Democrats on Wednesday blasted CNN after former President Trump’s town hall on the network, blasting the longtime cable news mainstay for giving the former president and current 2024 GOP frontrunner a platform to double down on debunked election denial claims.
Trump hit a number of familiar talking points during the town hall, refusing to back down from claims that the 2020 election was rigged, even as moderator Kaitlan Collins pushed back against the debunked arguments, sometimes struggling to contain the former president. The event was attended by an audience of “Republicans and undeclared voters who tend to take part in New Hampshire’s Republican primary,” with the crowd frequently cheering Trump’s most aggressive attack lines.
During and after the broadcast, Democrats took to social media to blast CNN for the program. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said the network “should be ashamed.”
“CNN should be ashamed of themselves,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “They have lost total control of this ‘town hall’ to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim. The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host.”
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) argued that the network had “learned nothing” in the aftermath of 2016 and 2020.
Rep. Steven Cohen (D-Tenn.) said that airing Trump’s town hall was giving a platform to the “biggest con man.”
“CNN puts the nations biggest con man, grifter, misogynist, and threat to democracy on prime time for an hour,” Cohen tweeted.
Trump also targeted Collins during the vent, saying she was a “nasty person” after she repeatedly asked him about his handling of classified documents. Former Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) lauded Collins for “doing a brilliant job pushing back.”
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