As we saw on Wednesday
morning and
evening, ABC News was almost foaming on Thursday’s
Good Morning America with a half-dozen shrieks of
“no evidence” over House Republicans voting to formally launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden and allegations he was enriched by foreign business dealings involving his corrupt son Hunter (and brother Jim). At one point, they even implied it might not even be constitutional.
Co-host and former Clinton tool George Stephanopoulos huffed in a tease that the GOP has
“present[ed] no evidence of wrongdoing by the President”. In a chyron for the actual segment, ABC even made sure to include the line
“No Evidence of Wrongdoing.”
Stephanopoulos had the setup there as well, seeming to imply the entire exercise could be legally dubious:
“To Capitol Hill now where House Republicans voted last night to approve a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden despite presenting no evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors, which is the constitutional standard for impeachment.”
With senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott
busy advancing the cause of baby killing as “health care” and chief Biden apple polisher Mary Bruce covering for Team Biden on Israel, the task here fell to senior White House correspondent Selina Wang.
Wang clearly understood the assignment:
[T]here is still no evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden, but House Republicans say this is about strengthening their investigations while Democrats say this is a sham intended to help his Republican rival, Donald Trump. This morning, House Republicans are pushing ahead with an impeachment inquiry into President Biden despite finding no evidence of wrongdoing in nearly a year of investigations..
She made sure to keep Hunter’s life of ruin as esoteric as possible:
“The inquiry is focused on allegations that the President abused his power to enrich his family and whether he made decisions while Vice President to boost his son Hunter’s businesses...[H]e has been under scrutiny by Republicans for his work with companies in Ukraine and China.”
Since it had been a few seconds, Wang again had to say the phrase:
“So far, there’s no evidence of the President’s involvement.”
Wang did run soundbites from both Hunter Biden and two congressional Democrats plus three from Republicans (including two from House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer).
Her conclusion about President Biden’s formal reaction showed how in sync ABC is with the left:
President Biden issued a scathing statement, saying House Republicans are focused on attacking him with lies instead of making American lives better. Now, some Democratic lawmakers tell me that that contrast could even help the President’s re-election chances in 2024.
As for
CBS Mornings and NBC’s
Today, they varied in degrees of defense, indifference, and surprising fairness.
CBS co-host and
Democratic donor Gayle King made sure to do her part in a tease:
“House Republicans open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, despite a lack of evidence in connection to his son Hunter.”
The show’s “Eye Opener” usually ends with a late-night comedy show clip, so they naturally selected CBS’s
Late Show host Stephen Colbert mocking Republicans.
Congressional correspondent Nikole Killion had the only network mention that the regime (via inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre) admitted “President Biden was familiar with what his son was going to say before he showed up here at the Capitol.”
Like she did on Wednesday morning, she stayed away from the hijinks and framed both sides (though only at a surface-level).