Americans had no idea how far CNN president Jeff Zucker was willing to go to defeat Donald Trump.
CNN’s partisan bias was worse than anyone knew.
And this text message about Donald Trump is the smoking gun that will bury CNN.
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic Donald Trump told reporters he was considering a military quarantine of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
“There’s a possibility that sometime today, we’ll do a quarantine — short-term, two weeks — of New York, probably New Jersey, and certain parts of Connecticut,” Trump told reporters. “This would be an enforceable quarantine. You know, I’d rather not do it, but we may need it.”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo initially offered a ho-hum response of “from a medical point of view, I don’t know what you’d be accomplishing” during his daily press briefing.
However, later on Governor Cuomo appeared on CNN and blasted the idea of using the military to cordon off the Tri-state area.
“I think it would paralyze the economy,” Governor Cuomo responded, “I think it would shock the economic markets in a way we’ve never seen before.”
CNN anchor Ana Cabrera responded by teeing up Cuomo with a question about the effect a military quarantine would have on the stock market.
“What would this mean for the stock market? Would it have to shut down?” Cabrera asked.
As if on cue, Cuomo responded in apocalyptic terms.
“Oh, it would drop like a stone,” Cuomo stated. “That would drop this economy in a way that wouldn’t recover for months, if not years.”
If the whole scene seemed staged, it’s because it likely was.
The Daily Beast published text messages from disgraced ex-CNN president Jeff Zucker’s lover Allison Gollust and Cuomo where Gollust and Cuomo allegedly scripted Cuomo’s appearance on CNN with Zucker’s approval.
After the interview, Gollust, who briefly worked as Governor Cuomo’s communications director in 2012 and 2013, celebrated the interview as a win for Cuomo and a loss for Trump.
Rolling Stone reported:
What viewers did not know is that in the hours between Cuomo’s Albany press conference and his CNN dinner-hour appearance, he corresponded directly with CNN leadership. Firing off a text to the network’s top marketing and communications executive, Allison Gollust — who had also been his own publicist a few years prior — Cuomo wrote, in an apparent reference to CNN President Jeff Zucker, “Ask Jeff to call me plz.” Zucker’s representatives say he has “no record” of speaking to Cuomo that day. Regardless, Cuomo landed on a talking point sure to grab Trump’s attention. And Zucker certainly knew exactly which levers to pull when it came to the president, given their long and lucrative relationship via the reality show The Apprentice.
About 30 minutes before Cuomo appeared on CNN by remote feed, Gollust emailed a programing staffer, cc’ing Zucker, and offered the governor as a last-minute guest to talk about Trump’s proposed quarantine. She then told Zucker that the governor would like to speak with him. When the segment ended, Gollust texted Cuomo: “Well done . . . Cuomo-W. Trump-L.”
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar forced Zucker out after Zucker did not disclose his affair with Gollust, who worked as a subordinate to Zucker as a CNN marketing executive.
But the more details emerge, the more it becomes clear that CNN and its soon-to-be new parent company Discovery pushed out Zucker because Zucker destroyed CNN’s image as a news organization to turn CNN into an anti-Trump political operation.
In the case of Cuomo and Donald Trump CNN did not report the news.
CNN scripted, manufactured and stage-managed the news to cheerlead for Andrew Cuomo – the brother of star CNN anchor Chris Cuomo – and to attack Donald Trump.
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