ABC’s 75-Person Team Aimed to Destroy Trump

Adriana Stone 0 1 min read

ABC’s 75-Person Team Aimed to Destroy Trump

Billy Bush sat down with Sean Hannity and dropped a blunt claim. He said that after the 2016 election ABC News built an entire team aimed at President Donald Trump. Seventy-five people, he said, focused on finding ways to take him down.

That’s a big number. That’s a lot of manpower. And it explains a lot about how the narrative around Trump was constantly chased and amplified.

Bush knows the inside of broadcast news. He lived through the fallout from the Access Hollywood tape. He lost his job. His life changed. So when he talks about newsroom priorities, people listen.

This admission isn’t just gossip. It’s another confirmation that major outlets didn’t treat Trump like a normal political subject. They treated him like an enemy. Resources were poured into that fight. Stories were hunted. Angles were pushed.

People on the right have said this for years. Now someone who worked in the machine is saying it too. That matters. It doesn’t absolve Trump of anything. But it does show how tilted the media field has been.

And yet the result was clear. President Donald Trump survived the storms. He lost influence in some quarters, sure. But he came back. The 2024 outcome showed that heavy media effort doesn’t always translate to control at the ballot box.

Media outlets will call this unfair. They’ll say reporters were doing their jobs. But building a dedicated division with dozens of people to focus on one political figure looks a lot like targeting, not reporting.

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Call it biased. Call it passionate journalism. Either way, it shows how intense the fight over Trump has been. And it’s a reminder that the media’s power can shape stories — but it doesn’t always decide elections.

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