In case you needed another example of how CNSNews.com has become a servile pro-Trump stenographer, take these two stories by Susan Jones about Trump’s press conference in Poland.
In the first, Jones huffs that Trump was asked about the Russia controversy, effectively blaming the reporter for asking it:
“Will you once and for all, yes or no, definitively say that Russia interfered in the 2016 election?” NBC’s Hallie Jackson asked President Trump on Thursday morning as he stood side by side with the Polish president at a joint news conference.
“Well I think it was Russia, and I think it could have been other people in other countries. It could have been a lot of people interfered,” Trump responded.
“I think a lot of people interfered. I think it’s been happening for a long time — it’s been happening for many, many years.”
[…]Hallie Jackson asked a follow-up question, noting that the U.S. intelligence community has been definitive about Russian interference. “Why won’t you agree with them and say it was?” she asked.
Trump said, “Mistakes have been made” by the intelligence community, and “nobody knows for sure.” He noted that the intelligence community was wrong about Iraq having WMDs “and it led to a mess.”
He repeated that the election interference came from Russia, “and I think it was probably others, too.” And he asked again why Obama did nothing about it.
As the news conference ended, Jackson kept trying to ask a follow-up question, but Polish moderators cut her off, reminding her that she’d already asked her two questions.
Jones’ second story, however, was on a question more to Trump’s liking, and an answer that conformed much more closely to CNS’ right-wing anti-media agenda:
At a joint news conference with the Polish president in Warsaw on Thursday morning, President Donald Trump said he’d take a wait-and-see approach to North Korea’s bad behavior, but he wouldn’t tip his hand.
“I don’t like to talk about what I have planned,” he said.
Trump was also asked about CNN threatening to expose the identity of the man who created a parody of Trump beating up a CNN logo — a parody famously retweeted by Trump.
Trump answered the CNN question first, once again seizing the opportunity to criticize “fake news.” More on that in a moment.
[…]In response to the question about CNN threatening to expose the man behind the WrestleMania/CNN parody, Trump said, “I think what CNN did was unfortunate for them. As you know, now they have some pretty serious problems.
“They have been fake news for a long time. They have been covering me in a very dishonest way. Do you have that also, by the way, Mr. President?” Trump asked the Polish president.
Trump said NBC is just as bad as CNN — “despite the fact that I made them a fortune with ‘The Apprentice,’ but they forgot that.
“But I will say that CNN has really taken it too seriously, and I think they’ve hurt themselves badly — very, very badly.
“And what we want to see in the United States is honest — beautiful, free — but honest press. We want to see fair press. I think it’s a very important thing. We don’t want fake news. And by the way, not everybody is fake news. But we don’t want fake news. Bad thing. Very bad for our country.”
Unlike with the Russia question, Jones declined to identify the reporter who asked about the CNN parody. Perhaps that’s because the reporter was the Daily Mail’s David Martosko — who, as it so happens, was recently under consideration for a job in the White House press office. That’s how reliably pro-Trump Martosko is.
Either she’s trying to hide the pro-president bent of certain members of the White House press corps — something CNS and its Media Research Center owner was not shy about under a Democratic president — or Jones is maybe a little jealous that Martosko got to ask softball questions of Trump and not her.