CNSNews.com these days is mostly about being faithful to the dictates of the Trump White House. And when Steve Bannon was quoted in Michael Wolff’s book criticizing the Trump administration and its related scandals, CNS was there to eagerly help the White House make sure that Bannon is persona non grata.
CNS’ Melanie Arter dutifully transcribed official White House reaction in two articles on Jan. 3, the day book exerpts were released. The headline of the second article, though, sums up just how much being sucked up to means for this administration and inadvertently reveals the game CNS is currently playing: “White House on Steve Bannon: Going After President’s Son ‘Not the Best Way to Curry Favor’.”
The next day, Susan Jones wrote an flashback article on Bannon — which was CNS’ lead story for part of that day — insisting last September that the current investigation into Trump’s connections with Russia was a “farce,”the goal of which is to try and discredit Bannon’s assertion in the Wolff book that there is something to the investigation. She followed that with an article touting how Trump tweeted that Bannon was “Sloppy Steve.”
On Jan. 7, CNS published an unusual weekend column by Tim Donner attacking Bannon and declaring, “Let’s not mince words here. Bannon is toast.” Donner added that Trump supporters with stick with their “game-changing president” over “a guy who rode the wave into the White House before imploding and turning on the man who put him there.”
CNS couldn’t have followed the Trump agenda any closer if they had been told by the Trump White House what to publish — which, for all we know, may have actually happened.