On Thursday night, both ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News framed the news of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s guilty plea on charges related to mishandling classified documents as an example of successful legal retribution against President Trump’s perceived enemies. NBC even failed to mention how the investigation into Bolton began under the Biden Administration’s control of the Department of Justice.
ABC anchor David Muir called Bolton one of Trump’s “harshest critics” before he turned it over to chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas, who claimed “retribution”:
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