Trump/January 6 indictment

The rash of current plea deals of former Trump lawyers and advisers to Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis is causing the usual excitement -- and the usual premature glee -- on MSNBC's Morning Joe that the "walls are closing in" on Donald Trump and his post-election tactics.

Apple TV+’s drama The Morning Show is only 5 episodes into its latest season, but it’s still managed to shove a ton of liberal propaganda down viewers’ throats. In the latest episode, they went back in time to revisit Covid, the BLM riots, and the January 6 insurrection to mock southern conservatives. They also made the preposterous claim that “upwards of a billion people will die in our…

Even on a newscast preceding that night’s GOP presidential debate, the tax-supported PBS NewsHour kept its focus on former president Donald Trump, inviting former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on to promote her book, Enough, about her traumatic experiences in the Trump White House and how dangerous it would be for Trump to win a second term of office. You may remember…

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.…

Politico reporter Kyle Cheney is clearly on pins and needles waiting for the January 6 trial of Donald Trump, which isn't until next March. But on Monday, he offered "pregame" excitement in a story promoting heroic Obama-appointed District Court Judge Tonya Chutkan. 

On MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart show, they wildly speculated about a Rolling Stone report with anonymous sources alleging Trump wondered about whether he'd get a "Club Fed" prison or a "bad" prison. Legal analyst Glenn Kirschner imagined that Trump's alleged worries about jail demonstrates his "overwhelming consciousness of guilt." 

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.

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.”

On Morning Joe, Willie Geist says that Trump lawyers John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and Rudy Giuliani make frequent TV appearances because they "crave" attention. Meanwhile, Geist himself is omnipresent on NBC and MSNBC, with eight different gigs.

On Morning Joe, MSNBC analyst Ken Dilanian, who had been a big promoter of the debunked Russian collusion conspiracy theory, accuses the Trump defense team in the January 6 trial before Judge Chutkan of harboring a "reality distortion field."

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).

Joe Scarborough, saying "innocent people don't do that," argued Friday that Donald Trump's attempt to push his federal trial related to January 6th back to 2026 is evidence of his awareness of guilt.

New York Times "democracy reporter" Nick Corasaniti adopted a vengeful tone in his report on Trump allies getting their legal comeuppance. The headline: “After Years of Lies, Election Deniers Face Something New: Consequences.” Corasaniti pushed a sinister argument: "Legal experts say those convictions are a key reason that recent provocations by Mr. Trump after his series of…

What a difference a few days can make. Between Friday night and Monday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC chose to rediscover Hunter Biden’s life of corruption with 72 minutes and 23 seconds on their flagship morning and evening news shows and Sunday morning political programs. Add in the miniscule tally of four minutes and 50 seconds between the evening of August 1 and the…