Project Veritas has released over 200 hours of undercover recordings made by a whistleblower that captured CNN employees chatting about the network’s anti-Trump bias.
The video features Cary Poarch who identified himself as a satellite uplink technician at CNN’s Washington Bureau whose “dream job” turned into a nightmare.
According to James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, Poarch recorded several conference calls in which CNN’s President Jeff Zucker insisted his people keep “hammering Trump” and “Republicans in general”.
Zucker can also be heard telling his staff to “knock it off” being friendly with Sen. Lindsey Graham (Rep-SC) and encouraging his on-air personalities to attack Fox News.
Poarch said he wore a hidden camera to record Zucker’s 9 a.m. rundown conference call because he was tired of the network “pumping out propaganda.” He said, “It’s basically me wanting the news to be what they used to be — news — and not infotainment or a game show or chasing the ratings.… CNN purports it to be facts first and that’s clearly not the case.”
CNN media coordinator Nick Neville was caught in a secret recording in which he said Zucker “has a personal vendetta against Trump… it’s not gonna be positive for Trump. [Zucker] hates him. He’s going to be negative.”
Another CNN employee, identified as media coordinator Christian Sierra, can be heard saying, “Everyone at the network complains about the anti-Trump tone … They hate covering Trump all day.”
Zucker is well documented with hating President Trump but he apparently also believes greasing the wheels of Trump Derangement Syndrome is also good for his company’s bottom line.
A man identified as CNN floor coordinator Hiram Gonzalez referred to the network’s role in promoting Mr. Trump in the 2016 presidential campaign as “juicing” the network’s flagging ratings in the last election cycle.
“Between you and I, we created this monster and now we’re eating him full plate every single day,” Mr. Gonzalez said. “Media created the Trump monster.
Zucker doesn’t deny the network’s strange relationship with Donald Trump. He told Vanity Fair in 2008 that Trump drives ratings and when CNN backs off on covering him, “the audience goes away.”
But Neville said CNN journalist and the rest of the network is in a tug of war over the constant drumbeat of Trump. He said, “There’s a lot of people out here just trying to do what they think is the best of journalistic integrity. Then you get on the 9 a.m. call and big boss Jeff Zucker f–in tells you what to do.”
Apparently, many of CNN’s mid and lower-level employees feel the same way. Poarch says that not everyone who works at CNN subscribes to the “groupthink.”
At first the former CNN employee believed “everyone was on board the ‘I hate Trump Train” but came to realize that sentiment was a “top-down thing.”
Responding to the relation, President Trump tweeted: “Now that we have found out that @CNN is a virtual fraud, rumor has it that Jeff Zucker will be resigning momentarily.”
No one has to guess anymore who the number one source of fake news is. That award goes to CNN.
