The media elite always had a choice: They could portray the various legal cases against former President and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as partisan — i.e., Democratic prosecutors attempting to bring down a powerful Republican — or as nonpartisan law enforcement just doing its job. Since even before the first indictment of Trump in April, the media made their choice clear: They’re simply not going to tell their viewers that these prosecutions are all Democratic projects.
The latest example is the civil lawsuit brought against Trump’s businesses by New York’s Democratic Attorney General, Letitia James. From September 26 through December 12, this case has been the networks’ top campaign story, with 77 minutes of airtime on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts.
In contrast, the three debates held during these same weeks all received far less…
