Í dag birti Project Veritas fyrsta hlutan af upptökum af tæknistjóra CNN Charlie Chester þar sem hann segir að sjónvarpstöðin hafi komið Trump úr embætti og að hann væri líklega ennþá forseti ef það væri ekki fyrir áróður CNN.
“Sjáðu hvað við gerðum, við [CNN] komum Trump út. Ég ætla 100% að segja það, og ég trúi því 100% að ef það væri ekki fyrir CNN, veit ég ekki hvort Trump hefði verið kosin út…ég kom til CNN því ég vildi taka þátt í því´´
“Look what we did, we [CNN] got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that if it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that Trump would have got voted out…I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that.”
Project Veritas eru óhagnaðardrifin samtök stofnuð af James O´Keefe og eru þekkt fyrir að birta leynilegar upptökur og myndbönd til að koma upp um spillingu, oftast hjá ýmsum vinstri sinnuðum samtökum, fyrirtækjum og pólítíkusum.
Upptökurnar sem um ræðir virðast eiga sér stað á veitingahúsi og eru samræðurnar teknar upp án vitundar Charlie Chester.
Trump sagði ítrekað í forsetatíð sinni og sem frambjóðandi að fjölmiðlar væru gagngert að dreifa falsfréttum um sig og vera með neikvæða pressu gegn honum til að skaða hann sem stjórnmálamann.
Upptökurnar sem Project Veritas birti í dag staðfesta þessar fullyrðingar Trumps þar sem starfsmaður CNN viðurkennir það blákalt að stöðin beitti áróðri sem skaðaði Trump en hjálpaði Biden. Minnist hann sérstaklega á hvernig stöðin sagði mismunandi frá heilsufari Trump og Biden, þar sem að smá skjálfti á hendi Trumps leiddi til mikilla vangaveltna á stöðinni um heilsufar þáverandi forseta og hæfni hans til að gegna embættinu. Hinsvegar sýndu þeir ítrekað myndir af Biden að skokka til að sýna hvað hann væri heilsuhraustur.
Einnig sagði Charlie að stöðin hefði fyrirfram ákveðna áætlun hvað varðar fréttflutning á kóvid veirunni og loftslagsbreytingum. Nefndi hann að eftir kóvid yrðu loftslagsbreytingar næsta aðalmálið á dagskrá sem sé málefni sem hægt sé að mjólka þar sem loftslagsbreytingar tækju mörg ár og að ´fear sells´ eða hræðslan selur þegar að kemur að málum eins og kóvid og loftslagsbreytingum.
Bútar úr upptökunni.
CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester: “Look what we did, we [CNN] got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that if it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that Trump would have got voted out…I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that.”
Chester: “[Trump’s] hand was shaking or whatever, I think. We brought in so many medical people to tell a story that was all speculation — that he was neurologically damaged, and he was losing it. He’s unfit to — you know, whatever. We were creating a story there that we didn’t know anything about. That’s what — I think that’s propaganda.”
Chester: “We would always show shots of him [Biden] jogging and that [he’s] healthy, you know, and him in aviator shades. Like you paint him as a young geriatric.”
Chester: “I think there’s a COVID fatigue. So, like whenever a new story comes up, they’re [CNN’s] going to latch onto it. They’ve already announced in our office that once the public is — will be open to it — we’re going to start focusing mainly on climate.”
Chester: “It’s going to be our [CNN’s] focus. Like our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that’s what it was, right? So, our next thing is going to be for climate change awareness.”
Chester: “It [COVID] will taper off to a point that it’s not a problem anymore. Climate change can take years, so they’ll [CNN will] probably be able to milk that quite a bit…Climate change is going to be the next COVID thing for CNN…Fear sells.”
Veritas Journalist: “I guess I have a confession. I worry about Biden and his health, I guess.”
CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester: “Your news health?”
Veritas Journalist: “What? No, I said Biden, our president.”
Chester: “Oh, his health.”
Veritas Journalist: “I want to take care of him and make sure he’s okay.”
Chester: “He is definitely — the whole thing of him running during the entire — like run for the campaign. Showing him jogging is obviously deflection of his age and they’re [CNN] trying to make it like, ‘Oh, I’m healthy.’”
Veritas Journalist: “Is that what we did? I don’t know. Like what do you mean?”
Chester: “We would always show shots of him [Biden] jogging and that [he’s] healthy, you know, and him in aviator shades. Like you paint him as a young geriatric.”
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.
“I think there’s a COVID fatigue. So, like whenever a new story comes up, they’re [CNN’s] going to latch onto it. They’ve already announced in our office that once the public is — will be open to it — we’re going to start focusing mainly on climate,” Chester said.
Chester: “It’s going to be our [CNN’s] focus. Like our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that’s what it was, right? So, our next thing is going to be climate change awareness.”
Veritas Journalist: “What does that look like?”
Chester: “I don’t know. I’m not sure. I have a feeling that it’s going to be like, constantly showing videos of decline in ice, and weather warming up, and like the effects it’s having on the economy–”
Veritas Journalist: “Who decides that?”
Chester: “Head of the network.”
Veritas Journalist: “Who is that? Is that [Jeff] Zucker?”
Chester: “Zucker, yeah. I imagine that he’s got his council and they’ve all like, discussed, like where they think–”
Veritas Journalist: “So, that’s like the next–”
Chester: “Pandemic-like story that we’ll beat to death, but that one’s got longevity. You know what I mean? Like there’s a definitive ending to the pandemic. It’ll taper off to a point that it’s not a problem anymore. Climate change can take years, so they’ll [CNN will] probably be able to milk that quite a bit.”
Veritas Journalist: “So, climate change overload.”
Chester: “Be prepared, it’s coming. Climate change is going to be the next COVID thing for CNN.”
Veritas Journalist: “You think it’s going to be just like — a lot of like, fear for the climate?”
Chester: “Yeah. Fear sells.”
Hægt er að sjá upptökuna og nánar um málið á heimasíðu project veritas og youtube rásinni þeirra.
