{"id":573967,"date":"2023-05-11T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/five-takeaways-from-trumps-cnn-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T03:30:10","slug":"five-takeaways-from-trumps-cnn-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-trumps-cnn-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"#Five takeaways from Trump\u2019s CNN town hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a332a2e00434\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a332a2e00434\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-trumps-cnn-town-hall\/#A_disaster_for_CNN\" >A disaster for CNN<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-trumps-cnn-town-hall\/#Trump_was_strikingly_evasive_on_abortion\" >Trump was strikingly evasive on abortion<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-trumps-cnn-town-hall\/#Trump_on_the_debt_ceiling_%E2%80%98Youre_gonna_have_to_do_a_default\" >Trump on the debt ceiling: \u2018You\u2019re gonna have to do a default\u2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-trumps-cnn-town-hall\/#Election_lies_and_downplaying_Jan_6\" >Election lies and downplaying Jan. 6<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-takeaways-from-trumps-cnn-town-hall\/#A_big_night_for_Trump_spells_trouble_for_his_GOP_rivals\" >A big night for Trump spells trouble for his GOP rivals<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/644d6b7ed851b2.34858599-e1683225666856.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The biggest event so far in the 2024 election cycle took place in New Hampshire Wednesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former President Trump participated in a town hall event hosted by CNN, with Kaitlan Collins serving as moderator.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The fact that the event was h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening at all had drawn some criticism beforehand \u2014 mostly, but not exclusively, from liberals and the left.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a ratings bonanza was forecast by many <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>-watchers.<\/p>\n<p>After all the hype, here are the main takeaways.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_disaster_for_CNN\"><\/span><strong>A disaster for CNN<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Trump did not so much win the event as CNN lost it \u2014 catastrophically.<\/p>\n<p>Not all of the blame can be placed on Collins, though there were clearly moments when she could have pushed back faster or more strongly.<\/p>\n<p>A far bigger problem was a decision, presumably taken by producers, to have a live audience \u201cmade up of Republicans and undeclared voters who tend to take part in New Hampshire\u2019s Republican primary,\u201d as Collins put it in her introductory remarks.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>What that meant was an audience loudly supportive of Trump at every turn \u2014 and plainly disdainful of Collins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around halfway through the event, Trump\u2019s description of Collins as \u201ca nasty person\u201d drew whoops of delight.<\/p>\n<p>Not a single tough question was asked of Trump by any audience member.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Perhaps most strikingly of all, Trump\u2019s denial of ever having met, much less abused, E. Jean Carroll, received raucous approval \u2014 despite a nine-person jury having found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation of Carroll only the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>Offering his own spin on Carroll\u2019s story, Trump wondered \u201cWhat kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes you are playing hanky panky in a dressing room, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many in the audience laughed.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Media figures, as well as politicians on the left, reacted with horror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe this is being allowed on @CNN,\u201d tweeted Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> anchor whose allegations of sexual harassment sparked the downfall of that network\u2019s one-time supremo, Roger Ailes. \u201cThis is promulgating the cult leadership of Trump \u2014 and people are laughing at sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted, \u201cCNN should be ashamed of themselves. They have lost total control of this \u2018town hall\u2019 to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez added, \u201cThe audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN shouldn\u2019t create programming to please Ocasio-Cortez, of course \u2014 any more than it should mold coverage to please Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But the network has serious questions to answer about an event that spiraled so abjectly \u2014 and set up one of its own rising stars for a humiliating failure.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Trump_was_strikingly_evasive_on_abortion\"><\/span><strong>Trump was strikingly evasive on abortion<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Collins did have some sliver of success when she pressed Trump on his position on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>She was not able to wring from him a specific answer on whether he would sign a federal abortion ban if he were to win back the presidency in 2024. Yet, the vagueness and evasiveness of his response was revealing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump proclaimed that the Supreme Court\u2019s decision striking down Roe v. Wade last June was \u201ca great victory.\u201d His rationale was an unusual one.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The former president contended that the decision \u201cwas an incredible thing for pro-life because it gave pro-life something to negotiate with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The explanation that followed was not clear, but Trump appeared to be arguing that, with the erstwhile constitutional guarantee of a right to abortion gone, it was easier to make deals between liberals and conservatives on certain limits to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to distance himself from the most rigid anti-abortion positions in his party \u2014 positions that have fared badly at the polls in recent months \u2014 he added, \u201cI happen to believe in the exceptions\u201d to outright bans.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Trump several times avoided Collins\u2019s question on whether he would sign a federal ban.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Trump_on_the_debt_ceiling_%E2%80%98Youre_gonna_have_to_do_a_default\"><\/span><strong>Trump on the debt ceiling: \u2018You\u2019re gonna have to do a default\u2019<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The former president encouraged his party colleagues on Capitol Hill to hold to a hard line in the ongoing talks about the debt ceiling \u2014 even if it came at the price of the kind of U.S. default that virtually all credible economists say would be disastrous.<\/p>\n<p>Trump vigorously backed the position put forward by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) among others \u2014 that the debt ceiling should only be raised if President Biden and the Democrats accede to steep spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has declined to countenance that idea. Democrats often note that Republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling three times during Trump\u2019s one term, even as he added more than $7 trillion to the national debt.<\/p>\n<p>Trump insisted Republicans in Congress should stand firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say to the Republicans out there \u2014 congressmen, senators \u2014 if they don\u2019t give you massive cuts, you\u2019re gonna have to do a default,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He predicted that the Democrats would \u201cabsolutely cave\u201d in the face of such a strong position.<\/p>\n<p>But, he suggested, even if they did not and the U.S. went into default for the first time in its history, \u201cit\u2019s better than what we\u2019re doing right now because we\u2019re spending money like drunken sailors.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Election_lies_and_downplaying_Jan_6\"><\/span><strong>Election lies and downplaying Jan. 6<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps the most predictable part of Wednesday\u2019s event came with Trump\u2019s standard lines about the 2020 election, and his minimization of what took place on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, Collins tried to push back, but a combination of the Trump-backing crowd and his brash demeanor contributed to her getting steamrollered.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that 2020 was \u201ca rigged election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the protesters on Jan. 6 2021 \u201cwere there with love in their heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around 140 police officers were injured on Jan. 6, when a crowd ransacked the Capitol while seeking to overturn a legitimate presidential election and thwart the peaceful transfer of power.<\/p>\n<p>Trump soon afterward became the first American president in history to be twice impeached. The second impeachment was for inciting the Jan. 6 riot.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_big_night_for_Trump_spells_trouble_for_his_GOP_rivals\"><\/span><strong>A big night for Trump spells trouble for his GOP rivals<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>CNN may well have delivered Trump his biggest boost yet in his quest for the 2024 GOP nomination \u2014 an ironic twist for a news network to which the former president almost always used to append the term \u201cFake News.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of the traits that Trump\u2019s hardcore supporters admire were on full display on Wednesday \u2014 the belligerence, the swatting-aside of criticism and the mocking of opponents and adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>He never came close to being trapped in any politically awkward spot \u2014 save perhaps when declining to answer whether he wanted Russia or Ukraine to win the war sparked by Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s February 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, CNN got humiliated at his hands \u2014 a sweet victory for conservatives who detest the network.<\/p>\n<p>The event plainly reinforced Trump\u2019s position as the dominant player in the GOP field.<\/p>\n<p>That is very bad news for the rivals who are already trailing in his wake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. 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