In recent weeks, CNN has been caught staging a “Muslims Against ISIS” “protest” following the terrorist attack in London, insinuated that Republicans are royal jerks by reporting that only Democrats prayed for House Majority Whip Steve Scalise prior to the Congressional Baseball Game. Those paying attention to CNN would have thought that Republicans would not join them in praying for their fellow Republican who was still in ICU at the time after being shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Recently, things got even worse for CNN when they had to completely retract an anti-Trump story when it was revealed to be completely bogus. It turns out, CNN ran with the story even though they only had one anonymous source. In the fallout, CNN changed their editorial process for any stories dealing with Trump and Russia to requiring them all to be cleared by certain execs and three people “resigned,” i.e. were fired.
If CNN thought that was the worst of it, they were wrong.
On Monday night, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a video in which a CNN executive admitted the Trump/Russia narrative was fake news but they push it anyway for ratings.
CNN supervising producer John Bonifield, who has worked for the cable news network for 15 years, tells the Project Veritas (O’Keefe’s organization) undercover journalist that he agrees the Trump-Russia collusion story is “bullsh*t” but since CNN is a business interested in profits, rather than accurate reporting, they push the phony narrative because that’s what their mostly liberal audience wants to hear.
Moreover, Bonifield admits that the network would never have gotten away with treating Obama the way they do Trump — that their audience would have considered such biased reporting an attack against Obama and would never have accepted it.
And that leads me to Trump’s tweet storm on Monday evening and Tuesday morning which included a change to CNN’s logo to FNN…Fake News Network.
Wow, CNN had to retract big story on "Russia," with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
Trump retweeted it.
— Jeff (@JeffTutorials) June 26, 2017
Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC? What about the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost? They are all Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
CNN, which has been caught deceptively editing videos on numerous occasions. These fake news stories is just adding to their reputation as the least trusted name in news.
