ABC/NBC Ignore Flynn Unmaskers Exposed, CBS Defends Biden

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 13, 2020
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While CBS Evening News was the only broadcast network to mention that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn's unmaskers had been exposed Wednesday, after two Republican senators released the evidence, anti-Trump White House correspondent Paula Reid downplayed the significance of the three-page list of names. She also stepped up to defend presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, whose name appeared on the list most recently.

CBS tucked the latest Flynn case revelation into a one minute brief following a coronavirus report that was very critical of President Trump. “Well, Margaret, unmasking is when a senior government official requests to know the identity of the U.S. citizen in an intelligence report. It's something that happens thousands of times a year,” Reid declared in an effort to downplay the significance of what was exposed.

Reid eased into acknowledging that Biden’s name was among those who requested to unmask Flynn, and insinuated that those outraged by it were just toeing the Trump administration line.

“Now, on this list of approximately three dozen officials is former Vice President Joe Biden. And administration officials here at the Trump White House, they're suggesting that Flynn was targeted in an effort to undermine President Trump,” she said.

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