The crime is only serious if it can make Republicans look bad.
Sexual abuse of minors is a serious crime. But when it comes to the national media, the crime is only serious if it can make Republicans look bad. Recently, Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center found that ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 1,627 minutes of airtime on their morning, evening and Sunday shows over the last year to the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, which was overwhelmingly concentrated on Donald Trump.
On July 2, The New York Times reported on the front page that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and two other officials pardoned Tou Lue Vang — a man convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl — so he could avoid deportation by the Trump administration. Vang’s original order of removal came in 2006.
Where were ABC, CBS and NBC on this scandal? We couldn’t find any broadcast coverage. PBS and NPR didn’t show up on this story, either. Walz was almost vice president, and they still couldn’t find it.
They skipped it again on July 10, when ICE deported Vang, about 20 years too late. Laos was not accepting the return of Laotians back in the George W. Bush era, but they are now.
Walz only came up on MS NOW in recounting the ICE shootings in Minnesota earlier in the year. On CNN, we could only find one mention of Walz’s pardon, on Abby Phillip’s “NewsNight” show, when former Trump press aide Caroline Sunshine briefly brought it up on July 10, but Phillip smothered it down, asking what that had to do with the man shot in Houston by ICE, who had no criminal record.
Three nights later, Phillip was more interested in discussing “far-right” people who were supposed to seek a pardon for the rapper named “Boosie Badazz.” --->READ MORE HERE
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Rubio terminated Tou Lue Vang's legal status after Minnesota's Board of Pardons granted clemency despite his rape conviction
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz publicly defended his vote to pardon a Laotian national who had been under a final removal order after losing legal status following a child sex crime conviction of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a 10-year-old girl after the Trump administration deported him to Laos last week.
Tou Lue Vang, 42, received a pardon from Minnesota's Board of Pardons on June 10. On Friday, the Trump administration announced Vang's legal status had been revoked and that he had been deported to his home country of Laos.
Asked about the deportation, Walz questioned what the move accomplished.
"Did that make us any safer?" Walz said Tuesday, according to KTTC. "Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable?
"Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?"
"And I want to be very clear," Walz continued. "These are horrific crimes. They often are."
Walz also said Vang's pardon was not about immigration policy, noting that the Board of Pardons had denied clemency to other applicants facing immigration-related consequences.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Vang's deportation Friday, telling Fox News Digital, "Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign sex predators — shielded from deportation by their own elected officials — could endanger them or their children. --->READ MORE HERE
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