

Adam Serwer is also bothered by the Comey indictment (again, journalist, so naturally…), and he looks ahead at how to thwart this effort from the........

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