We’ve already highlighted how CNSnews.com writer Susan Jones has leaned heavily on the infamous July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky inserting excerpts of the released transcript of the conversation into several CNS articles in an attempt to defend Trump.
Jones used a Nov. 13 CNS article to lecture Rep. Adam Schiff for trying to keep the impeachment hearings focused on Trump’s actions and not Republican obsessions over the Bidens:
Schiff, by shutting down questions about the Bidens and Ukraine’s alleged interference in the 2016 U. S. election, is refusing to allow Republicans to explore what Trump apparently believed when he spoke with Zelensky on July 25.
Certainly Trump’s personal attorney and close friend Rudy Giuliani believed Ukraine corruption impacted his client.
Giuliani has told various media outlets he spent months investigating “corruption at the highest levels of the Obama administration, which included illegal impact from Ukraine on the 2016 election. I was investigating this as an attorney to vindicate my client,” Giuliani tweeted on Oct. 1. “It began and was largely done before Biden announced his run for President.”
Giuliani alleges that Joe Biden “obstructed an investigation of Dem 2016 election interference” by forcing the firing of a former Ukraine prosecutor general.
Jones then spent several paragraphs once again summarizing the Trump-Zelensky call (as she did before, Jones once again omitted Zelensky’s first name). She did, however, add a minor correction; after stating that Trump asked Zelensky to look into “a supposed Ukrainian link to the hacking of the DNC server,” she parenthetically added, “The U.S. intelligence community blamed Russia, not Ukraine, for the hacking.”
But she also wrote:
In 2018, Biden bragged that as the sitting vice president, he threatened to hold up a U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine unless that country’s prosecutor-general was fired. Biden and other witnesses have said Biden was carrying out U.S. and international efforts to get rid of a corrupt prosecutor.
But at the time, Biden’s son Hunter was earning big money by sitting on the board of Burisma, a Ukraine energy company owned by an allegedly corrupt oligarch whom the Ukraine prosecutors had been investigating.
That is false. In fact, the corrupt prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was not investigating Burisma or much other corruption in the country, which is why the U.S. and the international community wanted him gone. Not only that, the prosecutor had actually been shielding the head of Burisma by refusing to hand over documents in a British probe of the company.
That seems like important information for Jones to tell her readers. But defending Trump is her first priority, not reporting all relevant facts.