Not long after they had insisted President Trump treated the coronavirus press briefings as though they were “a reality TV show,” ABC and chief anchor George Stephanopoulos invited former Vice President Joe Biden onto This Week to buoy his oxygen-less campaign. One of the softballs the Clinton lackey tossed to Biden encouraged him to blame Trump for the deaths caused by the coronavirus.

While the crisis was only part of their discussion, Stephanopoulos steered clear of the recent sexual assault allegations against his guest. Something he was used to doing from his time in the Clinton White House.

On the topic of the virus, he cited Biden’s campaign videos to tee him up to blame Trump for the deaths of thousands of Americans. “And your campaign videos have been quite tough on the President. You said his failures, his incompetence is going to cost lives, is that what's happening now,” he asked.

“Well look, what I have been saying is that he's moving too slow, the corona—the virus is not his fault. There’s— But the response is his responsibility,” Biden clumsily explained. Though Biden didn’t take the bait completely, he did parrot ABC’s lie that Trump was blocking those who lost their job due to the crisis from enrolling in ObamaCare.

Two of Stephanopoulos’s other coronavirus questions set up Biden to slam Trump’s concerns for the economy and concerns about instructing the public to wear masks, despite debate it could take masks from health care workers:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: The President has said many times now he's worried about the cure is going to be worse than the disease, does that concern you at all and isn't there a point there that if this lockdown goes on for too long the public health concerns could be grave? (…) STEPHANOPOULOS: And we’ve seen the new guidelines from the CDC saying that they believe the public should wear masks in public. President Trump said he's not going to do it, he doesn’t want to do it, but several other leading politicians are. When you go out in public going forward, will you be wearing a mask?

Towards the end of the interview, the ABC host did throw in some questions about the 2020 Democratic primary, what Biden thought about people gathering at polls and conventions, and his process for picking a vice-presidential candidate.

What was conspicuously absent was any question about the sexual assault claim made by his former Senate staffer, Tara Reade. Biden himself had said every accuser had to be believed and ABC had given plenty of airtime to bogus allegations made against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Yet, this time they didn’t want to talk about any of it.

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