Trump's appointed prosecutor dismissed Tucker Carlson as irrelevant during a CNN interview after she was shown a clip of the former Fox host suggesting that the president could be 'the Antichrist.'

During the interview, which aired live on Sunday, CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro whether Carlson's comment was 'incendiary.' 

The question was part of a wider national discourse about whether partisan rhetoric has been inciting political violence. 

The topic has become front and center since a gunman attempted to infiltrate the White House Correspondents' dinner last week to assassinate Trump and other administration officials. It was, at minimum, the third attempt on the president's life.

Tapper introduced the Carlson clip by saying there are 'a lot of crazy people saying a lot of horrific things. I want to play Tucker Carlson, your former colleague at Fox, last month talking about the president.' 

The segment then cut to an April 15 clip from the Tucker Carlson Show, which is the former Fox host's popular independent podcast.

'Here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the god of gods, and exalting himself above them,' Carlson said in the clip. 

'Could this be the Antichrist?' he then said. 'Well, who knows?'

'That seems incendiary, too, no?' Tapper asked Pirro after the clip ended.

'Look, you know, whatever Tucker Carlson says is not relevant to me right now,' Trump's prosecutor replied. 'I really don't care about what he says. All I care about are the facts, the evidence and what I can prove. All of this other stuff is noise.' 

'What we've got is a president of the United States – he is literally being targeted. He is being hunted,' Pirro continued. 

'And our job and the job of everyone in law enforcement is to protect that president. I don't care what people on the outside say. I disagree with them entirely, but what we cannot do, Jake, we cannot blame the victim.' 

'Oh, I'm not blaming the victim,' Tapper said before Pirro could continue. 

'Right, and I don't want other people to blame the victim either,' the prosecutor replied.

Later in the interview, Tapper discussed a controversial social media post from former FBI Director James Comey, which showed seashells arranged on a beach depicting the numbers '86 47.' 

Comey was indicted by the Department of Justice over the post last week and accused of threatening the president's life because 86 is a slang term for removing or getting rid of something, and Trump is the 47th president.

Tapper compared the former FBI director's post with Carlson's statement and asked whether the 'antichrist' comment was more incendiary than the picture of the seashells arranged into numbers.

Pirro, as Trump's appointed prosecutor in the Department of Justice, is a key figure in Comey's indictment. 

'You know, I’m really not here as a political pundit anymore,' Pirro replied.

'I’m here as a prosecutor. My job is to decide whether or not I have evidence and whether – I’ve got 30 years in this, a prosecutor, a DA, a judge, and now the United States attorney,' she continued. 

'My job is to not talk about talking heads and what they say. My job is to come here and offer to you, CNN, any evidence that we have that will answer the questions you have.'

The Daily Mail has reached out to Carlson's independent media company, the Tucker Carlson Network, for comment.