World Famous Liar Lies Throughout CNN Town Hall

May 11, 2023 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

The New York Times reports:

Donald Trump is still Donald Trump. CNN’s decision to give him an unfiltered prime-time platform was a callback to the 2016 campaign, even as the moderator, Kaitlan Collins, persistently interjected to try to cut him off or correct him. If viewers were expecting Mr. Trump to have moved on from his falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen from him, he demonstrated once again, right out of the gate, that he very much hasn’t.

Mr. Trump later said he was “inclined” to pardon “many” of the rioters arrested on Jan. 6, 2021, after the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob during certification of President Biden’s Electoral College win. His avoidance of an unequivocal promise pleased people close to him. “A beautiful day,” he said of Jan. 6.

The audience’s regular interruptions on behalf of Mr. Trump were like a laugh track on a sitcom. It built momentum for him in the room — and onscreen for the television audience — and stifled Ms. Collins as she repeatedly tried to interrupt him with facts and correctives.

The Washington Post reports:

He refused to acknowledge he lost the last election. He said he’d pardon rioters at the U.S. Capitol. He condoned sexual assault and smeared a victim. He wouldn’t rule out restoring a policy of separating immigrant families at the border or say if he wanted Ukraine to defeat Russia. He countenanced defaulting on the national debt. And he dodged repeated questions on abortion.

Former president Donald Trump used his highly anticipated return to mainstream cable television news to give a broader swath of Americans an unvarnished view of what he has been saying at rallies and in right-wing media. The televised CNN town hall kicked off with Trump repeatedly refusing to accept his defeat in the 2020 election and defending the mob of his supporters who disrupted the peaceful transfer of power.

Axios reports:

Pushed repeatedly about his unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud in 2020, Trump made a series of false statements, claiming that “millions” of votes were illegal. “Unless you’re a very stupid person…most people understand what happened was a rigged election,” he said.

He made contradicting claims about his January 2021 call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump pressured Raffensperger to overturn the state’s 2020 election results — a call that’s being investigated by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Trump falsely claimed, “I didn’t ask (Raffensberger) to find anything,” before later conceding: “I said, ‘You owe me votes because the election was rigged.’”

The Insider reports:



Journalists wrote that Collins — whom Trump called a “nasty person” during the event — had been given an almost impossible and thankless task.

“Props to @kaitlancollins who was in an impossible position but did a heroic job of fact-checking Trump throughout the town hall,” The New York Times’ Peter Baker wrote on Twitter. “No easy task given how many factually untrue things he said in such a short time.”

CNN argued that as the 2024 GOP frontrunner Trump was newsworthy, but ahead of the town hall critics were lining up with their worries about giving so much air time to a man who was just found liable for sexual abuse, who is accused of inciting an insurrection on January 6, 2021, and who has shown time and time again to play fast and loose with the truth.

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