With President Donald Trump back in The White House, the legacy media have rekindled their interest in stories on presidential corruption- refreshed after ignoring the cornucopia of corrupt acts attributable to the past occupant of The White House. The latest instance: ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Watch as Stephanopoulos delivers yet another hysterical opening monologue to open the latest edition of ABC’s This Week:
ABC THIS WEEK
6/1/25
9:01 AM
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning and welcome to This Week. The scale is staggering. President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars, as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors. Just this week we learned of pardons to tax cheats, including a man whose pardon was granted weeks after his mother attended a million-dollar-a-head fundraiser with the president. The Trump Media and Technology Group raised nearly $2.5 billion from 50 institutional investors whose identities have not been disclosed. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency firm Binance days after Binance began listing the cryptocurrency launched by World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm started by Trump's family. This unprecedented money-making by a sitting president and his family summarized by critics like "The Atlantic's" David Frum. “Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency,” he writes. “Throw away the history books, discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past. There is no analogy with any previous action by any past president. The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship.”
The overwrought opening monologue came ahead of a related reporter item and a panel segment, which stuffed the show’s A-block. And this is by design. Time spent on perceived Trump corruption is time not spent discussing the conspiracy to hide President Joe Biden’s decline from the American public- media bias by filibuster.
The record will reflect that Stephanopoulos’ monologue alone devoted more time to Trump crypto than he did to the various schemes surrounding the Biden family concern: the sale of The Big Guy’s influence. There has been virtually no time, investigative or otherwise, spent on ABC air with regard the various allegations of Biden corruption: the well-known Burisma, the lesser-known but more troubling CEFC, and the troubling arrangement that had Biden sharing Penn-Biden Center office space with potential Chinese intelligence operatives.
Likewise, there is no intellectual curiosity for exploring the related pardons of the latter Biden days and whether whoever was incharge of the autopen executed those by usurping the pardon power of a non compos mentis Biden. Instead Stephanopoulos, like the media, goes from ignoring the former president to going all gas no brakes on the current.
Stephanopoulos is half right, though: “the scale is staggering”, indeed. The scale of the media’s hypocrisy, that is.
