Between Thursday night and Friday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC added another few news cycles to the manufactured “controversy” and “firestorm” surrounding former President Trump’s Monday visit to Arlington National Cemetery with families of the 13 Americans killed in August 2021 in Afghanistan, declaring it “isn’t over yet”.
Worse yet, they opened a second front by suddenly (and disingenuously) acting like fiscal conservatives over Trump promising to make in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments free. It was, in other words, a repeat of the tax-on-tips double standard.
ABC was apoplectic on both. Thursday’s World News Tonight featured weekend anchor Whit Johnson boasting of “the growing controversy” and “new fallout from former President Trump’s stop at Arlington National Cemetery”, citing an Army statement trashing Trump.
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