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Damning statistics reveal how ABC, CBS and NBC obsessed over January 6
but ignored Biden's family pardons
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Published: 11:07 EST, 27 January 2025 | Updated: 11:30 EST, 27 January 2025

The mainstream media spent an average of 46 minutes covering Donald
Trump's January 6 pardons but just three minutes covering Biden's
pardoning of his own family, new analysis has found.

Between January 20 and January 22, ABC, NBC and CBS devoted 15 times as
much airtime to Trump's pardons than they did Biden's, the analysis by
The Media Research Center found.

The anchors who led the coverage included ABC's George Stephanopoulos
and CBS's Norah O'Donnell.

Biden issued a series of preemptive pardons for family members James B.
Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis
W. Biden in the final hours of his administration.

He also pardoned younger brother James' wife, Sara; his sister, Valerie;
her husband, John; and his younger brother, Francis Biden, for
'nonviolent' actions dating back 10 years. In December, Biden pardoned
son Hunter, despite vowing not to.

But newscasters barely covered it. Instead, they obsessed over the
controversy surrounding Trump, the MRC found.

The study comes days as CNN and NBC recover from sweeping layoffs.

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The statistic, calculated by The Media Research Center (MRC), pertains
to broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CBS that aired beginning on
Inauguration Day through the morning of January 22. Pictured, a still
from ABC World News Tonight with David Muir this past Tuesday
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The statistic, calculated by The Media Research Center (MRC), pertains
to broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CBS that aired beginning on
Inauguration Day through the morning of January 22. Pictured, a still
from ABC World News Tonight with David Muir this past Tuesday

'Tonight, President Donald Trump's first full day in office, and the
growing fallout after he pardoned the January 6th rioters,' NBC's Lester
Holt told viewers as they tuned into Tuesday's version of the Nightly
News, after touching on Biden's pardons the day before
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'Tonight, President Donald Trump's first full day in office, and the
growing fallout after he pardoned the January 6th rioters,' NBC's Lester
Holt told viewers as they tuned into Tuesday's version of the Nightly
News, after touching on Biden's pardons the day before

Over on CBS, an outgoing Norah O'Donnell devoted an entire segment to
interview U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger
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Over on CBS, an outgoing Norah O'Donnell devoted an entire segment to
interview U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger

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On Tuesday January 21st, Lester Holt kicked off NBC's coverage with the following segment.

'Tonight, President Donald Trump's first full day in office, and the
growing fallout after he pardoned the January 6th rioters.

'The president... faces backlash for pardoning more than a thousand
January 6 defendants, including many found guilty of assaulting police officers,' he continued.

The anchor went on to highlight the prospect of leaders of the far-right
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers - among nearly 200, he said - 'walking free'
after their crimes.

Over on ABC, World News Tonight's David Muir said much of the same.

'Tonight, President Trump, just moments ago, on why he pardoned more
than 1,500 defendants in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, including
those who assaulted officers.

He went on to advertise awaiting interviews with officers 'who came
under attack,' sparking accusations of bias in the process.

'David Muir mentions Trump’s pardons but there is no mention of Biden’s pardons of 30 convicted killers plus pardons for Biden’s family and
Fauci for crimes not even arrested for yet. Hey sponsors - you like
this?' one X user wrote moments later.

'ABC just won't quit with bashing President Trump,' another user added.
'David Muir is making more of an issue of the J6 pardons than @JoeBiden pardoning his son, family, and the entire J6 committee.'

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos
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CBS anchor Gayle King (right) also offered substantial commentary on the
Jan 6 pardons on January 21st
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CBS anchor Gayle King (right) also offered substantial commentary on the
Jan 6 pardons on January 21st - as did Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos

Over on CBS, O'Donnell devoted an entire segment to interview U.S.
Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger.

A day later, amid waning ratings that's seen her lose ground to both
Holt and Muir and reportedly subject to a more than $4million pay curt,
she signed off her Evening News desk for good.

Manger, meanwhile, argued that Trump's sweeping pardons on January 6
defendants had upset a lot of officers, and 'had an impact on our
communities nationwide.'

Earlier in the day, O'Donnell's longtime colleague Gayle King also
offered substantial commentary on the then-unfolding situation - as did
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos.

Both clashed with newly named Secretary of State Marco Rubio, over past comments that saw him brand January 6, 2021, as a 'national embarrassment'.

'I don’t anticipate a single one of our partners will ask about it, obviously,” Rubio said in response, as a video he shared on the social platform X that day circulated.

'My job is to focus on the foreign policy of the United States. I have a different job this morning and a different focus. … I won’t be opining
on domestic matters at this point.'

Stephanopoulos went on to ask whether Rubio no longer felt the events
of January 6 impacted the US' standing in the world - to which he said,
'I’m focused singularly on foreign policy and how I interact with our allies.'

A back-and-forth was also seen between King and Rubio in a similar
interview the same on CBS, where King pressed the head of state for his
former comments about the insurrection.

'Many people believe - including the American people -[they] were not in
favor of these blanket pardons,' King began

'In February, 2021, even you issued a statement... you said, the images
of the attacks stirred up anger of you... [that] the nation was
embarrassed in the eyes of the world by our own citizens.

'How do you personally reconcile those feelings with the pardons that he
did yesterday?'

Again, Rubio offered a similar response - before being grilled on the
very same subject by NBC's new co-host, Craig Melvin, on the set of Today.

Meanwhile, on January 6, 2021, a total of five people died - one from an overdose, one shot by Capitol police, and three from natural causes. The
latter included a cop who died a day after being assaulted - his death
deemed an unrelated occurrence
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Meanwhile, on January 6, 2021, a total of five people died - one from an overdose, one shot by Capitol police, and three from natural causes. The
latter included a cop who died a day after being assaulted - his death
deemed an unrelated occurrence

Over the course of his presidency, Biden issued 8,064 pardons during his tenure, including preemptive ones for every member of his family except
Jill and daughter Ashley
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Over the course of his presidency, Biden issued 8,064 pardons during his tenure, including preemptive ones for every member of his family except
Jill and daughter Ashley

'I recall that you said, shortly after the attack on the Capitol, where
you were that day, that it was one of the saddest days in American
history,' Melvin said, after the show touched on Biden's pardons the day
before with one single segment.

He went on to show Rubio's comments offered to reports on January 6,
2021, where he likened the US, at the time, to Putin's Russia.

'What message does this pardoning, nearly all of them, send to the rest
of the world?' Melvin, a journalist with NBC News for the past decade-and-a-half, asked.

After some hesitance from Rubio, Melvin pressed more - consistent with
the other station's particular style of journalism surrounding the
January 6 pardons.

The desire to pick and prod at politicians' stance at the subject saw
the reporting involving Biden emerging the day before pale in
comparison, as it continued into the subsequent day.

More segments and monologues awaited, as the stories surrounding Biden's executive actions faded into relative obscurity.

Biden also issued pre-emptive pardons for General Mike Milley, Dr.
Anthony Fauci, former Rep. Liz Cheney, and other lawmakers who
investigated the January 6 riot.

Over the course of his presidency, the 82-year-old issued 8,064 pardons
during his tenure, including ones for every member of his family -
except wife Jill and daughter Ashley.

The statistics surrounding the coverage comes as NBC News conducted a
round of layoffs on Thursday, after CNN laid off 200 it staffer as part
of a long-talked shift toward a more digital-centered outfit.

Oliver Darcy, CNN Media Analyst Brian Stelter's long-billed successor
but now the founder of Status, reported both rounds of firings last week
in his newsletter

The Status report, published about eight hours before the CNN layoffs an
as networks engaged in their pardon reporting, stated that 'ABC News is anticipating "long-rumored layoffs" too,' also amid flailing ratings.

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