The death of Texas teem Ava Moore, who was set to attend the Air Force Academy, was but the latest in a long trail of death and destruction at the hands of criminal illegal aliens allowed to enter into the country unabated. And in an awful but predictable omission, most of the major newscasts neglected to report this story. ABC World News Tonight was the only newscast to air the story. Here is that report in its entirety, as aired on Wednesday, May 28th, 2025: DAVID MUIR: Next tonight here, the 18-year-old who’d just been accepted to the Air Force Academy, killed while kayaking, hit by a jet ski. The jet ski driver then speeding away, and tonight, hear the charges. ABC's Mireya Villarreal in Texas tonight. VILLAREAL: Tonight, two people facing charges after a hit and run jet ski crash in Texas over Memorial Day weekend that left a beloved Air fForce cadet dead. Authorities say 18-year-old Ava Moore, a standout high school basketball player, just accepted into the U.S. Air Force Academy, was kayaking on Lake Grapevine outside Dallas Sunday night when a jet ski plowed into her from behind. LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL: A personal watercraft, which had two females onboard, was being driven at a high rate of speed near the shoreline. VILLAREAL: Good samaritans rushing to help. GOOD SAMARITAN: Once she came out of the water, you know, I just had to lay her down and kind of started helping. VILLAREAL: But the cadet could not be saved. Police say the alleged jet ski driver, 21-year-old Daikerlyn Gonzalez Gonzalez, fled the scene. She was arrested Tuesday, now charged with manslaughter. Maikel Coello Perozo, who police say wasn't on the jet ski, also facing charges tonight. Authorities say he hit two vehicles while allegedly driving Gonzalez away from the scene. David, DHS says both of these suspects are from Venezuela. They were apprehended- arrested at the border, processed, and then released into the U.S. David. MUIR: Mireya Villareal tonight. Mireya, thank you. Towards the end of the report, take notice of the contortions that correspondent Mireya Villareal goes through in order to avoid saying that the arrestees were in the country illegally. In so doing, she inadvertently made clear that these illegals came into the country sometime within the last 4 years. Villareal’s contortions notwithstanding, credit goes to ABC for including this story on World News Tonight. CBS and NBC had no time to spare on their respective newscasts.  The media continue to avoid reporting stories that shine a light on the previous administration’s disastrous border policies. In this regard, their omissions are unchanged. Joe Biden is long gone from office, but the urge to protect him remains. At least for tonight, ABC resisted that urge.  

NPR went to court and sued the Trump administration over the president’s executive order calling on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to deny federal funds to NPR and PBS. They claim it’s “a clear violation of the Constitution.” NPR argues with a straight face that removing any taxpayer subsidies is a violation of the First Amendment. Apparently, liberal speech must be forcibly supported by conservative taxpayers for the Constitution to be upheld. NPR CEO Katherine Maher has even contended that defunding NPR would be violation of the free speech of NPR's private backers.  Trained lawyer Dan Schneider exposes the nonsense. NPR is not a private broadcaster. It takes federal funds, and it has to live up to what the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 called for: "strict adherence to objectivity and balance" in programming. But the CPB has never forced "strict adherence." Liberal bias would go unchallenged.  NPR and PBS refuse to engage in the allegations of 24/7 liberal bias. The White House laid out chapter and verse about the tilt, and NPR CEO Katherine Maher put out a statement accusing Trump of "retaliatory, viewpoint-based discrimination." Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!  PBS CEO Paula Kerger claimed “we work really hard to try to bring multiple viewpoints forward.” No. They don't. In the latest study of PBS News Hour guests by MRC's Clay Waters, the liberal-to-conservative (or Democrat to Republican) ratio was 4.2 to 1. In 2023, we found it was 3.7 to 1, so it’s getting worse! But that's being generous. We counted anti-Trump Republicans on the right side, and eight of those 18 guests were PBS-pleasing Trump critics. The current News Hour crew is the most biased PBS team we've ever seen. In March, Bennett interviewed Senate Democrat leader Charles Schumer and pounded him from the left! Schumer upset the far left by preventing a government shutdown. Bennett asked "Why not be as tactically ruthless as Republicans have shown themselves to be?" Republicans have never displayed any "ruthlessness" in the face of ruthless anti-Republican bias in "public" broadcasting. Will now be the time for defunding? Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.   

On Tuesday night’s installment of The Source with Kaitlan Collins, conspiracy theories were in no short supply regarding the recent actions of President Trump to pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, saying they were politically motivated to “protect” donors and supporters of the President.  The discussion centered on the Chrisleys, who were convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion in 2022, and suffered an arguably harsher sentence than most for their crimes. President Trump announced their pardons on May 27, 2025, with quick criticism from the left to follow. “But only months into the President's second term, we're seeing a pattern take shape as he uses the one authority that no court or Congress can check to help high profile friends, supporters, and donors,” Collins said.     During the show, Collins showed a plethora of clips from various sources showcasing the Chrisley’s daughter, Savannah, advocating for her parent’s release, stating that she believes her parents were painted in too harsh a light simply because of their conservative beliefs and support of Trump. Savannah stated that comparing her family to the Trumps during their trial made the process political, and resulted in a harsher sentence than necessary.  Afterwards, Collins began her discussion with her panel of “expert sources”, including CNN’s Elliot Williams, Semafor’s Shelby Talcott, and Reuters’ Jeff Mason. Williams quickly attempted to question the ethical implications of pardoning the Chrisley’s non-violent crimes, stating that: “The jury seemed to think that they were guilty. The appeals court that looked at the case thereafter seemed to think that they were guilty. So this idea that individuals were singled out and treated unfairly by the criminal justice system is just simply ludicrous." However, the panelists, including Semafor’s Shelby Talcott and Reuters' Jeff Mason, suggested that the pardons might be part of a broader pattern of Trump using his clemency power to assist high-profile supporters and donors. Talcott remarked that the President "feels sort of unleashed" and may be using pardons to reward allies, while Mason noted that the Chrisleys' daughter had previously spoken at the Republican National Convention, and drew a parallel between her family's legal battles and Trump's own. Despite these discussions, there is no substantiated evidence linking the pardons to political donations or campaign support, and there is no criteria to be eligible to receive a presidential pardon. For Mason’s part, he threw skepticism at another pardon from Trump’s first term. “The one thing that was striking to me was seeing that video with Alice Johnson standing next to him, because her case was certainly much different, with the exception that her case was championed by another reality TV star, Kim Kardashian,” he noted, failing to mention that Johnson’s pardon had bipartisan support. Johnson had served 20+ years in prison for a non-violent drug crime. This criticism raises an interesting point of contention. While Democrats tend to often advocate for leniency toward non-violent offenders, their criticism of Trump's recent actions highlight an interesting double standard. For instance, the Democratic Party has supported various initiatives aimed at reducing sentences for non-violent offenders, like California's Proposition 57, supported by Democratic lawmakers, which allows parole consideration for nonviolent felons and changes policies on juvenile prosecution.  The left’s criticism of President Trump's pardon of the Chrisleys, as highlighted on The Source, suggest that the opposition doesn’t come from true conviction or belief, but rather is just another way to contradict the actions of Trump, undermine his effectiveness as President, and spread baseless conspiracy theories to fit their agenda.  The full transcript is below. Click "expand" to read. CNNs The Source with Kaitlan Collins May 27, 2025  9:02:39 PM EST (...) KAITLAN COLLINS: Now, any leader who occupies the Oval Office has the power to pardon whomever they want, and many of them certainly have. But only months into the President's second term, we're seeing a pattern take shape as he uses the one authority that no court or Congress can check to help high profile friends, supporters, and donors. Shortly before the White House confirmed that the President was pardoning the Chrisleys, he also pardoned former Virginia Sheriff, Scott Jenkins, an announcement that came just hours before the long-time Trump supporter was expected to report to prison for conspiracy, fraud, and bribery. The President argued that Sheriff Jenkins and his family, quote, "have been dragged through hell by a corrupt and weaponized Biden Justice Department." And tonight, The New York Times is reporting that last month's pardon of Paul Walczak and a tax crimes case came after his mother attended a $1 million per person fundraising dinner for the President at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. My legal source to start us off tonight is CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, who's joined here by my deeply sourced White House insiders, Semafor’s Shelby Talcott and Reuters' Jeff Mason. It's so great to have you all here on our new set tonight. So thank you for joining us. Elliot, I want to get your take, though, because what we heard from the President there in the Oval Office was he was saying that they were unfairly treated, the Chrisleys were, and that is in part why he's– he's pardoning them. We heard that from a White House spokesperson tonight who also just told us before we came on air that's why, based on what you know, is that description accurate? ELLIOT WILLIAMS: Well, before we begin, we were talking beforehand about who'd get to be the first to speak on the new set. And look, I win– I win the contest. JEFF MASON: Elliot wins! COLLINS: I mean technically, its me– WILLIAMS: No, the first– COLLINS: – You’re the first guest. WILLIAMS: The first non-Kaitlan. Lucky person– COLLINS: – It is honored.  WILLIAMS: No, no. Were they treated unfairly? It seemed– COLLINS: – Was this in line? Was this typical? WILLIAMS: No! No! But here's the thing. Like a jury seemed to think that they were guilty. The appeals court that looked at the case thereafter seemed to think that they were guilty. So this idea that individuals were singled out and treated unfairly by the criminal justice system is just simply ludicrous. Now, again, I want to be clear, as you mentioned in-- in the tease here, the President has every power and every right to pardon who he wishes. That's– Article Two of the Constitution makes that quite clear. But the idea that these folks were singled out in some way, nothing in the record seems to indicate that in any way. COLLINS: Yeah. I don't think it's that surprising, though, Jeff and Shelby, to see that this happened. I mean, she was– the Chrisleys were certainly on the President's radar from having Savannah Chrisley speak at the convention, their daughter, to doing interviews that– that obviously the President, she knows, is watching here when it comes to this in terms of what this looks like. And she also was part of a team Trump women's tour, where she was essentially, you know, out there certainly supporting him, but also trying to draw a comparison between her family and how Trump himself has been treated. MASON: I think that was very clever. I mean, listening to her interview with Laura Trump really made me think, well, that's the way to do it, you know, if you've got the connection and you're able to draw a parallel between what you are experiencing and your family and what the President and his family have experienced, which is something that President Trump complains about a lot, feeling like he was falsely or unfairly persecuted, then you're going to get some sympathy. And you also have that reality TV connection. The one thing that was striking to me was seeing that video with Alice Johnson standing next to him, because her case was certainly much different, with the exception that her case was championed by another reality TV star, Kim Kardashian. COLLINS: Yeah, that's a good point. What are you hearing, Shelby, and just seeing in the pattern of how the President is using his pardon power so early on in this term? Sometimes, Presidents wait until later on to use their more controversial pardons that come out. SHELBY TALCOTT: Yeah, I think this term around, the President, in all aspects, feels sort of unleashed. He feels like he can do whatever he wants, for multiple reasons. I remember when– one of the big things I remember when Trump first got into office, was his aides talking about the Biden pardons at the end of President Biden's term and how he pardoned his family, and they felt like that gave them sort of a pass to sort of do whatever they wanted with these pardons, and we're seeing that. And I also think, to Jeff's point, about the, sort of, weaponization of the DOJ argument, we've seen Trump say that with multiple people that he's pardoned. So there's a clear line with Trump believing that these people have– have had these cases that have been weaponized with the DOJ, just like we heard him say on the campaign trail over the past few years, his argument that his own cases were weaponized by the DOJ. (...)

MSNBC’s Jen Psaki went on a 10 minute rant on Tuesday night's episode of The Briefing about President Donald Trump’s pardons where she used biased buzzwords like “abuse of power” to describe Trump’s most recent pardons. She started her morality of pardons rant by saying this about former Virginia Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins: I mean, there was a lot in there, including, okay, so I’m going to make it official with a bag, literally a bag of cash. That was what just happened in that clip, but so basically the sheriff in Culpeper County had been taking bribes for years, as you just saw in that coverage. In the form of both campaign donations and cash in the bag, like the one the guy referenced. And as a side-note, I mean, this is one of the stunning parts of this, he’s doing it in such a – it – this it’s so out in the open it all kind of feels like a poorly scripted budget crime movie.       Psaki claimed it felt like a “poorly scripted budget crime movie.” The crazy thing is that in 2014, they actually made a movie about the same judge that had his sentence commutated by President Biden. The movie titled, “Kids For Cash,” documents the Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan who was convicted in 2011 for sending children to for-profit detention centers in exchange for cash. Psaki, of course, never had anything to say on the matter during Biden’s pardoning spree. Psaki then went on to add: Look, of all the powers Trump has, the pardon power, in my view, has always had one of the greatest potentials for abuse. Trump is using pardon power in a way that no one else has really done before him, rewarding his friends, legitimizing conduct he himself wants to engage in, and likely ignoring many of the people who may legitimately need a presidential pardon or commutation. Psaki talks about how Trump is “using pardon power in a way that no one else has really done before him. This is just an absolutely outlandish claim especially coming from someone who worked as the White House Press Secretary under Joe Biden, who completely pardoned his own son Hunter Biden of several felonies. Her “morally just” viewpoint on presidential pardons obviously only applies to Trump because the summary of her show from February, 2, 2024 declared: “Jen Psaki explains why the news of President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter should not distract you from the people who pose actual threats to our country's national security - like Donald Trump's top cabinet picks.” Psaki followed up by discussing former U.S. Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer: It used to be that the office of the U.S. Pardon Attorney was considered an apolitical job. Their job is to offer unbiased legal expertise on who the president should and should not pardon. Before Trump installed his own handpicked crony, and that guy definitely is, the job of the U.S. Pardon Attorney by this woman. Her name is Liz Oyer, and she held the job of pardon attorney from 2022 until earlier this year. That’s when she says Donald Trump fired her over her refusal to help Trump-connected celebrity, Mel Gibson, get his right to carry a gun back, and since then Liz Oyer has been raising the alarm about abuses of power at Trump’s DOJ. Claiming that Liz Oyer was fired because she failed to help Trump get Mel Gibson’s right to carry back is extremely ironic coming from the pardon attorney who allowed Joe Biden to pardon his son of felony gun charges, or in other words, the exact same crime. Psaki also used to work for President Barack Obama, who famously pardoned Puerto Rican nationalist terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera. As spokesperson for Obama’s State Department, Psaki blasted Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro for offering to trade him for a Venezuelan dissident, but now seems to have conveniently forgotten about him. To view transcript. Click "expand" below. MSNBC: The Briefing With Jen Psaki May, 27th, 2025 9:02:35 PM ET   JEN PSAKI: I mean, there was a lot in there, including, okay, so I’m going to make it official with a bag, literally a bag of cash. That was what just happened in that clip, but so basically the sheriff in Culpeper County had been taking bribes for years, as you just saw in that coverage. In the form of both campaign donations and cash in the bag, like the one the guy referenced. And as a side-note, I mean, this is one of the stunning parts of this, he’s doing it in such a – it – this it’s so out in the open it all kind of feels like a poorly scripted budget crime movie.   (...) 9:03:39 PM EST PSAKI: It’s also why he was convicted of those crimes and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. Ten years, but today, Culpepper County’s corrupt, bribe-taking, sheriff, that is a tongue twister. Is a free man, all thanks to Donald Trump, because the president just issued a full and unconditional pardon to former Culpepper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins. (...) 9:11:12 PM EST PSAKI: Look, of all the powers Trump has, the pardon power, in my view, has always had one of the greatest potentials for abuse. Trump is using pardon power in a way that no one else has really done before him, rewarding his friends, legitimizing conduct he himself wants to engage in, and likely ignoring many of the people who may legitimately need a presidential pardon or commutation. (...) 9:12:28 PM EST PSAKI: It used to be that the office of the U.S. Pardon Attorney was considered an apolitical job. Their job is to offer unbiased legal expertise on who the president should and should not pardon. Before Trump installed his own handpicked crony, and that guy definitely is, the job of the U.S. Pardon Attorney by this woman. Her name is Liz Oyer, and she held the job of pardon attorney from 2022 until earlier this year. That’s when she says Donald Trump fired her over her refusal to help Trump-connected celebrity, Mel Gibson, get his right to carry a gun back, and since then Liz Oyer has been raising the alarm about abuses of power at Trump’s DOJ.

PBS claims that they’re just great at promoting a diversity of viewpoints, but in reality, they mostly channel the left, and sometimes the far left….and they won’t identify them as left. Blink and you might miss it, but on Monday night, the News Hour promoted three leftist Democrats running in House or Senate primaries. The online headline was “How young Democratic candidates are pushing to redefine the party’s future.” The online summary was this: “Young Democratic candidates are launching primary bids for national office in hopes of charting a new path forward for a party in disarray.” Nowhere in this transcript were any ideological labels – liberal, left, progressive, socialist, nothing. PBS reporter Laura Barron-Lopez introduced the segment, but asked no questions, not like how she grilled Biden's Democrat primary challenger Dean Phillips about hurting the Democrats. This looked like an audition tape, not a journalistic product. The three candidates were Mallory McMorrow, running for the open Senate seat in Michigan; Jake Rakov, running against 14-term Rep. Brad Sherman of California (American Conservative Union rating, 6.6 percent); and Kat Abughazaleh, who was running against 13-term Rep. Jan Schakowski of Illinois (ACU rating of 3 percent)...until the congresswoman decided not to run again. So PBS is promoting candidates to the left of the three-percenters.  The nastiness toward Trump was obligatory. Abughazaleh broke out the anti-fascist hot talk: "Every single authoritarian movement thrives when the opposition party refuses to actually stand up to them. Anyone that's taken a middle school history class knows that appeasement isn't effective." There was more of that #Resistance chatter:  ABUGHAZALEH: And that the strategy is to stand back, hands off until 2026 and hope enough people get hurt that they will vote Democrat in the midterms, that's not only morally repugnant. You are banking on people being hurt by this administration. But it's also stupid, because you're letting Trump dismantle this country. JAKE RAKOV: We all knew he was going to be a chaotic, he was going to be unstable, he was going to do power grabs. And to see how slowly they were to respond in the first few months, I think, upset a lot of our base and a lot of other Democratic voters who looked around and said, what are you doing? Do something. Do anything. MALLORY McMORROW: This is about approach. Are you somebody who fights or are you somebody who sits back? Are you active or are you passive? Do you have the ability to break through, meet people where they are and talk to people in a real, human way? And that is my lane. I know how to break through. I know how to communicate with people. The Left is unhappy with the Democrats, and so their taxpayer-funded channel (PBS) is going to feature those extreme voices. Nobody is invited to suggest they're too extreme. Instead, Barron-Lopez turned to journalist Jasmine Wright of NOTUS: "Are Democrats meeting the demands that their voters are placing on them when it comes to confronting President Trump?" Wright said "every Democratic voter I have talked to for the last three months would tell you no, quite frankly. A lot of times, they call them feckless."