PBS Pans ‘Creepy’ Hunter Tri­al That ‘Has Noth­ing To Do With’ Pol­i­cy

When Wash­ing­ton Post asso­ciate edi­tor and MSNBC host Jonathan Cape­hart and New York Times colum­nist David Brooks recapped for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s con­vic­tion on PBS New­sHour one week ago, they hailed it as a vic­to­ry for the rule of law and warned that any­one who dis­sent­ed was sim­ply being polit­i­cal and a grave threat to insti­tu­tions. When it came to dis­cussing Hunter Biden’s tri­al on Fri­day, they sang a dif­fer­ent song.
Host Amna Nawaz declared, “I think it’s fair to say it was a very tough week, a lot of per­son­al and embar­rass­ing anec­dotes and details that came out from a num­ber of peo­ple, Beau Biden’s wid­ow and his ex-wife …