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# ‘Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office’: CNN Technical Director Admits Network Is ‘Propaganda’ in New Project Veritas Video
- URL: https://goodoil.news/our-focus-was-to-get-trump-out-of-office-cnn-technical-director-admits-network-is-propaganda-in-new-project-veritas-video/
- Published: 2021-04-15T01:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-14T05:20:14.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: Media, Politics, USA Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

[rt.com](https://www.rt.com/usa/520945-project-veritas-cnn-video/?ref=goodoil.news)

An undercover video released by *Project Veritas* shows *CNN* technical director **Charlie Chester** revealing how the network purposefully painted Joe Biden in a positive light to get Donald Trump out of office.

In a conversation with a Project Veritas journalist, Chester can be seen on video admitting *CNN* worked to make Trump look *“unfit for office,”* while simultaneously portraying Biden as healthy to combat fears the 78-year-old was not up to holding the presidency.

*“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 says in the video.

He also detailed bringing in *“medical people”* to tell a story that was *“all speculation”* about Trump’s hand shaking.

*“We were creating a story there that we didn’t know anything about. That’s what – I think that’s propaganda,”* he said.

Chester revealed the opposite was done for Biden during the 2020 presidential race.

*“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,”* he said, saying the strategy was a *“deflection”* of his age and numerous public gaffes.

*CNN* ran numerous stories about Trump’s health during the presidential race, including one from Brian Stelter with a headline [reading](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/media/trumps-health-journalists/index.html?ref=goodoil.news): ‘It’s now up to journalists to get to the truth about Trump’s health’.

Another from outspoken Trump critic Jim Acosta in October [read](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/health/trump-health-walter-reed-doctors-briefing-bn/index.html?ref=goodoil.news): ‘Trump’s doctors paint a rosy – but vague – picture of his health during Covid-19 treatment’.

The CNN employee also claimed his network’s strategy as it moves away from Covid-19 coverage is to shift to a focus on climate change.

*“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,”* he said.

Chester added he doesn’t specifically know what that coverage looks like, but it will likely include fear-mongering videos of *“the effects it’s having on the economy,”* as well as *“decline in ice”* and *“weather warming.”*

Chester revealed the person deciding all of this slanted coverage is *CNN* head **Jeff Zucker**.

The network had not reacted to the video at the time of this article’s publication. However, a source close to *CNN* told Mediaite Chester was targeted through the dating app Tinder, which included the detail that he worked for the channel.

Critics of *CNN* have already capitalized on the undercover video, citing it as evidence of long-held beliefs that the network funnels stories to fit a specific political agenda.

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