While major media outlets have decided to ignore President Biden ripping a reporter for asking him “dumb questions” throughout his term, there was often fierce attention paid to former President Trump’s spats with the Fourth Estate.
After Biden blasted New York Post reporter Steven Nelson last week for asking a “dumb question” about allegations that as vice president, Biden received $5 million from a Ukrainian executive working on the same energy firm as his son Hunter, both CNN and MSNBC ignored the exchange, according to searches of their transcripts. The New York Times, Washington Post and other major legacy outlets also skipped the story, Fox News Digital found.
But those outlets often berated Trump for any spat he had with journalists during the historically acrimonious relationship he had with the press in office and mourned the lack of decorum.
Outlets including The New York Times, Axios, CNN, Washington Post and NBC have called Trump out for “viciously attacking” journalists,…
