When Trump confidante and sleazy political operative Roger Stone was arrested on various on a warrant from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation earlier this year, CNSNews.com was quick to embrace the bogus conspiracy theory that Mueller tipped off CNN to the arrest so it could have cameras there. Even Mueller himself pointed out this was not true, but CNS never told its readers about it.
Despite that obsession over Stone’s arrest, CNS’ interest in the case didn’t extend to his trial, not even bothering to offer daily coverage of it. And when Stone was found guilty, CNS did the absolute minimum: an anonymously written Nov. 15 article stating that “Political consultant Roger Stone was found guilty today by a jury that convicted him of obstructing a congressional investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to a statement put out by the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia,” followed by a copy-and-paste job of the entire statement.
No mention of the conspiracy theory it once embraced, no mention of any statement by Stone or his attorneys on the verdict — just an grudging acceptance that maybe Stone is as terrible as everyone outside the Trump orbit CNS occupies has said, and the ultimate in lazy stenography.