President Joe Biden demanded the 56 U.S. attorneys appointed by his predecessor step down Tuesday as the Senate impeachment trial got underway on its first day.
CNN broke the scoop with the mundane headline, “DOJ asks Trump-appointed attorneys to resign,” four years after the network led the charge vilifying Trump for making the same, routine request at the start of his first term in office.
“Anger mounts over handling of US attorney firings,” CNN reported in March 2017 when then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked the Justice Department’s 46 U.S. attorneys to resign.
Biden’s resignation request, CNN reported Tuesday, applies to all U.S. attorneys appointed by President Donald Trump, except for the U.S. attorney in Delaware overseeing an investigation into his son, Hunter.
Contrasting the coverage of Biden’s widespread dismissal of department lawyers offers yet another case study in the Trump-era media bias that has exposed itself time and time again as the new administration takes shape. While the Biden request went largely unnoticed, overshadowed by a pointless impeachment trial, it seemed the world was ending four years ago when Trump did it.
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