In October, Oliver Darcy, senior media reporter for CNN, spread disinformation about the reporting of the Hunter Biden influence-peddling articles at the New York Post in order to discredit the story.
In October, Oliver Darcy, senior media reporter for CNN, desperately tried to discredit the New York Post's bombshell articles about Hunter Biden's alleged corruption.
New York Post source tells me that inside the outlet, “All this Hunter Biden shit is being done in its own bubble. It's happening on an island within an island.” Person calls situation “gross” but is happy others are applying scrutiny and “see the grift.” https://t.co/GFsIo2dNu4
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy)
He wrote "New York Post source tells me that inside the outlet, 'All this Hunter Biden shit is being done in its own bubble. It's happening on an island within an island.' Person calls situation 'gross' but is happy others are applying scrutiny and 'see the grift.'"
While CNN refused to report on the story itself, they did everything they could to attack the story and to discredit those who wrote it and published it. CNN blamed President Trump for the story, and used his sharing and tweeting of the story as proof that the story was false.
Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter wrote that: "In [Trump's] imagination, the contested New York Post story about Hunter Biden's emails is 'the second biggest political scandal in our history!' The exclamation mark is Trump's, not mine. Almost every day the sitting president is saying and doing things to try to delegitimize this election."
In a tape of a phone call of an Oct. 14 CNN editorial meeting released by Project Veritas, the network’s political director David Chalian said "Obviously, we're not going with the New York Post story right now on Hunter Biden." He said that the story was "giving its marching orders" to the "rightwing echo chamber about what to talk about today."
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