Hunter Biden’s conviction on federal gun charges set the Regime Media into a firefighting frenzy with the aim of Protecting the Precious- in other words, ensuring that President Joe Biden faces as little political damage as possible over the verdict, and safeguarding the post-conviction narrative.
The most emblematic of this coverage comes via the most Biden-servile of the major three network newscasts. Here’s David Muir’s introduction to coverage of the verdict on ABC World News Tonight, which might have been serviceable as a standalone brief, but is needlessly cumbersome as an anchor intro to a longer report (click “expand” for transcript):
DAVID MUIR: Good evening and we begin tonight with the historic verdict. For the first time, the child of a sitting president has been convicted of a felony. Hunter Biden found guilty on all three felony…
