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‘F-cking Disgrace’: CNN Gifts Trump Prime-Time Campaign Rally
Network insiders who spoke to Rolling Stone were distraught that the former president had free rein to “spew lies” during the ill-advised town hall

CNN invited Donald Trump to lie on its airwaves for over an hour on Wednesday night. The evening was billed as a town hall, but played more like a campaign rally for the former president, who steamrolled and repeatedly mocked moderator Kaitlan Collins, pushing a torrent of misinformation about the 2020 election, the multiple investigations into his conduct, and pretty much everything else he commented on.

One CNN insider who spoke to Rolling Stone called the evening “appalling,” lamenting that the network gave Trump “a huge platform to spew his lies.”

Collins tried her best to correct Trump as he spoke. And immediately after Trump went off-air, CNN anchor Jake Tapper led a parade of pundits and fact-checkers to counter his dissembling and pan his performance.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-cnn-town-hall-network-insiders-disgrace-1234733328/

ANALYSIS: Trump Scores TKO in CNN’s Town Hall Debate

Donald Trump won the first debate of the 2024 presidential cycle Wednesday night, and it wasn’t even close.

What debate, you ask? Then you didn’t watch CNN’s broadcast from St. Anselm College, which was billed as a town hall, but was instead a head-to-head brawl between Trump and the network’s Kaitlan Collins.

nhjournal.com/analysis-trump-scores-tko-in-cnns-town-hall-debate/

Donald Trump’s CNN Town Hall Was a Disaster
If this is how the network plans to cover 2024, its CEO might as well resign now.

He also happens to be the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and that fact was all it took for CNN to ignore literally everything else and give Trump a full hour live Wednesday night as part of a breathtakingly ill-conceived “town hall” with New Hampshire voters. The discussion, moderated poorly by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, was simultaneously a triggering flashback to the bad old days of Trump’s presidency, a frustrating preview of what we can likely expect over the next 18 months, and a conclusive repudiation of CNN CEO Chris Licht’s doomed plan to restore the network’s fortunes by tacking to the imagined middle.

Trump bragged about the “perfect” call to Zelensky and announced that Nancy Pelosi was “crazy.” Though Collins came prepared, she was ultimately defenseless against Trump’s dark talents for ignoring or belittling people he deems less important than him, which is everybody. She’d try to get him to answer a specific question. He’d ignore her and talk about some bullshit. She’d interject with a hapless “But Mr. President …” He’d ignore her again, and then she’d move on. “The election was not rigged, Mr. President. You can’t keep saying that,” Collins said at one point, and then Trump kept right on saying that. At one point, Trump called Collins “a nasty person.” The audience cheered. Collins tried her best, but her best was nowhere near good enough.

slate.com/business/2023/05/trump-cnn-town-hall-kaitlan-collins-new-hampshire-disaster.html

A stupid person told stupid lies and a dumb audience cheered him on. Go democracy?

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