PBS NewsHour Turns To Yale Law Professor (Biden Donor!) To Absolve Biden On Classified Documents

On Thursday's PBS NewsHour, the taxpayer-funded newscast labored to dismiss the special counsel's report on Biden's misuse of classified documents as nothing like Donald Trump's misuse, and turned to a Yale Law professor named Oona Hathaway to explain why no one should care about this, or Biden's failing mental capacity. They ran a clip of Biden proclaiming himself innocent. No Republicans were quoted in this report. Here's one way to know PBS rigged it: Oona Hathaway donated $1,500 to Biden for President in 2020. This, actually, is a bit of pattern. She donated $1,500 to Barack Obama in 2008 and $500 to Hillary Clinton in 2016. In 2010, she also has donated $1,000 to Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct.) and $250 to Rep. Rosa DeLaura (D-Ct.) PBS didn't disclose that record.

Anchorman Geoff Bennett led Hathaway through the case. "So this investigation found that President Biden had willfully retained classified material after finishing his term as vice president and that he had shared sensitive information with a ghostwriter who helped him with his 2017 memoir. The president isn't facing charges in what would typically be considered a felony. Does this outcome comport with the facts and evidence in the case?" Hathaway naturally said yes, that "there are a number of reasons they don't think a jury would be inclined to believe that in fact he behaved willfully." Bennett just noted Biden read from the classified documents to his ghostwriter but hey, why would a juror find "he behaved willfully"?

Bennett then nudged the professor to explain how Trump's case is much worse: "And the separate investigation into Donald Trump's mishandling of classified documents, that resulted in 40 criminal counts against him. Remind us of the significant differences here, why Donald Trump is being prosecuted and President Biden isn't." Hathaway’s defense of Biden omitted a major detail of Hur’s report, one Bennett himself had just raised: The 2017 recording of Biden acknowledging he had boxes of classified documents, contradicting the administration’s claim that all documents had been returned as soon as Biden became aware they were in his possession.

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