Hunter Biden trials

Monday provided many of the late night comedians with their first opportunities to react to former President Trump being found guilty in his New York trial. They invoked everything from advent calendars holding whiskey to Blu-ray recorders to bad Hunter Biden analogies to applaud the verdict and attack Republicans for condemning it.

The networks must have collective whiplash. The brutality and edge of their coverage of former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan business records trial is eclipsed by the collective tenderness with which they’re handling Hunter Biden’s federal trial on gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware.

On Sunday's Meet the Press, after a typically contentious, extremely interrupt-ious interview with Sen. Tom Cotton, host Peter Alexander interviewed House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries about the Trump trial, and a single question on the Hunter Biden trial. Jeffries claimed that it was OK for Joe Biden to proclaim "my son has done nothing wrong," which is laughably false. 

Surprisingly, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had full reports on their flagship morning news shows about the start of the first Hunter Biden trial to the tune of eight minutes and 43 seconds, but were crestfallen over the “sad and sordid” trial getting underway that’s already taken “a real personal toll” on President Biden as a lead GOP “political punching bag”.