Aside from a zero Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC have had segments on every newscast this week about Hunter Biden’s gun trial, but like we’ve seen, the flavor skewed heavily toward seeking sympathy for the First Son as he’s had to endure “dramatic”, “heartbreaking”, and “painful” details about his life being made public. Between Thursday night and Friday morning, the broadcast network coverage total clicked over an hour to 60 minutes and 55 seconds (excluding teases). As usual, that paled in comparison to where they stood through four and a half days of the Trump trial, which clocked in at 96 minutes (96:13).     ABC’s Good Morning America was back with its predictable tract of seeking sympathy. Senior national correspondent Terry Moran bemoaned the trial’s focus on Hunter’s life of debauchery: Prosecutors say this trial is a simple case about a man who lied about his drug use when he bought a gun. But, in court, it feels different. They’re telling a story of Hunter Biden’s downfall into drug addiction often using the words of the women who have been closest to him. This morning, prosecutors are expected to rest their case against Hunter Biden after days of dramatic and potentially damaging testimony.  Moran walked viewers through the testimony of Hunter’s ex/late brother Beau’s widow Hallie Biden, explaining their ties as “a romantic relationship”. If anyone reads the texts on Hunter Biden’s laptop or recognizes the fact that it was an affair — something only mentioned once between Thursday night and Friday morning — it was anything but love. “Jurors leaned in as Hallie recounted seeing Hunter for the first time just over a week after the purchase looking, ‘tired exhausted and like he hadn’t slept,’” Moran said in another sympathy play. Along with relaying Hallie’s admission she too did cocaine with Hunter, Moran also played a short exchange about the trial between President Biden and ABC anchor David Muir, which aired on Thursday’s World News Tonight (and was the extent of the newscast’s Hunter coverage): MUIR: I know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution but let me ask you, will you accept the jury’s outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? JOE BIDEN: Yes. MUIR: And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? BIDEN: Yes. CBS Mornings featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers was the lone voice to accurately describe the relationship: “The jury in his gun trial yesterday heard from Hallie Biden, the defendant’s sister-in-law. Hunter Biden had an affair with her after his brother died in 2015.” Correspondent Scott MacFarlane summarized Thursday as filled with “dramatic testimony” with Hallie Biden having “described the moment she found and then discarded the gun, which is at the heart of this case”, adding (click “expand”): MACFARLANE: On Thursday, she told the jury she discovered a revolver and ammunition along with drug residue and drug paraphernalia while searching her brother-in-law Hunter Biden’s car on October 23, 2018. Hallie testified this is video of her throwing away the gun that same day in a Delaware grocery store parking lot, just 11 days after Hunter bought the firearm. Hallie said she thought at first of hiding the gun, then decided to toss it, saying, “I didn’t want him to hurt himself, or I didn’t want my kids to find it and hurt themselves, and I just panicked.” Prosecutors are trying to prove Hunter Biden was addicted and using drugs at the time he bought the gun and lied about those things on this federal application. TOM DUPREE: This is about as powerful physical evidence as you can get, linking his possession of that gun to his use of illegal drugs. MACFARLANE: Hunter has pleaded not guilty and, during cross-examination, the defense pressed Hallie, “You don’t know if he was drinking, using, or either of the above the week the gun was found?” Hallie answered, “I don’t know.” Earlier, Hallie Biden also detailed taking up a romantic relationship with her brother-in-law–months after her late husband, Beau Biden’s, 2015 death–telling the Delaware jury, it was Hunter who introduced her to using crack cocaine, calling her drug use “a terrible experience…I’m embarrassed and I’m ashamed, and I regret that period of my life.” In an interview Thursday, the President closed the door on a pardon if his son is convicted.  [ABC CLIP] MACFARLANE: Prosecutors are likely to wrap their case by midday today. Then we hear from the defense, which has not ruled out calling Hunter Biden as a witness[.] NBC’s Ryan Nobles fell in with Moran on Today: “Hallie Biden’s testimony was heartbreaking at times. She accused the President’s son of introducing her to crack and said that she thought he was meeting drug dealers and using drugs at the time he bought the gun.” “Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter Biden’s late brother, Beau, who was in a romantic relationship with him for a time, testifying Thursday that Hunter Biden’s crack use was at one point a constant presence in her life. It led to her abusing the drug as well,” he added. For added affect, Nobles pointed out Hallie was so familiar with Hunter’s cocaine addiction she saw piles “the size of ping-pong balls”. Nobles, however, was the only network reporter Friday morning to make known that First Lady Jill Biden had flown back to the U.S. from D-Day ceremonies (presumably on the taxpayer’s dime) to be with Hunter for Friday’s trial before...yes, flying back to France where the President will be through the weekend. Rewinding to late Thursday, MacFarlane described Hallie Biden on the CBS Evening News as “a star witness” and passed off their fling as “a romantic relationship with her brother-in-law”. And, on NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt described Thursday’s trial happenings as filled with “dramatic testimony” while Nobles said Hallie’s “romantic relationship with” Hunter took center stage. Many thanks to NewsBusters interns Sarah Butler and Michael Wnek for their assistance in compiling the transcripts. To see the relevant transcripts from June 6, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC). To see the relevant transcripts from June 7, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

Upcoming CNN debate moderator and Inside Politics host Dana Bash marveled to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday during a ten-minute interview that President Joe Biden’s speech at Pointe du Hoc in France “was quite a contrast” with recent statements from former President Donald Trump. Bash led Pelosi by introducing a clip of Trump on Dr. Phil, “And what you have described and what we saw from President Biden on this trip clearly intentionally, not just sending a message to the world that is first and foremost, his goal, but also back here in the us, cautioning about the fragility of democracy and it was quite a contrast from what we heard from the former president, his rival, to take the White House again, Donald Trump, I want you to listen to what he said yesterday.”     In the clip, Trump declared that “The word revenge is a very strong word, but maybe we have revenge through success [jump cut] revenge does take time, I will say that and sometimes revenge can be justified, for I have to be honest. Sometimes it can.” Trump clearly said that one form of revenge could simply be winning, but nevertheless, Bash asked, “What's your response?” Pelosi, who was also in France in Paris, danced around the question, “Well, I don't respond,” and proceeded to give a recap of her meetings with French officials and the history of Franco-American relations as they related to the Revolutionary War and World War II. As for Bash, her recent commentaries on Trump are raising serious doubts about her ability to fairly moderate the June 27 debate. Here is a transcript for the June 7 show: CNN Inside Politics with Dana Bash 6/7/2024 12:39 PM ET DANA BASH: And what you have described and what we saw from President Biden on this trip clearly intentionally, not just sending a message to the world that is first and foremost, his goal, but also back here in the us, cautioning about the fragility of democracy and it was quite a contrast from what we heard from the former president, his rival, to take the White House again, Donald Trump, I want you to listen to what he said yesterday. DONALD TRUMP: The word revenge is a very strong word, but maybe we have revenge through success [jump cut] revenge does take time, I will say that— PHIL MCGRAW: It does. TRUMP: -- and sometimes revenge can be justified for I have to be honest. Sometimes it can. BASH: What's your response? NANCY PELOSI: Well, I don't respond. Let me just say this: we came here and we thanked the French for their help and our own revolution and that was part of our conversation with the Chamber of Deputies today, with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, the speaker of the House, a woman, with the members of the chamber, with all along the way, we've been thanking the French.

The United States isn’t the only country overwhelmed by an influx of illegal immigrants, as Ireland is suffering a similar fate. “God be with the days when it was just Polish immigrants,” YouTuber Keith Woods tells Lauren Chen. “People will be nostalgic for that soon.” “It’s happening in all the anglosphere countries, but like Canada, the U.S., Ireland — they all increased their population by about 3% in just the year after COVID purely through immigration,” Woods continues. “Ireland had a 3.5% increase in a single year in 2023, which is one of the biggest population increases ever in any country for any reason.” According to Woods, illegal immigration has exploded in Ireland “because the government has essentially advertised the services that are on offer here for asylum-seekers.” Woods also warns that Ireland has welcomed 10 times the EU average of Ukrainian refugees. “So within the last three, four years, there has been this kind of convergence of record legal immigration, record illegal immigration with asylum-seekers, so-called, from outside Europe, flooding in from countries like Nigeria, Algeria, and then also the Ukrainian crisis,” he explains. While skepticism of illegal immigration has existed among citizens, it hasn’t been matched politically. “Every political party supported this; there was total elite consensus, total consensus across the political paradigm, entire media consensus. So it’s an interesting case right now,” he says. Chen notes that the stats reflecting Ireland’s immigration boom might not sound that serious, but they are. “Speaking of 3%, I think when we just hear that number, that doesn’t sound that big,” Chen says, “but what I think people really need to understand is that left to their own devices, I’m pretty sure Ireland’s own native birth rate is below replacement.” “So the fact that it’s growing by 3%, it’s actually even more than that because I’m pretty sure there’d be a slight population decline if there were no immigration,” she adds. Woods notes that immigration isn’t simply to help others, either. “Traditionally, this has been a weapon that’s used to change the demographics,” Woods says. “That’s a difficult thing to reverse.” Want more from Lauren Chen?To enjoy more of Lauren’s pro-liberty, pro-logic, and pro-market commentary on social and political issues, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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