Net­works Mourn Indef­i­nite Post­pone­ment of Trump Clas­si­fied Docs Tri­al

Across the dial, the net­work evening news­casts closed their cov­er­age of the Trump busi­ness records tri­al in New York with cov­er­age of anoth­er mat­ter- the clas­si­fied doc­u­ments tri­al in Flori­da fed­er­al court. Specif­i­cal­ly, a col­lec­tive mourn­ing over the fact that this tri­al won’t go before the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.
Most emblem­at­ic of the cov­er­age: ABC, with its lengthy (for a brief) anchor intro­duc­tion and fram­ing ques­tion. Watch the full report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Tue …