{"id":231731,"date":"2021-04-15T06:04:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231731"},"modified":"2021-04-17T05:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T05:40:18","slug":"part-1-cnn-director-admits-network-engaged-in-propaganda-to-remove-trump-from-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231731","title":{"rendered":"PART 1: CNN Director ADMITS Network Engaged in \u2018Propaganda\u2019 to Remove Trump from Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2018Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office\u2019 \u2026 \u2018I Came to CNN Because I Wanted to Be a Part of That\u2019<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Project Veritas \u2013 April 13, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester: \u201cLook what we did, we [CNN] got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that if it wasn&#8217;t for CNN, I don&#8217;t know that Trump would have got voted out\u2026I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that.\u201d<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chester: \u201c[Trump\u2019s] hand was shaking or whatever, I think. We brought in so many medical people to tell a story that was all speculation &#8212; that he was neurologically damaged, and he was losing it. He&#8217;s unfit to &#8212; you know, whatever. We were creating a story there that we didn&#8217;t know anything about. That&#8217;s what &#8212; I think that\u2019s propaganda.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chester: \u201cWe would always show shots of him [Biden] jogging and that [he\u2019s] healthy, you know, and him in aviator shades. Like you paint him as a young geriatric.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chester: \u201cI think there&#8217;s a COVID fatigue. So, like whenever a new story comes up, they&#8217;re [CNN\u2019s] going to latch onto it. They&#8217;ve already announced in our office that once the public is &#8212; will be open to it &#8212; we&#8217;re going to start focusing mainly on climate.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chester: \u201cIt&#8217;s going to be our [CNN\u2019s] focus. Like our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that&#8217;s what it was, right? So, our next thing is going to be for climate change awareness.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chester: \u201cIt [COVID] will taper off to a point that it&#8217;s not a problem anymore. Climate change can take years, so they&#8217;ll [CNN will] probably be able to milk that quite a bit\u2026Climate change is going to be the next COVID thing for CNN\u2026Fear sells.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[NEW YORK &#8212; Apr. 13, 2021] Project Veritas released a new video today exposing CNN Director Charlie Chester, who admitted that his network engaged in propaganda to benefit Biden\u2019s candidacy during the 2020 election to the detriment of then-President Trump. Chester also said CNN has a pre-determined agenda when reporting on COVID-19 and climate change.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eA5YDmoUc64\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>During a conversation with a Veritas journalist, Chester boasted about the impact the network had in determining the outcome of the presidential race last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook what we did, we [CNN] got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that if it wasn&#8217;t for CNN, I don&#8217;t know that Trump would have got voted out\u2026I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that,\u201d Chester revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Chester explained to the Veritas journalist how CNN engaged in \u201cpropaganda\u201d when covering Trump\u2019s health compared to Biden\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Trump\u2019s] hand was shaking or whatever, I think. We brought in so many medical people to tell a story that was all speculation &#8212; that he was neurologically damaged, and he was losing it. He&#8217;s unfit to &#8212; you know, whatever. We were creating a story there that we didn&#8217;t know anything about. That&#8217;s what &#8212; I think that\u2019s propaganda,\u201d Chester said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cI guess I have a confession. I worry about Biden and his health, I guess.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cYour news health?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c<em>What? No, I said Biden, our president.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cOh, his health.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cI want to take care of him and make sure he&#8217;s okay.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cHe is definitely &#8212; the whole thing of him running during the entire &#8212; like run for the campaign. Showing him jogging is obviously deflection of his age and they&#8217;re [CNN] trying to make it like, \u2018Oh, I&#8217;m healthy.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cIs that what we did? I don&#8217;t know. Like what do you mean?\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cWe would always show shots of him [Biden] jogging and that [he\u2019s] healthy, you know, and him in aviator shades. Like you paint him as a young geriatric.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chester went on to say that COVID-19 media coverage should be coming to an end in the near future. He added that CNN is already preparing its shift in coverage to push and promote climate change fear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there&#8217;s a COVID fatigue. So, like whenever a new story comes up, they&#8217;re [CNN\u2019s] going to latch onto it. They&#8217;ve already announced in our office that once the public is &#8212; will be open to it &#8212; we&#8217;re going to start focusing mainly on climate,\u201d Chester said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c<em>It&#8217;s going to be our [CNN\u2019s] focus. Like our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that&#8217;s what it was, right? So, our next thing is going to be climate change awareness.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cWhat does that look like?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cI don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m not sure. I have a feeling that it\u2019s going to be like, constantly showing videos of decline in ice, and weather warming up, and like the effects it\u2019s having on the economy&#8211;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cWho decides that?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cHead of the network.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u201cWho is that? Is that [Jeff] Zucker?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u201cZucker, yeah. I imagine that he&#8217;s got his council and they&#8217;ve all like, discussed, like where they think&#8211;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cSo, that&#8217;s like the next&#8211;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u201cPandemic-like story that we\u2019ll beat to death, but that one&#8217;s got longevity. You know what I mean? Like there&#8217;s a definitive ending to the pandemic. It&#8217;ll taper off to a point that it&#8217;s not a problem anymore. Climate change can take years, so they&#8217;ll [CNN will] probably be able to milk that quite a bit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u201cSo, climate change overload.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u201cBe prepared, it&#8217;s coming.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Climate change is going to be the next COVID thing for CNN.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veritas Journalist:\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u201cYou think it&#8217;s going to be just like &#8212; a lot of like, fear for the climate?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chester:\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u201cYeah. Fear sells.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About Project Veritas<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>James O&#8217;Keefe established Project Veritas in 2011 as a non-profit journalism enterprise to continue his undercover reporting work. Today, Project Veritas investigates and exposes corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions to achieve a more ethical and transparent society. O&#8217;Keefe serves as the CEO and Chairman of the Board so that he can continue to lead and teach his fellow journalists, as well as protect and nurture the Project Veritas culture.<\/p>\n<p>Project Veritas is a registered 501(c)3 organization. Project Veritas does not advocate specific resolutions to the issues raised through its investigations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectveritas.com\/donate\/\">Donate NOW to support our mission. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office\u2019 \u2026 \u2018I Came to CNN Because I Wanted to Be a Part of That\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":231727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231732,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231731\/revisions\/231732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}