Any CBS ‘Pro Trump Bias’ Claims Debunked in One Awkward Broadcast

The warnings that CBS News was about to become a Trump propaganda outlet have run into a very awkward piece of evidence: the network’s own reporting. On October 25, 60 Minutes aired a deportation story that left out an asylum claim DHS had flagged weeks earlier. According to the New York Post, producers agreed with the migrant’s lawyer to keep that information off the air. Bari Weiss and program boss Nick Bilton reportedly weren’t told. That’s a curious result after weeks of warnings that David Ellison and Weiss, founder of the Free Press, would turn the network into friendly territory for the Trump administration. The segment featured Moussa Diawara, a Malian national described as a married father of two who had converted to Christianity. A judge had previously ruled that he couldn’t be returned to Mali. Those details gave viewers ample reason to sympathize with him. They didn’t hear that his 2012 asylum application claimed he was gay and would face persecution because of it. DHS had brought the apparent contradiction to producers’ attention. That doesn’t establish fraud, but it gave the program a claim to examine rather than quietly omit. The New York Post reported that producers...