{"id":2339603,"date":"2024-09-11T06:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T10:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abc-news-turns-debate-into-one-sided-show-trial-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T06:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T10:38:27","slug":"abc-news-turns-debate-into-one-sided-show-trial-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abc-news-turns-debate-into-one-sided-show-trial-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC News Turns Debate Into One-Sided Show Trial Against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fabc-news-turns-debate-into-one-sided-show-trial-against-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2339603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During a recent debate aired on ABC\u2062 News, millions of viewers expected a typical presidential forum\u2063 but instead witnessed what\u2062 Charlie Kirk, founder\u2062 of Turning Point \u200bUSA, characterized as a &#8220;one-sided show trial.&#8221; Hosts\u2063 David Muir and Linsey Davis were criticized for allowing Vice President Kamala Harris to evade accountability for pressing issues\u2062 such as\u200b the border \u200dcrisis, inflation, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-energy-sec-i-drive-on-sunshine\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Energy Sec: \u2018I Drive On Sunshine\u2019\">rising gas prices<\/a>, while relentlessly questioning \u2064former President Donald Trump about the\u200b January 6 \u200bCapitol events. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reminder-the-presidential-debate-commission-worked-to-hide-joe-bidens-foreign-policy-from-voters\/\" title=\"Reminder: The Presidential Debate Commission Worked To Hide Joe Biden\u2019s Foreign Policy From Voters\">debate focused primarily<\/a> on Trump&#8217;s \u2064actions rather than Harris&#8217;s policies. Muir pressed Trump \u200bon whether \u2064he regretted his actions on January 6, while neglecting to question Harris about her controversial support \u2064for a fund that assisted\u2062 protestors during the 2020 riots. Critics noted\u2063 that Muir and Davis fact-checked Trump\u200b aggressively, yet let Harris make misleading statements go unchallenged, including false claims about Trump&#8217;s \u200dremarks\u2063 regarding the Charlottesville protests and late-term abortions.<\/p>\n<p>the\u2063 debate has been described as an exercise in \u200delection interference, where Trump was \u200bput on defensive and\u200c Harris was \u200callowed to \u2062dodge scrutiny for \u200bher record and statements. Observers felt that the format and questioning \u200ddid not live up to the\u2062 expected standards of a balanced political discussion, leading to calls for more equitable treatment\u2064 of both candidates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Millions of Americans tuned in to ABC News on Tuesday for what was supposed to be the first presidential debate of the election. Instead, they witnessed a one-sided show trial where ABC News served as the judge, jury, and executioner, as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1833684983971807274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed<\/a> out by Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk on X.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News&rsquo; David Muir and Linsey Davis spent 90 minutes running election interference for Vice President Kamala Harris by ambushing former President Donald Trump. Rather than addressing soaring inflation, rising gas prices, fake job numbers, and the deadly border crisis, the Bobbsey Twins decided to focus on platitudes while Harris got away with murder &mdash; yes, murder. <\/p>\n<p>Not once did Harris have to answer for her border crisis that has left innocent Americans brutally raped and murdered, but then again, she wasn&rsquo;t the one on trial, <em>Trump was.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Muir tried, for example, to pin Jan. 6 on Trump but conveniently omitted that Trump clearly called for a &ldquo;peaceful&rdquo; protest that day.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Is there anything you regret about what<em> <\/em>you did on [Jan. 6]?&rdquo; Muir asked.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was once again put on the defense and forced to spend precious time setting the record straight: All he &ldquo;did&rdquo; was give a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/10\/966396848\/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech<\/a> urging supporters to &ldquo;peacefully and patriotically&rdquo; &ldquo;make [their] voices heard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But Muir decided Trump&rsquo;s answer wasn&rsquo;t yet satisfactory, perhaps because Trump hadn&rsquo;t said anything that the propaganda press could later use to vilify him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very simple question as we move forward toward another election,&rdquo; Muir said during his cross-examination. &ldquo;Is there anything you regret about what you did on that day? Yes or no?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But if Muir actually cared about &ldquo;officers coming under attack,&rdquo; he would have grilled Harris about her <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kamalaharris\/status\/1267555018128965643?s=46&amp;t=IKOF8othxykPf1OFaoJwfQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support<\/a> for a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/minnesota-freedom-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fund<\/a> that bailed out violent protesters during the deadly 2020 riots. Instead, Muir exploited the Jan. 6 protest (during which a Capitol police officer killed Trump-supporter Ashli Babbitt) as an opportunity to toss Harris easy questions to answer while dodging accountability for her disastrous policies and years in office.<\/p>\n<p>Muir and Linsey also spent the night slamming Trump with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merrick-garland-blows-off-concern-that-fbi-was-authorized-to-kill-trump-in-mar-a-lago-raid-as-false\/\" title=\"Merrick Garland dismisses claims of FBI authorization to kill Trump in Mar-A-Lago raid as &#039;false\">bogus fact-checks<\/a> while letting Harris spew already-debunked falsehoods.  <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti-Semitic hate, and what did the president then, at the time say?&rdquo; Harris asked, claiming that former president Trump said &ldquo;&lsquo;There were fine people on each side&rsquo;,&rdquo; Harris said. Here, she once again, as Biden did in his disastrous debate performance weeks ago, &ldquo;repeat[ed] a long-debunked claim regarding Trump&rsquo;s remarks,&rdquo; as The Federalist previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/27\/biden-peddles-very-fine-people-hoax-after-even-fact-checkers-admitted-it-was-a-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.&nbsp;She also falsely claimed Trump said there would be a &ldquo;bloodbath&rdquo; if  &ldquo;the outcome of this election is not to his liking.&rdquo; This, however, was another mischaracterization of Trump&rsquo;s previous remarks in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/16\/politics\/trump-bloodbath-auto-industry-election\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he said<\/a> that the country would fall victim to an <em>economic<\/em> bloodbath if he were not in office to place a &ldquo;100 percent tariff on every single car&rdquo; that is imported. <\/p>\n<p>Muir also let <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/11\/25-lies-kamala-harris-told-in-her-debate-against-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harris lie<\/a> about the Supreme Court immunity ruling, late-term abortions, and Trump&rsquo;s repeated condemnation of white supremacy uninterrupted, forcing Trump to preemptively defend himself against the blatant lies knowing Muir &mdash; the judge, jury, and executioner &mdash; only cared to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-pretend-kamala-harris-never-named-border-czar\/\" title=\"Media Pretend Kamala Harris Never Named Border Czar\">fact-check&#038;rdquo<\/a>; Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It was an insulting night: as Americans struggle to choose between putting food on the table or keeping a roof over their head, ABC News&rsquo; in-house Harris campaign staffers prioritized grilling Trump about the 2020 election and his flippant comments instead of pressing Harris on how she would bring relief. The moderators oversaw nothing more than a show trial where Trump was forced to defend every word he&rsquo;s ever spoken while Harris was able to skate past her four years of failure.<\/p>\n<p>But that was the entire purpose: The propaganda press wanted to sabotage Trump&rsquo;s chances of winning by making him defend trivial issues, creating fodder for the media to malign him while praising Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we shouldn&rsquo;t be so surprised by the lopsided coverage. Media Research Center released a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/10\/prepare-for-left-wing-abc-debate-moderators-to-run-cover-for-kamalas-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> that analyzed &ldquo;all 100 campaign stories that aired on [Muir&rsquo;s] <em>World News Tonight<\/em> [on ABC]  from the day Harris entered the race (July 21) through September 6,&rdquo; and purportedly &ldquo;found 25 clearly positive statements about Harris from reporters, anchors, voters or other non-partisan sources, with zero negative statements &mdash; none,&rdquo; as The Federalist previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That computes to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prepare-for-abc-moderators-to-run-cover-for-kamala-harris\/\" title=\"Prepare For ABC Moderators To Run Cover For Kamala Harris\">gravity-defying 100% positive spin score<\/a> for the Vice President,&rdquo; the report claims, adding that Muir&rsquo;s coverage was 93 percent negative &ldquo;spin score&rdquo; toward Trump.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans watched ABC News on Tuesday, expecting the first presidential debate of the election. Instead, they were presented with a biased spectacle that Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, described as a show trial where ABC acted as judge, jury, and executioner. David Muir and Linsey Davis from ABC News spent 90 minutes conducting what appeared to be election interference on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris by aggressively questioning former President Donald Trump. Rather than discussing pressing issues like soaring inflation, high gas prices, misleading job statistics, and the border crisis that has led to violence against innocent Americans, they chose to focus on trivial matters while allowing Harris to evade accountability for her actions.<\/p>\n<p>Muir attempted to link Trump to the events of January 6 but conveniently ignored Trump&#8217;s call for a &#8220;peaceful&#8221; protest that day. He pressed Trump with questions about regrets regarding January 6 but failed to challenge Harris about her support for bail funds for violent protesters during the riots in 2020. Instead of holding Harris accountable for her policies and tenure in office, Muir used the opportunity to ask her easy questions while attacking Trump with dubious fact-checks.<\/p>\n<p>Harris made false claims about Trump&#8217;s comments during Charlottesville and misrepresented his statements regarding potential economic consequences if he were not elected again. Muir allowed these inaccuracies without interruption while forcing Trump into a defensive position against blatant lies.<\/p>\n<p>The night was frustrating: as many Americans face tough choices between basic needs like food and housing, ABC&#8217;s moderators focused on interrogating Trump over past comments rather than asking Harris how she would provide relief. The format resembled more of a show trial where Trump had to justify every statement he&#8217;s ever made while Harris avoided scrutiny over her record.<\/p>\n<p>This approach seemed intentional; it appeared designed by media outlets aiming to undermine Trump&#8217;s chances by making him address minor issues instead of pressing concerns facing voters today. A study from Media Research Center revealed an overwhelming bias in coverage favoring Harris\u2014reporting showed all positive statements about her without any negative ones\u2014while Trump&#8217;s coverage was predominantly negative at 93%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2339604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-12.24.47-AM-e1726028788180-1024x577.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36059,3896,17977,40624,3634],"class_list":["post-2339603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc-news","tag-debate","tag-one-sided","tag-show-trial","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-11-at-12.24.47-AM-e1726028788180-1024x577.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}