PBS News live coverage of Donald Trump’s second inauguration featured PBS News Hour co-anchors Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz and included Laura Barron-Lopez, stationed at the White House.
Barron-Lopez, as always, was a reliable defender of the Democrat president, adopting a partisan double standard on the last-minute pre-emptive family pardons issued by Joe Biden, an abuse of presidential power rejected by other members of the mainstream press, including Chris Cillizza and Jake Tapper, and even Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer (at least regarding possible Trump pardons back in 2020). Barron-Lopez was copacetic in her 1:16 p.m., post-inauguration report:
Laura Barron-Lopez: Amna, in the final minutes of his presidency, before he was heading to the Capitol with now sworn-in President Trump, President Biden issued some very last-minute pardons,…
