A contender for my favorite movie line is the faux declaration of shock expressed by the corrupt police prefect, Captain Louis Renault, in the classic 1942 film “Casablanca.” Upon “discovering” there was gambling in “Rick’s Café Américain,” Renault, who is the perennial beneficiary of that illegal enterprise, insists, “I’m shocked — shocked — to find that gambling is going on in here!” A moment later a croupier hands Renault a wad of cash, saying, “Your winnings, sir.” Renault responds, “Oh, thank you very much.”

In that same vein, brace yourself. I know you will be shocked — shocked — to find out that CNN, the nation’s leading propagator of fake news, was fully committed across its media platforms to defeating Donald Trump, whether with fact or fiction.

CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester was on a faux Tinder honey-trap date when caught on video (compliments of Project Veritas) explaining how CNN “got Trump out” of office.

According to Chester: “Look what we did, we [CNN] got Trump out. I am 100​% going to say it, and I 100​% believe that if it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that Trump would have got [sic] voted out. … Our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that’s what it was.”

Describing an example of how CNN propagated fake news, Chester noted: “[Trump’s] hand was shaking or whatever. … We brought in so many medical people to all tell a story that was all speculation — that he was neurologically damaged, and he was losing it. He’s unfit to — you know — whatever. … We were creating a story there that we didn’t know anything about, you know? That’s what I think is propaganda.” Conversely, Chester noted, “We would always show shots of [Biden] jogging and that [he’s] healthy, you know, and him in aviator shades. Like you paint him as a young geriatric.”

Chester said he did not care if Biden died because Kamala Harris was “f—ing real.”

Now that Trump is out and Harris, Biden’s heir-apparent puppeteer, is waiting in the wings, what is CNN going to do as its next propaganda act?

Well, Chester says, “I think there’s a COVID fatigue. … They’ve already announced in our office that once the public is — will be — open to it, we’re going to start focusing mainly on climate. It’s going to be [CNN’s] focus. Like our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that’s what it was, right? So our next thing is going to be climate change awareness. … Like, constantly showing videos of decline in ice, and weather warming up, and like the effects it’s having on the economy​. … Climate change can take years, so [CNN will] probably be able to milk that quite a bit.”

Ah, yes, back to the future of the Demos’ socialist so-called “climate change” agenda!

Chester confirmed that the “head of the network,” Jeff Zucker, chairman of WarnerMedia News & Sports, which owns CNN, was integral in setting CNN’s agenda. But regarding CNN’s propaganda, he added, “No one ever says those things out loud.” For the moment, though his LinkedIn account with his CNN employment information has been deleted, he has not yet been fired, as that would be tantamount to affirming his claims.

So, where are the fact-checkers and deplatformers? When will CNN go down?

Oh, wait, CNN is an integral part of the Leftmedia and social media cabal, dedicated to systemically redlining and canceling only conservative media and organizations supporting American Liberty.