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Wednesday was the first day of Democratic Senator Bob Menendez’s federal trial for bribery, but you would barely know it was occurring if you were only getting your news from the liberal Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC). CBS News did briefly mention the trial in the morning, but they failed to follow up on the heated courtroom exchanges during CBS Evening News later in the day. Meanwhile, both ABC and NBC continued their complete and utter blackout of the story.
Fox News Correspondent David Lee Miller was on Special Report where he reported that Menendez “faces a dozen criminal charges, accused of accepting more than $700,000 in campaign related cash and thousands of dollars in free hotel rooms and air travel from a longtime friend, Doctor Solomon Melgen.”
There were flare-ups between Menendez’s attorney and the federal judge that went unreported by the Big Three Networks because of their blackout. “In a testy exchange, Menendez's attorney accused the judge of disparaging the defense in his written opinion,” noted Miller. “At one point the judge told Menendez's lawyer, quote: ‘Shut up for a moment if you don't mind.’”
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