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Trump’s CNN Town Hall Was Never Going to Go Well.
It’s all about the ratings.
I couldn’t even bring myself to watch CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump.
Suffice it to say that the live reactions on social media and the quotes that I’ve seen since were enough for me to gauge just how bad it was. The man took complete control of the interview, made fun of E. Jean Carroll was about as unpleasant as you would expect he’d be to any follow up questions whatsoever, and the audience seemed to be stacked with an audience who viewed him in a positive light.
Paul Farhi and Jeremy Barr with The Washington Post writes:
“…The former president repeatedly dodged or sneered at questions from CNN’s moderator, Kaitlan Collins, during the live, 70-minute forum at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire on Wednesday night. He doubled down on false claims that “a rigged election” led to his 2020 ouster and referred to writer E. Jean Carroll, who just prevailed in her lawsuit against him for defamation and battery, as a “whack job,” to cheers and laughter from the audience, made up of local Republican voters…”
Once again, it was a free, lengthy campaign ad.
But, that’s how we all knew it was going to end up, right? I’m not sure how we could have expected anything different given the way these…
