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Hours before the broadcast evening newscasts went to air Tuesday, Fox News discovered that President Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan was implicated by Special Counsel John Durham and his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, because of his connections to the debunked Steele dossier and the people who fed the lies to the FBI.
There was plenty of time for the networks to do the leg work to confirm the story with their sources, but ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News chose to continue to keep their viewers in the dark about how the story they peddled for four years was blowing up in their faces. This is backed up by a NewsBusters study of their bias by omission.
Instead of reporting on the devious web now connecting the Biden White House to the diabolical plot cooked up by the Clinton campaign, they collectively spent over 4 minutes (4:21) hyping the January 6 committee issuing more subpoenas to associates of former President Trump.
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