Now that President Biden ended his term for a second term, the liberal media showed Wednesday a harbinger of things to come in finally admitting the charges and hubbub surrounding Hunter Biden and his life of ruin raised serious questions about his father, President Joe Biden.
While CBS Mornings skipped out, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today acknowledged Wednesday a New York Times bombshell (via documents conveniently turned over once Joe ended his campaign) that Hunter Biden ought help from the U.S. Embassy in Italy to set up meetings with Italian officials to promote the infamous Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
And, in the case of ABC, their one-minute-and-46-second report also brought up how Hunter contacted the State Department on behalf of a Romanian business partner.
Co-host George Stephanopoulos read the lead-in, so notice how these things were stated as fact and free of the side swipes that too often colored network Hunter coverage: “There’s new reporting this morning about Hunter Biden’s business dealings. The New York Times reports that he tried to get help from the U.S. Embassy in Italy for an energy deal while his father was Vice President.”
Senior national correspondent Terry Moran acted as though there was little there there in the past: “For years, reporters and some Republican lawmakers have been investigating whether Hunter Biden was trading off of his father’s name to make money on business ventures overseas when Joe Biden was vice president.”
“Now, The New York Times reports that Hunter Biden, while his father was serving as Barack Obama’s Vice President, wrote to the U.S. Ambassador in Italy seeking assistance for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma while Hunter Biden was on the board of that company. Burisma wanted to do business in Italy,” he added.
Moran noted that the story (by Ken Vogel) also found “Embassy officials appear to have been uneasy with this request.”
In response, Moran cited a Hunter attorney unsurprisingly downplaying the overture, claiming nothing happened beyond requests for help.
“The New York Times also reports that it has fought the federal government for years to obtain these documents, but their request was only granted days after President Biden withdrew from the presidential campaign,” Moran explained, as if to suggest the Burisma thread was under lock and key for years (and thus nowhere the press could go with it).
Moran concluded by invoking the other new finding on the corrupt First Son ahead of his second trial:
Hunter Biden is accused, among other things in that case, of not reporting income from foreign businesses, including Burisma. And, last weekend, a court filing in that case, prosecutors say they now have evidence that Hunter Biden contacted the State Department on behalf of an executive from Romania also while his father was Vice President. Jury selection in that case begins September 5
NBC’s Today only had the Italy part in a 45-second partial segment. Co-host Craig Melvin asked senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez to explain why Hunter was “back in the spotlight once again over this report that he asked a U.S. Ambassador for help on a business deal.”
Gutierrez explained the paper had the story “citing newly released records and interviews...that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S. Ambassador to Italy in 2016 asking for help for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where he was a board member.”
He also brought up the denials from Hunter’s attorney that it never went anywhere as well as the White House’s denials that Joe knew anything about this.
To see the relevant transcripts from August 14, click here (for ABC), and here (for NBC).
