ABC’s Good Morning America had President Trump and his family under the microscope Wednesday as they dissected what they hinted was corruption during his trip to the Middle East. Democrat operative turned anchor George Stephanopoulos brazenly proclaimed: “We’ve never seen a mix of personal finance and diplomacy like we’re seeing on this trip and in the early months of this presidency.” But that’s not true; especially from the network that overlooked the corruption of the Biden family.
Anti-Republican chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce tried to portray Trump as a just a puppet of the crown price of Saudi Arabia with this highly edited hack-job on his speech:
TRUMP: I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness.
BRUCE: It's a move, Trump says, came at the request of the Saudi crown prince.
TRUMP: Oh, what I do for the crown prince.
(…)
BRUCE: The Saudis giving Trump the royal treatment. The crown prince rolling out the lavender carpet. Trump piling on the praise.
TRUMP: I like him a lot. I like him too much. That's why we give so much, you know? Too much. I like you too much.
She decried Trump’s “transactional approach to foreign relations based on making deals regardless of past history,” huffing that he was “embracing the Saudi crown prince years after U.S. intelligence concluded he orchestrated the murder of a Washington Post journalist, to forging ties with Putin.”
“But hanging over the visit, serious questions about Trump's own business interests. His sons, who now run the Trump organization, have projects in the works in all three countries he's visiting,” she proclaimed.
Stephanopoulos later questioned her about, “news this morning that a company with ties to the Chinese government is investing several hundred million dollars in one of the Trump family crypto businesses?” Bruce falsely called it “the President's crypto currency business” while decrying that the Chinese company worked through TikTok, something ABC News had staunchly defended in the past.
As for Stephanopoulos’s lie that, “We’ve never seen a mix of personal finance and diplomacy like we’re seeing on this trip and in the early months of this presidency.” We have, during Biden presidency and during his vice presidency.
As NewsBusters had previously reported, ABC (along with the other broadcast networks) had censored testimony from a Hunter Biden business partner about the Biden “brand” they were selling. Nor did they report on the web of Biden family shell companies that received massive payments from foreign entities shortly after Vice President Joe Biden’s overseas trips and other shady dealings.
And on the rare occasions they did mention the Republican-led investigations, they downplayed them. That’s not to mention the fact that Hunter also worked closely with China helping them get access to a cobalt mine in the Congo and their gift to him of a massive diamond.
Stephanopoulos’s portrayal of what’s happening during the second Trump presidency was hypocrisy on parade.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s Good Morning America
May 14, 2025
7:09:59 a.m. Eastern(…)
MARY BRUCE: The face to face coming hours after Trump announced he would lift sanctions on Syria, now that the Assad regime has crumbled.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness.
BRUCE: It's a move, Trump says, came at the request of the Saudi crown prince.
TRUMP: Oh, what I do for the crown prince.
(…)
7:10:38 a.m. Eastern
BRUCE: The Saudis giving Trump the royal treatment. The crown prince rolling out the lavender carpet. Trump piling on the praise.
TRUMP: I like him a lot. I like him too much. That's why we give so much, you know? Too much. I like you too much.
BRUCE: The President describing transactional approach to foreign relations based on making deals regardless of past history, from embracing the Saudi crown prince years after U.S. intelligence concluded he orchestrated the murder of a Washington Post journalist, to forging ties with Putin.
TRUMP: In recent years far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it's our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins.
BRUCE: But hanging over the visit, serious questions about Trump's own business interests. His sons, who now run the Trump organization, have projects in the works in all three countries he's visiting.
(…)
7:12:47 a.m. Eastern
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Mary, also news this morning that a company with ties to the Chinese government is investing several hundred million dollars in one of the Trump family crypto businesses?
BRUCE: Yeah, George, that's exactly right. GD Culture Group, a small technology company with ties to China that operates on TikTok announcing plans to purchase up to 300 million of the Trump Bitcoin. They are just the latest business are foreign ties to jump into the President's crypto currency business.
And all of this is coming while the President is working on a deal to allow TikTok to continue operating in the U.S. Ethics experts are sounding the alarm about conflicts of interest, but the White House insists the President is following the law.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Yeah. We’ve never seen a mix of personal finance and diplomacy like we’re seeing on this trip and in the early months of this presidency. Mary Bruce, thanks very much.
