On Thursday, President Biden commuted jail sentences for nearly 1,500 people and granted 39 pardons, marking the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. So it was a little odd that ABC, CBS, and NBC all ignored Biden’s pardons and clemencies — unless they were trying not to remind people of the scandalous Hunter Biden pardon.
The PBS NewsHour actually led with this story for five minutes — without any mention of Hunter. NPR’s All Things Considered reported it as well — with no Hunter note.
None of the networks wanted to touch Biden’s decision to grant clemency to Jin Shinlan, a Chinese national (from a family with Chinese Communist Party connections) who pleaded guilty to possession of thousands of child pornography images in 2022. This wasn’t in the Thursday batch, but it was part of the package deal to get three Americans released from…
