A CNN staffer can be seen in a newly released undercover video calling out his own network for “propaganda” and boasting that the cable news giant successfully removed former President Donald Trump from office.
“Look at what we did, we got Trump out,” Charles Chester, a network technical director at CNN, said to an undercover journalist from the political action group Project Veritas in a tape released Tuesday. “I am 100% going to say it. And I 100% believe it that if it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that Trump would have got voted out.”
BREAKING: Part 1 – @CNN Director ADMITS Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’ to Remove Trump from Presidency … ‘Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office’ … ‘I Came to CNN Because I Wanted to Be a Part of That’
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— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 13, 2021
Chester spoke to the undercover reporter in several clips in which he bragged that he was “one step down” from a director and admitted that the network pushed a story it “didn’t know anything about” relating to Trump’s physical health in order to damage him.
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“Trump was, I don’t know, like, shaking his hand or whatever … We brought in, like, so many medical people to like all tell a story that, like, it was all speculation that he was, like, neurologically damaged, that he was losing it, he’s unfit to, you know, whatever,” Chester said. “We were creating a story that we didn’t know anything about.”
Chester added that the network did what it could to paint President Joe Biden as young and healthy to combat criticisms of his old age and possibly declining mental facilities.
“We would always show shots of him jogging … him in his aviator shades, and, like, you paint him as a young geriatric,” Chester said.
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Chester’s online profile on LinkedIn, which has been taken down, said his work “played an integral part” in the 2020 presidential election.
Prior to his @LinkedIn being DELETED, @CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester’s job description read “played an integral part in the 2020 Presidential elections.” pic.twitter.com/kTwabu50xy
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 13, 2021
Chester also admitted that CNN was engaged in propaganda in the way it has been criticizing firebrand Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, who faces allegations of sexual impropriety with a 17-year-old, allegations he has vehemently denied.
“If the agenda, say, is to get Matt Gaetz right now, he’s, like, this Republican,” Chester said in response to a question from the undercover journalist on how he defines propaganda. “He’s a problem for the Democratic Party … So we’re going to keep running these stories to keep hurting him. That’s propaganda because it’s helping CNN in some way.”
Gaetz responded to the news on Twitter simply saying, “OMG!”
OMG!!!!!! https://t.co/QJJODhQcMW
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) April 13, 2021
Now that Trump has been removed from office, Chester says the network will move on to pushing climate change and asked if that meant the network would try to scare viewers with gloomy climate warnings, Chester said, “Yeah. Fear sells.”
CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner regarding the controversy or Chester’s current status with the network.
