Former "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush made a bombshell claim this past week that hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. He claimed that ABC News had an entire division dedicated to targeting Donald Trump back during the 2016 election.
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"I know the guy who ran the division."@sagesteele: "Jeez!"
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"ABC News had a division. They had a division dedicated, with 75 people in it, because I knew the guy who ran the division, which was dedicated to basically getting him," Bush said on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast.
I think we take it as a given that the liberal media is the liberal media, and will be inherently unfair because of their orientation to support the Democrats. The "objective media" hasn't been objective in some time. But this claim â that there was actually a division devoted to the targeting â takes it to another level.
Bush didn't offer up more as to who was involved.
When asked for comment, Bush declined to identify who allegedly ran the alleged anti-Trump division at ABC News but suggested the person no longer works at the network. ABC News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
So who was in that division, if this is true, and are they, in fact, still there?
But even ABC's more recent history in terms of its coverage of Trump and his team shows there are issues.
In December 2024, just weeks before Trump was sworn into office for his second term, ABC News paid a $16 million settlement to Trump after he filed a defamation lawsuit earlier in the year for comments made by "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos. [....]
Last year, longtime ABC News correspondent Terry Moran was fired for attacking Trump and White House aide Stephen Miller on social media.
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How about we talk about the recent comments over this past week from ABC, again featuring George Stephanopoulos, pertaining to Trump signing an executive order regarding mail-in voting. Stephanopoulos declared, as a matter of fact, that Trump was trying to âsubvertâ the midterm elections.
George Stephanopoulos declares as a matter of fact that Trump is trying to âsubvertâ the midterm elections.
â Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 5, 2026
Very subtle stuff, ABC News. pic.twitter.com/aCLQd0HLg9
President Trump signing an executive order to limit mail-in voting, his latest move to subvert the midterms, sow doubt about the results, as his party faces political headwinds.
That's not objective reporting, that's pumping the Democratic narrative. The actual purpose is to do more to secure the election, but that purpose is turned on its head in that description.
Newsbusters also found another example, where, introducing a similar segment on "Good Morning America," Stephanopoulos spoke about Trump's "attempts to interfere in the midterm elections."
IRONY ALERT: ABCâs George Stephanopoulos and Mary Bruce argue President Trumpâs executive order on voter integrity is a new chapter in âPresident Trumpâs attempts to interfere with the midterm elections,â âsow distrust,â and âundermine confidence in the nationâs electionsâ pic.twitter.com/Q3bPGjOmIZ
â Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 1, 2026
"And we're going to get the latest now on President Trump's attempts to interfere with the midterm elections," Stephanopoulos. How is that objective?
Then the correspondent Mary Bruce replies, "This is just the latest in a series of actions taken by the president to undermine confidence in the nation's elections ahead of the midterms." She goes on to say Trump wants to "sow distrust." She even slips in an attack on the Save America Act, getting the name wrong and calling it the Save Act. She, of course, did not report on the Act's broad popularity or how the American people are overwhelmingly supportive of voter ID in general.
We're used to seeing media bias from the legacy media, but this is bad, even by those standards. They should be embarrassed by this. It needs to be called out loudly, and maybe the Trump team needs to make some serious points about the concept of objective reporting, because I don't think ABC is getting it, if these examples are any indication.






