The immediate aftermath of ABC’s defamation settlement with President-Elect Donald Trump coincided with George Stephanopoulos’s scheduled turn to host ABC This Week. Stephanopoulos’s presentation was cosmetically muted, but unchanged in terms of bilious bias and disregard for facts.
The first apparent change in tone came during the show’s introduction: a focus on the drones of indeterminate (or undisclosed) origin flying over New Jersey, in lieu of the usual anti-Trump hysterics:
What a difference a $15M settlement makes: ABC’s George Stephanopoulos kicks off ABC This Week with the hard-newsy NJ drone story, as opposed to the usual editorial caterwauling over Trump pic.twitter.com/zBrDPHJ0rv
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 15, 2024
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, and welcome to This Week. In its final weeks, the Biden administration is…
