PBS Reporter: Republicans ‘Seizing’ on Law Professor’s Barron Trump Remark

Pamela Karlan, a law professor at Stanford University, speaks before the House Judiciary Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 4, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

A PBS reporter with a history of animus towards President Donald Trump claimed that Republicans were “seizing” on the comment Stanford University law professor Pamela Karlan made about the president’s youngest son.

“What we see now are Republicans seizing on a key moment,” PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor said during a break in the impeachment proceedings on Dec. 4. “It’s when Pamela [Karlan]—she [is] a professor who is testifying and Democratic witness—she said that President Trump could name his son Barron but could not make him a baron.”