CNN’s Chris Wallace took his 1960 election-related book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, where he lamented that the “crazy” Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity has made Special Counsel Jack Smith’s life more difficult and sarcastically claimed it was “totally coincidental” that it was a 6-3 ruling along partisan lines with three Trump appointees in the majority.
Colbert led Wallace with more of a statement than a question, “The big news today everybody's covering is Jack Smith's filing in the 2020 election case, or rather, his evidentiary filing, having to do with whether Donald Trump's actions were official, in other words, someone in office, or someone seeking office.”
Wallace continued, “I mean, we went from 250 years without presidents having immunity for official acts, and nobody talked about that with Richard Nixon and Watergate or Ronald Reagan with Iran-Contra, but suddenly an official act, you couldn't break the law, which one, strikes me as complete nonsense and two, has resulted in Jack Smith having to write this brief saying, “Well, yeah, but when he did this, yeah, he was in the Oval Office, but he was using his private phone, so it was an unofficial act.”
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