ABC’s Karl: Not Enough Investigative Reporting on Trump ‘Until It Was Too Late’

Brent Baker | April 23, 2018
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In the midst of a discussion with New York Times reporter Amy Chozick, author of the new book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling, This Week moderator George Stephanopoulos fretted how Clinton’s campaign was supposedly harmed by the media’s fealty to giving equal time to “wrongdoing” on both sides: “If you point out a wrongdoing on one side, you have to point at a wrongdoing on the other and they automatically become equivalent and that isn’t always fair.”

ABC’s chief White House correspondent, Jon Karl, jumped in to regret how there was “not enough investigative reporting” on Trump “until it was too late.” 

Exchange on the April 22 This Week on ABC:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: It’s a big question for all of us. You look back and say, listen, there were things done wrong. No question about that. But there’s something structurally in the media where we have to equalize everything. If you point out a wrongdoing on one side, you have to point at a wrongdoing on the other and they automatically become equivalent and that isn’t always fair.

JON KARL: I think the problem though may have been not enough equalization. I don’t think it’s a problem how much we covered or how much the press covered the e-mails. How much investigative work was done on Donald Trump. Particularly during the primaries.

STEPHANIE CUTTER, DEPUTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR OBAMA: Not enough.

KARL: He was portrayed more as a phenomenon, the excitement, the attacks, the latest, you know, outrageous thing he said, or whatever. There wasn’t much investigative reporting going, frankly, until it was too late.
 

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