NYT Laments Biden Docs-Fostered Political Woes: 'Worst of All Worlds'

February 11th, 2024 9:19 AM

After a busy news day Thursday, a blooming Biden scandal made Friday’s front page via White House correspondent Michael Shear’s “news analysis,” “In Biden’s Exoneration, Political Hazard Emerges,” with the subhead “Prosecutor’s Report on Records Case Cites Memory Lapses.” Shear sounded regretful that special counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents may damage…

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Surprise! Mika Calls Out Trump's Kiss-and-Tell Fraud Investigator

January 4th, 2024 10:07 PM

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski challenges Ken Block, who had been hired by the Trump campaign to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, on his decision to make all his findings, which were contrary to Trump's interest, public.

Why Voters Are Still Supporting Trump

December 20th, 2023 5:18 PM

Why is Donald Trump so resilient? As 2023 draws to a close, the ex-president is on track to win the Republican nomination and beat Joe Biden next November. If the election were today, Trump would get his second term. Yet he’s charged with crimes that run a gamut from election interference to mishandling classified information. He’s under gag orders and lost a $5 million civil suit this year.…

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MSNBC: Trump Cases Delayed Till '25—Trump To Try To Pardon Himself

November 26th, 2023 9:59 PM

On MSNBC, legal analyst Danny Cevallos predicts that a number of the criminal cases against Donald Trump will not begin until 2025, and that if Trump is elected, he will try to pardon himself.

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Scarborough Falsely Claims Trump Would 'Institutionalize' Jack Smith

November 14th, 2023 2:39 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough falsely accuses Donald Trump of threatening to "institutionalize" special counsel Jack Smith and other DoJ officials.

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George Conway: 'Trump Will Spend The Rest Of His Life In Prison'

October 30th, 2023 12:44 PM

On Morning Joe, George Conway predicts that Donald Trump will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted in the Florida documents case and the January 6th case.

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INDICTMENT?! CBS Stunned Biden & Trump Should Be Treated Equal

October 15th, 2023 1:55 PM

Equal justice under the law is a difficult concept to understand for CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan. During an interview Sunday with Republican Congressman Mike Turner, Brennan seemed stunned that he called for both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to be treated the same for mishandling classified documents. 

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'Almost Crossed The Picket Line,' Comedy Hosts Cheer Trump Indictments

October 3rd, 2023 10:35 AM

The men of late night returned from the writers’ strike on Monday and other than CBS’s Stephen Colbert no longer censoring Donald Trump’s name, not much changed as the hosts were eager to get back to their Trump jokes.

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ABC, CBS Apoplectic Over GOP Debate Not Focusing on Trump Indictments

September 28th, 2023 1:32 PM

During the post-GOP presidential debate analysis on Thursday’s CBS Mornings and ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA), liberal journalists bellyached that the seven candidates didn’t obsess over the four indictments against former President Trump or fixate on a recent Truth Social post calling for charges to be brought against former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen.…

NewsBusters Podcast: Media Gift Trump Prosecutors a Pass on Party ID

September 6th, 2023 8:38 PM

Hot off the presses! On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I discuss a brand new Rich Noyes on NewsBusters about the broadcast networks omitting the political party connections of the prosecutors going after former President Trump. Hint: They’re connected to Democrats. We also talked about the return of The View after their summer vacation.

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Media Hide the (D) When Covering Those Prosecuting Trump

September 6th, 2023 12:00 PM

Even though the various legal cases against Donald Trump are taking place in the obviously partisan environment of a presidential election, an examination of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage finds the networks rarely identified even elected Democratic prosecutors as “Democrats.”

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TV’s Distorted GOP Primary Race: Three-Fourths Trump, 90% Negative

August 21st, 2023 8:01 AM

A new Media Research Center study finds the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts focused 74% of their GOP campaign coverage on Donald Trump, with the remaining candidates forced to split the remaining airtime. Most TV coverage of Trump (90%) was negative, but the media also bashed his nearest challenger Ron DeSantis (78% negative).

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Scarborough: 'We Don't Need To Hear' What Conservative Media Is Saying

August 17th, 2023 10:28 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says, "we don't need to hear what they [conservative media] say. It doesn't matter what they say...We all know where this is going."

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Scarborough: Trump Would Be 'Quite Dumb' Not To Give Up, Plead Guilty

August 14th, 2023 10:55 AM

Morning Joe opened its week on Monday with the argument that Donald Trump should seek a plea deal in the various criminal cases against him, with Joe Scarborough saying Trump would be "quite dumb" not to do so.