ABC Skips Hillary’s Scandals; Gushes Over New Book Epilogue and Chelsea on Cover of Magazine

Curtis Houck | April 10, 2015
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For the second straight news cycle, ABC News failed to mention any of Hillary Clinton’s scandals as she’s expected to announce her second presidential campaign on Sunday as World News Tonight instead gushed over a new epilogue to her latest book and Chelsea Clinton’s appearance on the May issue of Elle magazine.

Anchor David Muir led off the program’s 55 seconds of coverage by touting an excerpt from the epilogue of the upcoming paperback version of Clinton’s book Hard Choices: “Tonight, Mrs. Clinton revealing a new epilogue to her book, talking about becoming a grandmother, saying, quote: ‘Rather than make me want to slow down, it has spurred me to speed up.’”