‘Morning Joe’ absolves itself for Hunter Biden coverage, claims ‘we asked the questions’ before 2020 election

This week, the stars of MSNBC’s flagship morning program “Morning Joe” dedicated a segment to what the media got wrong about the Hunter Biden story during the 2020 presidential election while seemingly attempting to whitewash their own dismissals of the New York Post report that blew the scandal wide open.

“Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski began the segment on Wednesday by citing “new” reporting from The Washington Post about Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar business deal with a Chinese energy company, which her show failed to acknowledge for nearly an entire week, according to Grabien transcripts.

Brzezinski awkwardly had to provide a recap to her viewers with a days-old report from NBC News correspondent Pete Williams. Notably, “Morning Joe” also ignored how The New York Times also verified the controversial laptop days before The Washington Post. 

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After asking a guest when the media should have “more aggressively” pursued the Hunter Biden laptop story, co-host Joe Scarborough kept the focus on how the New York Post report was “banned” on social media, calling it “horrific” rather than condemning the liberal media choosing to bury the scandal.

Scarborough also seemed fixated on how the “Trump right” can use the Hunter Biden controversy as a “whataboutism.”

“It also provides many on the Trump right a wonderful opportunity to engage in whataboutism,” Scarborough said. “You look at the corruption of Donald Trump. You look at the crimes committed that he appears that he’s going to get away with… That does not excuse the media for not aggressively going after this story, that does not excuse social media for banning this story at a critical during the campaign, but if people want to know why they’re pushing this so hard, that’s one of the reasons.”