Dan Abrams Dumps Ice Cold Water on ‘Left-Wing’ Media’s Handling of Trump Controversies: Right ‘So Much Better’ at ‘Milking a Scandal’

Mediaite founder Dan Abrams marveled at the “left-wing” media’s fumbling of numerous scandals involving President Donald Trump while arguing that “right-wing media” milks controversies for all they’re worth.

“Have you noticed how quickly Signalgate has faded from the news? It was a really big story for about a week. And then it just seemingly disappeared,” Abrams said on his SiriusXM show, which airs on the POTUS Channel. Had the same scandal occurred under former President Kamala Harris, Abrams argued, it would be an endless story on conservative media networks like Fox News and Newsmax.

“This would still be all over right-wing media, potentially for months, with investigations and demands, and it just makes you realize that they are so much better than the left at milking a scandal,” he said.

Abrams noted that scandals involving Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden are still hot topics in right-wing media circles, while Signalgate and its central figures like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz get a fraction of the attention.

He said:

They did it with President Biden for months, years, trying in any way possible to link him to his family’s shady business dealings. Last week on Fox News, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth got mentioned 30 times. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz got mentioned 24 times. Those were the two principal figures in the Signal Chat scandal. And when they were mentioned, it was usually in the context of other national security stories. And yet, Hunter Biden, in that same time period on Fox News, mentioned 60 times, about nine mentions a day. One mention every couple of hours, more than Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz combined.

Abrams then ran through a list of issues that would likely be bigger issues if a Democrat were president, including Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade advisor, being a convicted felon. Navarro was convicted in 2023 of contempt of Congress. He spent four months behind bars.

Abrams said:

We’ve heard a lot recently about Peter Navarro, right? White House senior counselor for trade manufacturing, but Peter Navarro is also a convicted felon. He served time in prison last year, convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena. Spent six months behind bars, regardless of what you think about his case, right? Imagine for just a moment if Barack Obama or Joe Biden came out with a hugely controversial policy. Let’s take Obamacare as an example. And let’s say the Obama White House’s public face of that policy, its chief proponent and chief salesman was a recently convicted felon. You would never hear the end of it on Fox News.

Other controversies Abrams noted included First Lady Melania Trump being paid millions for a documentary on Amazon, and Trump pardoning a major political donor, Travis Milton. Milton was sentenced to four years in prison in 2023 for defrauding investors. He and his wife were political donors to Trump’s presidential campaign.

“I’m not saying this in and of itself is the biggest deal, but I am saying imagine if the tables were turned,” Abrams said.

Abrams also brought up corruption charges being dropped against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, pointing to a joint Fox News interview with Adams and border czar Tom Homan where he said Homan “seemed to give away the game.”

“If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City and we won’t be sitting on a couch, I will be in his office, up his butt saying where the hell is the agreement we came to,” Homan said, referring to Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

Such a statement would have been a “massive scandal” under a Democratic president, Abrams argued, but left-wing media just doesn’t have the same follow through as its counterpart.

“Whatever you think of how bad or not these various issues are, one thing I can say for certain is if this was all happening under a Harris administration, the right-wing media would be covering it all nonstop for months, for years. They just know how to make this stuff stick on social media and beyond in ways that the left-wing media can’t or doesn’t,” he said.

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