The Elitist Media have mostly refused to cover the steady stream of heinous crimes committed by immigrants, legal or otherwise. ABC News appears to have broken the streak, as they covered the horrific murder of a DHS employee just outside Atlanta. Watch the report in its entirety as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026: ABC is the first network to report on the heinous murder of Lauren Bullis, a DHS employee, at the hands of a questionably naturalized U.K native with a criminal record. pic.twitter.com/ZmBjjvrVJD — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 16, 2026 DAVID MUIR: To Atlanta now. And this evening, a suspect is now under arrest after a string of attacks in the Atlanta area, leaving two people dead, including a Homeland Security Employee. Authorities say Lauren Bullis was killed while walking her dog. Another victim also killed, and a third man in critical condition. The attacks unfolding over a matter of hours. Authorities say the suspect is a U.K. native granted U.S. citizenship in 2022. Authorities believe the victims may have been targeted at random. The report was, admittedly, brief. But Muir got most of the key details in there. Chiefly, that the killer was naturalized during the Biden administration. A little bit more detail, per the Department of Homeland Security: WASHINGTON – Today, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Olaolukitan Adon Abel, a 26-year-old born in the United Kingdom, who was naturalized by the Biden Administration in 2022, brutally murdered DHS employee and public servant Lauren Bullis on April 13. This individual possesses a prior criminal record that includes convictions for sexual battery, battery against a police officer, obstruction, assault with a deadly weapon, and vandalism, and now stands accused of murdering Lauren Bullis in a brutal shooting and stabbing while she was walking her dog. Several questions emerge. If this criminal record was accrued before naturalization, why did the Biden Administration go ahead and make Adon Abel a citizen anyway? And if any of this happened afterwards, why was there no effort to denaturalize? And if the record followed him from the U.K., why was he even allowed into the country? Three people are dead now because these questions weren’t answered in a timely manner. At least ABC did a brief- infinitely more than did CBC and NBC. CBS absolutely had to make time for the Santacon bust and the dumpster company dropping a full trailer’s worth of trash on a front lawn over non-payment. NBC made time for the pilots that meowed and barked over the radio, and for the newborn baby elephant at the Smithsonian Zoo. This isn’t to say that ABC didn’t cover their fair share of frivolity, but at least they reported this other grave matter first. Today, at least.

On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough accused Israel of carrying out “random” strikes on civilians in Lebanon—while insisting, implausibly, that his framing was not a “leading question.” “The next question I ask is going to sound like a leading question. It is not a leading question,” Scarborough claimed, before proceeding to deliver exactly that. “We see these strikes against residential areas from Israel, from Netanyahu’s forces into Lebanon,” he said, before asking his guest, Lebanese journalist Kim Ghattas of the Financial Times, “what does Benjamin Netanyahu think he’s doing… by having these random strikes?” Scarborough didn’t stop there. He invoked Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, suggesting a moral equivalence: “When Vladimir Putin does that… we all rightly call it a war crime.” Scarborough’s framing ignored a key distinction. Russia has repeatedly and deliberately targeted civilians, including strikes on homes and other purely civilian targets in Ukraine. Israel maintains it is striking terrorist targets operating from within civilian populations—an unfortunate reality in conflicts involving groups like Hezbollah. Even Ghattas—a Lebanese journalist who wrote a gushy book about Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State —was reluctant to embrace Scarborough’s premise. “I want to be very careful with how I answer this question, because some of these strikes are not random,” she said, noting that in many cases Israel was targeting Hezbollah operatives or Iranian Revolutionary Guard figures embedded within civilian areas. WATCH: Scarborough Accuses Israel of ‘Random Strikes’ on Lebanese Civilians pic.twitter.com/PKfqitoiEd — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) April 15, 2026 Scarborough also personalized the strikes as those of “Netanyahu’s forces,” a familiar media framing, and attempted to draw an emotional response from Ghattas by referencing her “friends and relatives” possibly affected by the strikes. The result was a question that was not only leading—but built on a premise that even his own guest declined to accept. If Scarborough wants to make analogies about countries being the target of random strikes, he could mention the estimated 19,000 unguided rockets launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad at Israel since the October 7 massacre in southern Israel. Here's the transcript. MS NOW Morning Joe 4/15/26 6:11 am EDT JOE SCARBOROUGH: Kim, the next question I ask is going to sound like a leading question. It is not a leading question. I'm just curious. We see these strikes against apartments. We see these strikes against residential areas from Israel, from Netanyahu's forces into Lebanon. And we hear that they're degrading Hezbollah.  Of course, when Vladimir Putin does that in Ukraine, we all rightly call it a war crime.  I'm curious, when you're talking about your relatives, and your friends, and friends of friends who have lost their parents, the innocent civilians who are being killed here, I need to better understand what does Benjamin Netanyahu think he's doing in degrading Hezbollah by having these random strikes?  What is, what's Israel's logic? How does bombing apartments in the middle of Lebanon, how does that degrade Hezbollah?  KIM GHATTAS: I want to be very careful with how I answer this question, because some of these strikes are not random.  And certainly Israel insists that they are not random, that they were targeting very specific Hezbollah members or commanders.  And in many cases, that is indeed what happened, that in some of these civilian neighborhoods, members of Hezbollah, relatives of high-ranking commanders. In one case, we had IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards of Iran, checked into a hotel.  That is why the anger in Lebanon is growing, because members of Hezbollah are operating across many parts of the country where they don't usually operate.  That does not justify targeting areas that are civilian. That does lead you into terrain of illegality. And the civilian toll is very real.  So Israel can justify that as what they call collateral damage. But those are lives that are being taken and that should not have people who should not have died.  And so it's a very difficult balance. As I said, Lebanon really feels stuck between Israel's military advantage and capacity, and Iran and Hezbollah's disregard for the Lebanese civilian toll. 

The Elitist Media continue to treat the exchanges between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV as an opportunity to try to drive Catholics from the President’s coalition ahead of the midterms. And absolutely no one is more ham-handed about it than ABC News. Watch Rachel Scott’s report rehashing the controversy, with a sprinkling of Vice President JD Vance’s remarks at a Turning Point USA Event in Georgia, as aired on ABC’s World News Tonight on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 (click "expand" to view transcript):  WATCH: @ABCWorldNews continues to ham-handedly try to pry Catholics away from President Trump's coalition. DAVID MUIR: Tonight, Vice President JD Vance now warning the Pope to, quote, “be careful.” What Vance was talking about as President Trump lashes out against Pope Leo. And… pic.twitter.com/ffS1oyOuwY — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 16, 2026 embed DAVID MUIR: Tonight, Vice President JD Vance now warning the Pope to, quote, “be careful.” What Vance was talking about as President Trump lashes out against Pope Leo. And tonight on The Hill, the leading Republican in the Senate now saying the focus should be on the economy, gas prices and not going after the Pope. Here's Rachel Scott. RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight, the backlash after Vice President JD Vance told Pope Leo, the spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, he needs to be careful when talking about matters of theology. JD VANCE: I think that it's important in the same way that it's important for the Vice President of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the Pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology. RACHEL SCOTT: The Pope has spoken out during the war on Iran, criticizing President Trump's rhetoric about destroying a civilization, declaring on Palm Sunday, “Jesus does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, takes issue with that. VANCE: Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated Holocaust camps and liberated those- those innocent people from, you know, those who had survived the Holocaust? I…I certainly think the answer is yes. SCOTT: The Vice President doubling down on his criticism of the American Pope. VANCE: If you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful. You've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth. SCOTT: Tonight, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops pushing back, saying: “When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he's not merely offering opinions on theology. He is preaching the gospel.” The Pope himself had nothing to say about the Vice President's comments. He was in Algeria, an overwhelmingly Muslim country where he visited a mosque. POPE LEO XIV: Although we have different beliefs, we have different ways of worshiping, we have different ways of living. We can live together in peace. SCOTT: The Pope calling that message something the world needs to hear today.  Back here in Washington many lawmakers, including some Republicans, are not happy with what the President and the Vice President have been saying about the Pope. In fact, the top Republican in the Senate with this message to the administration saying focus on the pocketbook issues and, quote: “let the Church be the Church," David. MUIR: Rachel Scott at The White House tonight. Thank you, Rachel. ABC is doing everything in their power to keep this beef alive and going. And they stand alone in doing so as CBS and ABC have already moved on.Their putting all this effort into pretending to care what Catholics think about the issues of the day is almost cute to watch- in a “bless your heart” sort of way.  The report itself clocked in at about 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Scott threw everything and the kitchen sink at Vice President JD Vance as he addressed the controversy at the TPUSA event. Scott even went on to note that Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019. That observance stands as an implicit and unexpressed “how dare this new convert question the Pope” dog whistle. And yet the question remains: when did ABC ever care about what Catholics think? The answer is that they really don’t outside of whatever The Narrative™ might be on any given day. The Pope is getting all this run because he’s expressed opposition to the Iran operation and has spoken out against immigration enforcement- both positions contrary to policy put forth by the Trump administration. But you never saw this same concern when the Obama Administration sued the Little Sisters of the Poor in order to force them to pay for abortifacients, when Kamala Harris persecuted David Daleiden for exposing Planned Parenthood's sale of baby parts, or when the Biden Administration locked pro-lifers up under the FACE Act. Likewise, you never hear the media covering Democrat criticisms of the Pope when he speaks out against abortion or same-sex marriage or the ordination of women. The Elitist Media recoil at those expressions of faith. This report was little more than ABC doing a long-form version of the meme with the smug liberal saying, “No I'm not a Christian and I have nothing but contempt for your backward religious beliefs so yeah, this argument wouldn't work on me but maybe if I use it on you, you'll do what I want.” These fake appeals to authority ring hollow and persuade no one.

In his constant stretch of monologues, on Tuesday night, MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell made more Hitler comparisons about President Trump and Iran. He latched onto the comments from a U.K. Parliament member who called Trump a “gangster” as similar to Winston Churchill's comments about Hitler, where Churchill called the dictator a “monster of wickedness” amid World War II.  His comments continued a trend of O’Donnell’s Hitler comparisons, even as just last week he suggested Hitler wasn’t as bad as Trump because he didn’t threaten to kill a whole civilization. Did he miss something? O’Donnell spent a large portion of his monologue on the “international sound of resistance to Trump” as he used election results in Hungary and Canada as his examples.   Tuesday night, MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell once again made a Trump-Hitler comparison, as he likened Winston Churchill's comments from 1941, which called Hitler a "monster of wickedness," to Ed Davey's comments in UK Parliament that called Trump a "dangerous and corrupt gangster." pic.twitter.com/bH0bzZX1SJ — Nick (@nspin310) April 15, 2026   The Last Word host introduced “resistance” in the British House of Commons as he shared an old statement from former British PM Winston Churchill from 1941 during World War II: “Hitler is a monster of wickedness.” He then shared the statement heard the other day in U.K. Parliament from Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey, whose party had gained in polls but had no current power in U.K. Politics, unless Kier Starmer’s low approval would lead to the fall of the Labour Party. Davey called Trump, as O’Donnell described it, “a dangerous and corrupt gangster.” O’Donnell used Davey’s comments to say the U.S. was not the leader of the free world anymore: A monster of wickedness. Words to describe the worst, most murderous dictator in European history and world history. And yesterday in the British parliament, the words “he is a dangerous and corrupt gangster” were used to describe the President of the United States, an office once occupied by the President who beat Adolf Hitler in World War II. He then continued to go after the phrase ‘leader of the free world,’ which he said no one used anymore, to praise Davey’s full comments about “how reckless, immoral, and completely outside the bounds of international law this president is.” Here was O’Donnell on the phrase “leader of the free world”: The phrase was always a fiction, falsely suggesting that the world could be led by anyone or even half the world, the so-called free world, could be led. The American news media that's so mindlessly used that term for all of Donald Trump's lifetime, as unconsciously, I presume, dropped it. When is the last time you heard Donald Trump referred to as the leader of the free world? No one in the news media could possibly use that phrase about him. O’Donnell finally actually played the Davey clip from Parliament, which was focused on international law and the “end of civilization” Truth Social post. Davey said: “Regrettably, he is no friend of the United Kingdom. He is no leader of the free world. He is a dangerous and corrupt gangster, and that is how we must treat him.” It was quite more than a little stretch to compare Winston Churchill to a modern U.K. Member of Parliament’s comments about a world leader he does not like. O’Donnell clearly could not help himself with the Hitler comparisons. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell April 14, 2026 10:13:17 PM Eastern (...) LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: The international sound of resistance to Donald Trump was heard in the British House of Commons, and the language used to describe Donald Trump was on a par with the language Winston Churchill used to describe Adolf Hitler during World War II. WINSTON CHURCHILL (JUNE 22, 1941): Hitler is a monster of wickedness. O’DONNELL: A monster of wickedness. Words to describe the worst, most murderous dictator in European history and world history. And yesterday in the British parliament, the words “he is a dangerous and corrupt gangster” were used to describe the President of the United States, an office once occupied by the President who beat Adolf Hitler in World War II. The leader of the free world is a phrase invented during the television age and applied by the American news media to the president of the United States. While most of the rest of the world didn't quite see it that way.  The phrase was always a fiction, falsely suggesting that the world could be led by anyone or even half the world, the so-called free world, could be led. The American news media that's so mindlessly used that term for all of Donald Trump's lifetime, as unconsciously, I presume, dropped it. When is the last time you heard Donald Trump referred to as the leader of the free world? No one in the news media could possibly use that phrase about him. Now, the news media that's so overdid that phrase has mercifully dropped it without ever having had a meeting about, hey, let's not use that phrase anymore. It just disappeared. It's just so obvious to everyone, including everyone in the news media.  But Donald Trump is not even a leader of his own country. And so the phrase has disappeared. Leader of the free world. It has just disappeared from recent usage, but it was revived yesterday on the floor of the House of Commons, only to rip it away from Donald Trump. Edward Davey is the leader of the Liberal Democrats in parliament, and he rose yesterday to say this. ED DAVEY (UK LIBERAL DEMOCRATS LEADER): A whole civilization will die tonight. Words I never thought I would hear from an American president. And though Donald Trump thankfully didn't follow through this time, these words are a stark reminder of how reckless, immoral, and completely outside the bounds of international law this president is.  Regrettably, he is no friend of the United Kingdom. He is no leader of the free world. He is a dangerous and corrupt gangster, and that is how we must treat him. O’DONNELL: A dangerous and corrupt gangster that will no doubt be the title of at least one biography of Donald Trump, probably by a British historian. That is the kind of description of Donald Trump that will live in history because of where it was given, because of when it was given, and because of the otherwise positive history, centuries of positive history between presidents of the United States and the British Parliament.  Presidents of the United States, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II, were treated as heroes by the British parliament, heroes. And now the president of the United States can be called a dangerous and corrupt gangster in parliament. And no one shouts that down. No one disagrees, and that is how we must treat him, says Edward Davey. And no one disagrees with that. Edward Davey described Donald Trump's latest fit of madness in his war in Iran. (...)

On Tuesday, Mediaite told Status’s Oliver Darcy it had suspended founding editor Colby Hall “pending further investigation” for “errors” in the sites’s One Sheet newsletter that Hall had insisted “were purely a result of sloppiness in how he aggregated and categorized information, not from the issue of AI.” This was despite the fact that he had hours earlier told Semafor he used AI in a “limited way” to cull over a dozen media sites (including NewsBusters) each weekday. Hall’s excuses to Semafor spanned the gambit. Regardless of whether AI was actually to directly blame for the errors, this case nonetheless raises serious yet predictable and uncomfortable questions for those who believe AI should be used to write copy and replace humans (click “expand”): In an email to Semafor, Hall told Semafor that while he uses AI in a “limited way,” all “written ideas, angles, summaries, takes, and editorial judgments are mine.” He said the mistakes were the result of problems with his production process. Hall said he has a spreadsheet populated with dozens of newsletters, organizing the sheet with “columns for source, writer, topic, angle, summary, and takeaway.” He said his recent errors “originated in the data entry process.” “Like many editors, I use AI in a limited way as part of my editorial workflow — primarily as a copy and organizational aid,” he said. “Unfortunately, we’ve made mistakes that are easy to jump on. I’m committed to ensuring that mistakes like this don’t happen in the future, but if they do, we will honor those with corrections,” he said. Darcy wrote Tuesday night about a number of remarkable instances where Hall had either “invent[ed] stories out of thin air, fabricate[d] quotes, or misattribute[d] reporting to the wrong person or outlet” in One Sheet, starting with this one from earlier in the month about Breaker’s Lachlan Cartwright: Earlier this month, Colby Hall, founding editor of Mediaite and author of its One Sheet newsletter, celebrated independent media journalist Lachlan Cartwright. In the newsletter—which aims to round up and summarize reporting from other subscription outlets—Hall awarded Cartwright “Newsletter of the Day” for supposedly reporting on how Status lost a scoop about Jeff Shell negotiating his exit from Paramount. There was just one problem: Cartwright never reported any such thing. Following its heavily publicized launch at the start of the year (including a story in The Spectator, which I was quoted in), Darcy added murmurs began “in media circles for egregious errors and writing that bore an eerie resemblance to ChatGPT.” Along with Hall having assigned fake or misattributed quotes to Breaker and Status, Darcy charted his site as having been a victim of outright plagiarism on March 20 while, in various editions of One Sheet, The Bulwark’s Will Sommer, CNN’s Brian Stelter, and Harvard’s Nieman Lab were credited for quotes they never penned. Darcy argued Hall’s “most serious error yet” was in Monday’s One Sheet when he asserted Status had “quietly rewrote” its April 10 edition about CNN boss Mark Thompson possibly laying the groundwork for a successor whenever he chooses to step down. As a Status subscriber, that’s simply not possible as, while it has a website, it exists as a daily newsletter. Thus, once it’s sent, it can’t be rewritten. But, wait, there was more: “Hall appeared to outright fabricate a quote and attribute it to our very own Jon Passantino, putting us on heavily blast on Mediaite’s website and in its newsletter for something we did not do.” Darcy called of this “unusual...for a reporter tasked with covering the news industry—and who regularly calls out others for ethical breaches—to be caught in a scandal of his own making” and could cast doubt on whether paying for a subscription would be a worthwhile investment. A frequent basher of our friend and conservative talk radio icon Mark Levin, Hall has been an occasional target at NewsBusters over the years. Most recently in January, we pointed out Hall was less than enthused and more disgusted by the CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil’s five core values, specifically the declaration that “We Love America.” Last June, our Tim Graham discussed on the NewsBusters Podcast Hall’s bizarre hot take that the White House had made then-New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a liberal foil.