Major News Networks Take A Pass On Full Coverage Of Latest Joe Biden Impeachment Inquiry Hearing
20.03.2024 - 18:47
/ deadline.com
The three major news networks largely bypassed live coverage of the latest chapter in a House GOP-led inquiry of whether to impeach President Joe Biden.
That in and of itself was a sign of just how much the effort has been losing steam, even among Republican lawmakers.
The House Oversight hearing, titled “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” featured Tony Bobulinski a former associate of Hunter Biden. Also testifying, albeit remotely, was Jason Galanis, another associate, who is in an Alabama prison serving a sentence for securities fraud.
Also testifying, as a Democratic witness, was Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani. Parnas said that Giuliani, in advance of the 2020 presidential election, trafficked in false claims that the Biden’s were involved in a Ukrainian corruption scheme, and that the Russians were behind the disinformation effort.
CNN, MSNBC and Fox News provided updates of the hearing, but scant live carriage of the proceeding itself.
The hearing itself opened as a bit of a circus. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) came to the hearing wearing a Vladimir Putin mask, telling reporters that “I just came to thank [committee chairman] James Comer for using all of our intelligence and using it in the committee. Maybe he can come see the technology in our grocery stores,” Moskowitz, still wearing the mark, told reporters.
In his opening statement, Bobulinski said that “Joe Biden was ‘the Brand’ being sold by the Biden family” as part of a “foreign influence peddling operation – from China to Ukraine and elsewhere.” He claimed that Biden met with him and other of his son’s business associates “to further the business, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain