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CNN Spins Local Newsom Investigation as Trumpist Political Witch Hunt

June 16th, 2026 10:28 PM

California Governor Gavin Newsom has frequently pushed himself as a stronghold of opposition to President Donald Trump. This Monday, Newsom issued a press statement claiming he was being politically persecuted by the Trump administration with references to an alleged federal investigation into his wife’s finances, and on Tuesday, CNN News Central was immediately ready to echo those…

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Network AM Shows Promote Newsom Probe Spin of 'Trump Retribution'

June 16th, 2026 4:36 PM

ABC, CBS, and NBC all broadcast stories about Gov. Gavin Newsom rushing out to proclaim the federal government was investigating his family finances, heavily selling his "Trump retribution" narrative without going beyond vague references to what might deserve investigation. 

Current Newsom Investigations Stem from Probe by Biden DOJ

June 16th, 2026 2:25 PM

Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom claimed Monday that Republican President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate him and his wife – but, any investigations were actually prompted by whistleblower complaints in California and are the expansion of a DOJ probe initiated during the Biden Administration.

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CNN's Cornish SHUTS DOWN Panelist’s Newsom Probe Talk, Shifts To 2028

June 16th, 2026 2:19 PM

On Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a possible federal investigation into his wife, Jennifer Siebel-Newsom, host Audie Cornish framed the case as retribution. However, Concerned Women for America President Penny Nance attempted to share details of the investigation, but Cornish stopped her as she said, “we don’t have confirmation, and I do…

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PREDICTABLE: Nets Dutifully Enable Newsom’s ‘Weaponization’ Narrative

June 16th, 2026 1:39 AM

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) released an X video denouncing the Trump Department’s alleged hit job against him and his family and alleging weaponization of government. Newsom offered no factual basis for a weaponization in progress. Nonetheless, the Elitist Media evening news ran with varying degrees of this narrative.

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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Dissects California’s Tax-and-Spend Nightmare

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June 15th, 2026 4:29 PM

Amidst his cacophony of bad takes, CNN host Fareed Zakaria somehow manages to illustrate the “broken clock is right twice a day” idiom at times when lefty politicos’ illusory sense of economics becomes too asinine to ignore. Enter, California.

NewsBusters Podcast: Mosque Shooting Reveals 'Islamophobic' America?

May 21st, 2026 10:25 PM

Three men were killed at the San Diego Islamic Center by two teenagers who were then found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. It’s easy for us to feel unified in horror over this, but it’s also going to become grist for claims America is overwhelmed by "Islamophobia."

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ABC Doesn't Challenge Newsom's 'Rigged System' Claim

May 9th, 2026 12:07 PM

After the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the state’s 10-1 Democratic gerrymander on Friday, ABC Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl joined World News Tonight to omit why the court ruled the way it did. By contrast, CBS Evening News host Tony Dokoupil referenced the ruling that held state Democrats violated the rules in how the map was drawn and put to voters, but then…

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After Virginia Loss, PBS Asks 'Are Republicans Rigging The System'

May 9th, 2026 9:40 AM

After the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the state’s redistricting referendum violated the state constitution on Firday, PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz parroted California Gov. Gavin Newsom by asking The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks and The New Yorker contributor Ruth Marcus if Republicans are “rigging the system."

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Curtis Houck Shreds Media for Crowing Over Skewed Virginia Maps

April 24th, 2026 2:40 PM

On Thursday afternoon, NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck joined The Scott Jennings Show to expose a coordinated media protection racket gaslighting voters from Richmond to Sacramento. While the elitist press spent the week celebrating a narrow, 3-point victory for a radical new congressional map in Virginia, Jennings noted that a "wet blanket" has emerged in the form of former Attorney…

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ABC, NBC Haven’t Covered MASSIVE Hospice Fraud in Newsom’s California

April 13th, 2026 10:10 AM

Since Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz sounded the alarm in January about the rampant Medicare fraud inside California’s hospice system, a Media Research Center analysis found ABC and NBC have not spent a second on their flagship morning and evening newscasts informing viewers of the billions of dollars scammed from U.S. taxpayers. In contrast, CBS…

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Fox Covers Trump Crackdown on Medicare Fraud in Dem-Run California

April 8th, 2026 10:15 PM

Unlike CNN and MS NOW, Fox has given substantial coverage to the Trump administration's crackdown on Medicare fraud in California, where it is estimated that hundreds of billions of tax dollars have been stolen over the past several years due to lax oversight by the Democratic-controlled state.

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CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ Rips California Rail Racket, Allows Easter Message

April 7th, 2026 5:56 PM

While it’s certain to not always be the case, Sunday’s 60 Minutes offered a possible harbinger of things to come if editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is to turn CBS News into a network with journalism that appeals to all Americans. The episode including a lengthy piece blasting California’s high-speed rail boondoggle and then a closing minute from Christian evangelist Franklin Graham about…

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Special Report: Big Four News Apps Black Out Calif. Healthcare Fraud

March 31st, 2026 1:00 PM

EXCLUSIVE: The growing hospice fraud scandal in California could soon derail the presidential ambitions of Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris, or at least it looks like that’s what Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo fear. The Big Four might also be protecting the Democrat candidates aiming to replace Newsom as governor in 2026.