Monday morning was like experiencing a bifurcated reality. While right-leaning news outlets focused on Devon Archer’s congressional Oversight Committee hearing, MSNBC’s Morning Joe was entranced by former President Trump’s comments connecting Joe Biden to potential Ukrainian corruption.
On Fox & Friends, anchor Ainsley Earhardt broke down the story: “We begin with a Fox News alert on two major stories that we’re following for you this morning. First, Hunter Biden’s former business associate Devon Archer, expected to testify on Capitol Hill this morning at 10 o’clock. In that closed-door testimony, he’s expected to reveal Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in multiple phone calls regarding foreign business deals when he was the Vice President.” Columnist Will Cain added, “It will be interesting to see if our suspicion is confirmed, some testimony to back up the idea that Joe Biden maybe was sitting right next to Hunter Biden when he threatened the Chinese official. Or that Joe Biden did get on the phone with Ukrainian energy officials.”
In the following hours, MSNBC’s Morning Joe would meet these news reports by bashing Trump for supposedly fabricating stories. Host Jonathan Lemire proclaimed, “President Donald Trump has created a false narrative around Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and will go to the mat for that narrative.” Additionally, Politico’s Sam Stein determined that Trump must not have learned his lesson, as he “had been previously impeached for this type of behavior.”
Remarkably, Morning Joe’s discussion only contained a fleeting reference to Hunter Biden’s Burisma board seat, without any mention of the organization paying out over $11 million to his company. Moreover, Morning Joe failed to mention that the Biden Justice Department requested a speedy jailing of Archer, as if to intimidate any further testimony against the Biden-Ukraine rigging.
For decades, the liberal media has exonerated the Democratic party, while attempting to publicly defame the Republican party. MSNBC, in particular, has shielded Biden and sought to advance his interests by suppressing damning evidence, like Archer’s possible testimony.
It’s evident that this ill-considered stealth strategy is only to cement Biden’s presidential prospects. To be sure, if Joe Biden was truly innocent in the Biden-Ukraine debacle, then Morning Joe should have no objections in taking a closer look at the possible evidence.
Transcript:
Fox News:
AINSLEY EARHARDT: We begin with a Fox News alert on two major stories that we’re following for you this morning. First, Hunter Biden’s former business associate Devon Archer, expected to testify on Capitol Hill this morning at 10 o’clock. In that closed-door testimony, he’s expected to reveal that Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in multiple phone calls regarding foreign business deals when he was the Vice President.
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WILL CAIN: It will be fascinating to see what gets advanced today at the House Oversight Committee with Devon Archer. Because, closed-door testimony, we expect that the transcript will be released at some point. That starts, by the way, at 10:00 am Eastern time.
It’s, it’s on one hand, a story that he expect some, and it’ll be interesting to see if our suspicion is confirmed, some testimony to, to back up the idea that Joe Biden maybe was sitting right next to Hunter Biden when he threatened the Chinese official. Or that Joe Biden did get on the phone with Ukrainian energy officials.
EARHARDT: Speaker phone.
CAIN: It’s, it’s the potential for first-hand testimony that confirms many of our suspicions.
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MSNBC- Morning Joe
JONATHAN LEMIRE: Trump had the big crowd in Iowa, and another one at a rally in the battleground state of Pennsylvania over the weekend. And he’s continuing to suggest, Trump is, that the Bidens were involved in a bribery scheme with Burisma. You’ll recall, that’s the Ukraine energy company where Hunter Biden once served on the board.
And, on Saturday, at that Erie, Pennsylvania rally, Trump demanded that further military aid to Ukraine be withheld until the Biden administration turns over everything related to the Biden family’s business dealings.
DONALD TRUMP: Joe Biden is compromised. He’s dragging us into a global conflict on behalf of the very same country, Ukraine, that apparently paid his family all of these millions of dollars.
In light of this information, the U.S. Congress should refuse to authorize a single additional payment of our depleted stockpiles. But the weapon stockpiles to Ukraine until the FBI, DoJ and IRS hand over every scrap of evidence they have on the Biden crime family’s corrupt business dealings. We have to know, and the public deserves to know.
In addition, Congress should immediately vote to block Joe Biden’s recent call-up of reserve forces. We’re sending our troops over to Europe to fight. We’re sending ships to fuel this escalating conflict. Not a single American life should be put at risk because crooked Joe Biden has been illegally paid off. He’s been paid off. This is a corrupt president.
LEMIRE: Hang on. So Donald Trump is suggesting the U.S. withhold military aid unless Ukraine turns over information about the Bidens. Doesn’t that sound extraordinarily familiar? You’ll recall that Trump was impeached the first time for his attempts to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election, including—wait for it—withholding aid to Ukraine in exchange for information on Joe Biden.
Sam Stein, we have traveled back in time, apparently, and we should note, first of all, one bit of fact-checking, that there are not American soldiers being sent to fight in Europe. That’s not — what Trump said there — is not correct.
But here he is doing — calling for exactly what got him impeached the first time. Sam, does anything matter anymore?
SAM STEIN: Jonathan, time is a flat circle. Clearly. We are in the loop here. I’m not surprised that Trump was not chastened by his first impeachment. It was a perfect phone call. This will be branded a perfect speech. And that’s just how he rolls.
Morning Joe appears to be somewhat nearsighted or perhaps just extremely biased.