Good propaganda piece by #CNN
Being given diamonds is totally ok, it is "only tax evasion", not corruption, which is a "dirtier" word.
https://t.co/uRMpcgr4NU

#Corruption2020 #BidenHarris2020

Equating a word with negative connotations with another less negative is a classic tactic of propagandists.
It draws a parallel between them.
Works the other way too.
Guilt by association, it can work with pictures side by side.
Works similar to

Starting the article with, "this thing you didn't know about" is a way to "suggest" to you that the following "bad thing" isn't as bad as you think.
Because if you "didn't know" about the first thing you should have doubt about this other thing "you thought you knew".

Cutting up the information about the story to "inject" an emotional state about something else, is to guide the emotion that was created by the first part of the story towards [x] and move it to something else [y].
re: all the crazy evil things Trump did, in middle of this story

Now the seeds of doubt have been planted and your emotion is redirected away from the subject of the story, we make the comparison between diamonds and tax, when you are in this emotional state the comparison is easier to suggest, this article is misdirection + programming.