For weeks, liberal TV news have showered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s legal team with friendly press. So far this month, the attorneys defending Garcia, the deported illegal alien from El Salvador, have sat for 28 friendly interviews on corporate media airwaves, or more than one per day.
MRC analysts combed through SnapStream recordings and Nexis transcripts from April 1 through April 23 for every interview of Garcia’s attorneys on liberal broadcast (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and cable (CNN and MSNBC) networks. Throughout those 23 days, five lawyers representing Garcia — Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Rina Gandhi, Benjamin Osorio, Chris Newman, and Alexandra Ribe — were interviewed a total of 28 times.
While most aired on cable channels, it was the April 1 edition of CBS Evening News that televised the first interview. The attorney in question was Simon…