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CNN Chief Admits: Without Trump, Our Ratings Collapse

John Bickley

No Trump, no ratings. That’s the reality of CNN’s situation in the Trump era, CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker begrudgingly admits.

In an interview with Vanity Fair that offers a glimpse “inside the Trump gold rush at CNN,” Zucker acknowledged some things that he’d probably rather not be the case: The network is indeed obsessed with Trump — because it has to be.

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