Hello, FEC? CBS, NBC Boost Biden LIE Trump ‘First’ Racist President

Nicholas Fondacaro | July 22, 2020
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After once dubiously omitting his answer to a question about his senility, CBS Evening News via political correspondent Ed O’Keefe acted as a campaign surrogate for Democratic candidate Joe Biden on Wednesday, boosting his lie that President Trump was America’s “first racist president.” NBC Nightly News also got in on the act. Between pushing the lie and praising a new campaign video, does this mean the networks committed federal election violations?

As CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell was leading into the segment, she was clearly excited to be talking about Biden teaming up with former President Obama to trash Trump.

“Joe Biden and former President Obama met face to face for the first time in months to team up on a new campaign video where they take turns hitting President Trump on his response to the pandemic. This as Biden releases his most direct attack yet on Mr. Trump's character,” she boasted before handing it off to O’Keefe.

And he jumped right into pushing Biden’s false claim, touting how his candidate was “calling out Mr. Trump as the country's first racist president.” O’Keefe then played this soundbite of Biden’s comment and qualified it for him.

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