On Wednesday, the political day began with James Comer and the Republicans on House Oversight displaying bank records that show Joe Biden at the very least used his vice presidency to accept at least $10 million dollars from foreign entities and/or governments, funneling it through any number of shell corporations with no discernible goods or services offered in return for all the largesse, other than access and influence.

You’d think that any normal democratic media, even one that had a predisposition to favor and look out for their preferred political party, would look at naked influence peddling on a grand scale as being somewhat of a problem, certainly a story to cover. That’s not the regime media we have covering American politics in the United States. In case you missed it, here’s the pith of the gist from House Oversight’s press conference.

My personal favorite from the presser this morning was the fact that Joe Biden took a million dollars from a corrupt Romanian official under investigation by giving a speech as vice president, legitimizing the corrupt Romanian official under investigation.

What was in the speech Biden gave as vice president while on the take from a corrupt Romanian politician? Why, one that talked about how great it was that Romanians had overcome corruption, and that corruption was a cancer that eats away at citizens’ faith in democracies.

The hubris wrapped in a tortilla of hypocrisy grilled within a chalupa of contempt for actual corruption-free democracy is jaw-dropping. And it’s something you’d never, ever see from a Republican. Why? One simple reason. The regime media would never let a Republican get away with it, nor should they.

Richard Nixon was paranoid, so much so that it led to his political downfall because he crossed the line on reelection campaign activities and trying to cover it all up. Did anyone ever claim that Nixon was on the take from the Communist Chinese? Did Nixon ever give a speech that was implicitly tied to selling his office’s prestige for cash? Nope. Yet the media literally picked away at the story until the presidency came apart at the seams. Reagan had media dog him forever over Iran Contra. George W. Bush was hounded by media over his reaction or non-reaction to Hurricane Katrina, and for how badly the Iraq War was going at the time. Donald Trump was the victim of a Russia collusion story entirely fabricated by Democratic operatives within Hillary Clinton’s campaign and U.S. government career lefty staffers, one that was implanted into the press. The press wanted believed it because they wanted it to be true, and harassed the president daily about it for years.

Joe Biden has been caught at the very least of personally enriching himself and his family members by using the office the American people entrusted him with, and putting those personal financial interests above those of the interests of the United States. That’s about as corrupt of a thing as you can say about any American politician. Outside of Fox News and a few conservative outlets, the story was totally ignored by regime media. Instead, literally while the press conference was going on, GOP freshman and backbencher, George Santos, was indicted and arrested for being a fraud and a dufus. Republicans know he’s a fraud and a dufus, and virtually anyone following politics knows he’s a fraud and a dufus. He’s persona non grata with much of the GOP caucus, and there’s already maneuvering underway to primary him at the first opportunity next year. But regime media took the squirrel offered to them by the DOJ gladly and covered that extensively so they wouldn’t have to report that Joe Biden is apparently the head of an international crime family.

As Wednesday played out, with lots of calls from voices on the right wondering what a Democrats has to commit in order for our fourth estate to actually report on it, whataboutism comparisons began popping up. I mean, it’s not hard to imagine what media would have done if the subject of a story about profiting millions off of influence peddling of a political office had been Donald J. Trump. Why, we don’t have to imagine very much at all. It would resemble how Beltway media viewed the town hall on CNN last night.

First, the usual disclaimer. I voted for Trump twice. I am not a fan of post-2020 election Trump. I am in GOP primary Switzerland until a nominee is chosen. After that, I’m all-in for the GOP nominee, regardless of their perceived electability, because the thought of an aging, senile, pervy crook stumbling through another incompetent and corrupt four years is too unappetizing to bear.

What we got Wednesday night was a glimpse of what a second Trump presidency would be – every word of Trump put through a fact-checking microscope with a hostile regime media. And if that standard of challenging the president fiercely on everything were actually a standard that applied across party lines, I’d be perfectly fine with that. I could adjust to that. It would be an insufferable daily soap opera of open hatred between media and Trump, but we’d at least have a standard. That’s not what we have now, and Trump’s town hall put that into focus.

Donald Trump, love him or hate him, went into the lion’s den, and brought receipts. I don’t agree with all of his policy proposals, and I really don’t like trying to fight the last election ad nauseum. But the one thing you can say about Trump is he was sharp. He was engaged. He knew the issues of which he spoke. He didn’t wilt under cross-examination. Can you say honestly the same would have happened if Biden had to run a gauntlet with that hostile of a press? Of course not. Biden would never be allowed into a position where he faced a hostile media, even if one existed in Washington, which doesn’t. He would break down on live TV, exposing his administration as a Being There-Chauncey Gardner presidency. He’s just not sharp enough mentally to think quick on his feet. Trump still can.

The ferocity of anti-Trump sentiment from within the media establishment is only going to grow over time. There is no pretense of objectivity anymore, and those that try to maintain that there is in media are viewed as fools by most Americans. After the editorial decision to ignore the Biden corruption news, and then the angst and fallout all over as the reverberation from Trump’s town hall last night continues, you simply cannot claim that media is just trying to get to the truth with no favoritism being shown. That’s a premise about as believable as Joe Biden’s claim he never talked business with Hunter Biden, or that he had no knowledge whatsoever about all this money that flowed into Biden Inc. shell companies coming from every international shadowy figure possible that he coincidentally either met at the White House or gave a speech praising.

The sad reality is of all of Biden’s ‘clients’ he sold his office’s credibility and legitimacy to, the most upstanding of them might turn out to be the Chinese Communist Party.