On Thursday, ABC’s Good Morning America surprisingly devoted a nearly four-minute report to actual investigative journalism, examining corruption allegations against Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. At the top of the morning show, fill-in co-host David Muir promoted the upcoming story: “...the ABC news investigation into Biden’s son....Did Hunter Biden and his firm make millions overseas in countries where his father, the former vice president, acted as the top U.S. diplomat?”

In the 7:30 a.m. ET half hour, correspondent Tom Llamas pointed out: “This is actually an issue Joe Biden has been dealing with since 2014, but it’s come up again because he’s now running for president.” The reporter warned that “Republicans, including President Trump, are trying to hammer Biden over this,” and framed the story: “At issue, was Hunter Biden profiting off his dad’s work as vice president and did Joe Biden allow it?”

“In 2014, Ukrainians, sick of corruption, revolted. Vice President Joe Biden went to Kiev to help the new government,” Llamas explained. That was followed by a soundbite of Biden telling the Ukrainians: “You have to fight the cancer of corruption.” Llamas exposed the apparent hypocrisy of that statement: “Just three weeks later a Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma, accused of corruption, appoints Hunter Biden, seen here in their promotional videos, to their board of directors, paying his firm more than a million dollars a year.”

Not only did the report mention Hunter Biden’s suspicious foreign deal making, it also highlighted his past drug use: “Hunter, a lawyer, who had just been discharged from the Navy Reserves for testing positive for cocaine.”

Turning to Daria Kaleniuk of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Centre, Llamas asked: “How do you judge what Hunter Biden was doing?” Kaleniuk declared: “I think that Hunter Biden did a very bad thing and he was very wrong. He allowed his name to be abused.”

As if all that information wasn’t enough, Llamas went further:

And Ukraine wasn’t the only country where Hunter Biden’s business and his father’s diplomacy as vice president intersected. It also happened in China. This video shows Chinese diplomats greeting Vice President Biden as he arrived in Beijing in December of 2013....Less than two weeks later, Hunter’s firm had new business, creating an investment fund in China, involving the government-controlled Bank of China. With reports they hoped to raise $1.5 billion. Hunter still plays a role in the fund.

At the beginning and end of unusually critical piece about the Democratic frontrunner, Joe Biden was subjected to shouted questioning that the liberal media normally reserve for Republicans:

LLAMAS: Mr. Vice president, Tom Llamas with ABC News. How you doing? Got a quick question for you. It’s a question we tried to ask repeatedly. Can we ask you about Ukraine and China?! But kept getting blocked. (...) LLAMAS: One person who did not want to talk about it, Joe Biden. Mr. Vice president, what’s your take on that? Was there a conflict of interest there? Was there a clear conflict of interest?

ABC was actually late to the story. The New York Times published an expose on Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings back on May 1. However, ABC at least took the time to cover the unflattering news about the top Democrat. When will NBC and CBS discover the potential scandal?

Here is a full transcript of the June 20 report on ABC’s GMA: