CNN is pushing bogus Trump-Russia ruse for ratings: ‘It’s mostly bulls**t,’ says CNN producer

cnn producer John Bonifield says cnn pushes trump russia collusion for ratings american pravda

CNN is aggressively pushing the bogus Trump-Russia hoax because the fake story line is a ratings cash cow for the flailing cable news network. That’s what veteran CNN producer John Bonifield admitted on camera to James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas in a shocking video entitled “American Pravda.”

CNN Producer: ‘Trump Is Good for Business!’

Bonifield  —who has worked at CNN for 15 years — said the network’s anti-Trump CEO, Jeff Zucker, has been relentlessly pushing the fake Trump-Russia narrative for ratings even though there’s NO PROOF.

“Our ratings are incredible right now!” Bonifield said. “Trump is good for business.” CNN’s ratings lag far behind those of its cable news rivals Fox News and MSNBC. CNN struggles to get even a million viewers a night for its marquee prime-time star, Anderson Cooper.

‘CNN’s Gotta Do What They Gotta Do to Make Money’

In contrast, Fox News has easily quadrupled that for the past 20 years. Bonifield said CNN is gleefully breaking journalistic ethics in a bid for ratings, and is intentionally lying to its viewers to rake in cash:

It’s a business. All the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you’re just like, ‘That’s adorable. That’s adorable.’ This is a business, especially cable news.

Cable news isn’t the New York Times, and it’s not even like NBC News. NBC News still gets 20 million viewers a night. Cable news is getting a million. So, they [CNN] gotta do what they gotta to make their money.

CNN Producer: ‘Russia Collusion Is Mostly BS’

John Bonifield said President Trump is correct to call CNN’s pursuit of the Trump-Russia hoax a “witch hunt” because there’s no proof. Moreover, he says everyone at CNN knows it, but is forced to push the fake news story under pressure from CEO Jeff Zucker.

Besides, Bonifield said if there had been any real evidence to support the Trump-Russia hoax, it would have leaked by now. “I haven’t seen any good evidence to show the president committed a crime,” he said, adding:

It’s mostly bullsh*t right now. Like, we don’t have any giant proof. The way these leaks happen, they would have leaked it. If it was something really good, it would leak. So, I just feel like they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging.

So I think the president is probably right to say, ‘Look you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun. You have no real proof.’

CNN: We Would Never Have Treated Obama Like This

Bonifield also admitted that CNN is intentionally undermining and discrediting a sitting U.S. president for ratings, and it would never have treated Barack Obama this way because viewers would have been furious:

“There’s a lot of like liberal CNN viewers who want to see Trump really get scrutinized.

If we would have behaved that way with President Obama and scrutinized everything that he was doing with as much scrutiny as we apply to Donald Trump, I think our viewers would have been turned off. I think they would have felt like we were attacking him.”

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe first broke the news of these shocking treasonous revelations on Twitter:

The “American Pravda” video was released just hours after three CNN reporters — Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau and Lex Harris — were fired after falsely linking former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci to the Russia investigations.

The CNN reporters recklessly ran with the story despite getting confirmation from only one anonymous source whose claims turned out to be false.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/879648931172556802

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/879678356450676736

Earlier this month, CNN was caught on video staging a phony protest a day after the London Bridge terrorist attacks in order to push its pro-Muslim agenda.

All these damaging revelations come at a time when the public says it has little trust in mainstream media. A recent poll showed that 94% of the American public do not trust the media. And CNN’s fake news brigade is part of the reason why.

CNN deletes “Muslim” in story about Muslim extremists training kids to commit school shootings

DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW

Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!

Success! Thank you for donating. Please share BPR content to help combat the lies.
Samantha Chang

Comment

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

BPR INSIDER COMMENTS

Scroll down for non-member comments or join our insider conversations by becoming a member. We'd love to have you!

Latest Articles