CNN Worldwide President Jeffrey Zucker has been accused of waging a vendetta against President Trump, and undercover footage released Monday by Project Veritas did nothing to dispel that view.

The self-described guerilla journalism outlet released a hidden-camera report featuring audio of a man identified as Mr. Zucker pushing for coverage advancing the Trump impeachment narrative and blasting Fox News for its “fake conspiracy nonsense.”

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“Jeff Zucker, basically president of CNN, has a personal vendetta against Trump,” said a man identified as Nick Neville, media coordinator for CNN in Washington, D.C., adding, “It’s not going to be positive for Trump. He [Zucker] hates him. He’s going to be negative.”

CNN spokesman Matt Dornic did not deny the identify of network employees featured in the undercover sting by Project Veritas, which has targeted several prominent left-tilting media outlets since Mr. Trump took office, but dismissed the report as unworthy of comment.

“There’s really nothing to comment on,” Mr. Dornic said in an email.

Cary Poarch, a contractor and satellite uplink technician for CNN in D.C., said he wore a hidden camera and recorded the daily “9 a.m. rundown call” led by Mr. Zucker, who can be heard pushing for the cable network to “stay very focused on impeachment.”

“We’re moving towards impeachment,” Mr. Zucker said in the audio. “I mean, don’t like, you know — we shouldn’t pretend, oh, this is going one way. And so all these moves are moves toward impeachment. So don’t lose sight of what the biggest story is.”

In another clip, Mr. Zucker also told staff it was time to “call out” Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican.

“I know that there’s a lot of people at CNN that are friendly with Lindsey Graham. Time to knock that off,” Mr. Zucker said in the audio. “And it’s time to call him out.”

Those commenting on social media said the video revealed beyond a doubt CNN’s anti-Trump agenda and political bias, while others downplayed the report’s significance.

In one clip, a man identified as CNN floor coordinator Hiram Gonzalez referred to the network’s role in promoting Mr. Trump, who has been credited with juicing the network’s flagging ratings during the 2016 presidential campaign.

“Between you and I, we created this monster and now we’re eating him full plate every single day,” Mr. Gonzalez said. “Media created the Trump monster.”

CNN has faced criticism from both the right and left for its Trump coverage. Both Mr. Trump and conservatives have accused the network of an anti-Trump bias, while the left blamed CNN for propelling the Republican’s 2016 rise with its heavy coverage.

Mr. Zucker has been upfront about how Mr. Trump drives ratings, telling Vanity Fair in a 2018 interview that when CNN stops covering Mr. Trump, “the audience goes away.”

(Excerpt from The Washington Times. Article by Valerie Richardson.)