Once again, disgraced former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos opens the ABC News This Week broadcast with a highly partisan editorial, equal parts screechy and sanctimonious.
Watch the editorial in its entirety, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, June 2nd, 2024:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning and welcome to This Week. In 1774 John Adams said, “representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty.” 250 years later, the heart and lungs of liberty are facing what may be the ultimate stress test. 12 anonymous jurors rendered their verdict on Thursday, finding Donald Trump guilty on all counts. It's the third time in the last two years that jurors have rendered verdicts against Trump. Jurors have yet to consider charges against Trump for even more serious crimes: blocking the peaceful transfer of power, concealing classified documents, encouraging the filing of false electors. But for now, the New York jurors have already presented their fellow citizens with a choice: do we want to be represented- to be led for the first time in history by a convicted felon? That answer will come in November.
Of course, this is not the first time that Stephanopoulos devolves into such histrionics- having recently delivered a monologue wherein he went on about what’s at stake in the election:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Until now, no American president had ever faced a criminal trial. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment for retaining and concealing classified documents. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment or a state indictment for trying to overturn an election, or been named an unindicted co-conspirator in two other states for the same crime. No American president ever faced hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments for business fraud, defamation and sexual abuse. Until now, no American presidential race had been more defined on what's happening in courtrooms than what is happening on the campaign trail. Until now.
Today’s performance is replete with a citation of a Founding Father, and furthers the Regime Media’s broader mission now that there is a guilty verdict against Trump: to fortify both the trial and the verdict in the court of public opinion by hailing them as a triumph of the American judicial system, and to denounce attacks on these as attacks on our institutions, nay, on DEMOCRACY itself.
Never mind that the aforementioned conviction is the end result of the weaponization of government against the chief political rival of the sitting President of the United States, and never mind the fact that the charges themselves were puffed up and frankensteined out of state and federal elements into felonies.
The Regime Media now have their narrative, bolstered by historians. And Stephanopoulos, having earlier sermonized about “the stakes”, now uses the criminal justice system as a backdrop for his sermon on “the choice”. If it weren't for Regime Media, we’d have none at all.
