Political Scandals

Twenty years ago this week, a compliant media elite aided Hillary Clinton's self-serving attempt to re-write the history of the Lewinsky scandal and her "vast right-wing conspiracy" smear of conservatives.

Gone are the days when questioning whether a judge in a Trump indictment case can be truly impartial is said to be unacceptable because the cast of MSNBC's Friday special coverage on the matter sounded the alarm whether Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon can truly be fair and neutral given some of her previous rulings.

CBS News chief political analyst and longtime liberal journalist John Dickerson surfaced on Friday’s CBS Mornings to sound off on the second Trump indictment and, interestingly, it sounded like what he said after the first indictment as it consisted of a pious lecture trashing Republicans for denouncing the charges before documents are unsealed and preferring Trump (if he were to become the…

Hours before he suddenly resigned as one of former President Trump’s attorneys in the classified documents case (which Trump said Thursday he was being indicted in), Jim Trusty made the rounds on TV Friday morning to defend Trump and, on ABC’s Good Morning America, left co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos in a hilarious pit of rage for bringing up the Biden…

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley appeared on Friday’s CNN News Central to discuss former President Trump’s latest indictment and blamed it on a curious suspect: Gerald Ford. Brinkley and host Sara Sidner also acted as if nothing has happened between Watergate and present day when wondering why Republicans do not urge Trump to step aside like they did with Richard Nixon.

After former President Trump said on Thursday night that he was being indicted, MSNBC’s Joy Reid feared that he would escape conviction because “Florida…has now become a beachhead for…Nazism.”

On Thursday we learned that President Joe Biden had allegedly received $5 million dollars from an executive of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. A company that anyone who has been paying attention knows Biden’s son Hunter was actively involved in. As if frequently the case, the three evening news broadcasts completely ignored the story.  

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell suggested on Tuesday’s edition of The Last Word that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be impeached for “selling too much of himself” to billionaire friend Harlan Crow. Later, during an interview with President and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, Michael Waldman, it was essentially admitted that their biggest problem with Thomas and the…

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu stopped by MSNBC’s All In on Monday to be interviewed by guest host and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about his decision not to seek the GOP presidential nomination and all things Donald Trump. During the discussion, the two would get into a tense argument about “Russian collusion nonsense,” with Sununu blaming the media for…

They say politics makes strange bedfellows. Monday’s White House press briefing held by the always incompetent White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP) and National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby proved that when both Daily Caller White House correspondent Diana Glebova and CBS senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked about the…

On Monday, FBI Director Christopher Wray attempted to have it both ways when it comes to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s (R-TX) subpoena by letting the committee see a document alleging then Vice President Biden was involved in a bribery scheme, while at the same time not handing it over. That didn’t fly with Comer who announced Monday that he will still seek to hold Wray in…

Over at The Hill, media analyst Joe Concha has hit directly on the difference in treatment between media coverage of the Biden family scandals and what would happen if in fact the same scandals involved a Trump family influence peddling operation raking in millions.

Wednesday’s White House press briefing featured, among other happenings, a rare feat with not one but two bouts featuring Biden flunkies and the New York Post’s Steven Nelson as well as a sudden curiosity surrounding Tara Reade now that she’s emerged as a flunky herself for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Continuing their habit from weeks prior when the news first broke, the big three evening news broadcasts ignored Tuesday’s news that FBI Director Christopher Wray blew off Congress's deadline for him to turn over documents relating to the investigation into allegations that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a bribery scheme.