CNN Town Hall with Donald Trump: May 10, 2023

Politics & Elections
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I couldn’t find anything about this on the board, but if it belongs better elsewhere, Mods, please feel free to move to a more appropriate forum, or fold it into an existing topic.

Anyway, it gets going in just a few minutes as I type this. What do you expect to hear? Will Trump actually answer any questions, or will he deflect in some way. Will he fall back on his “stolen election” stuff, no matter what the question is? What will he have to say about losing the E. Jean Carroll suit, if he addresses it at all?

There’s probably a drinking game in here somewhere. At any rate, the Town Hall is getting underway.

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I think this thread is fine where it is and doesn’t need to be moved anywhere.

I’m glad you started it, because I can’t bring myself to watch that disgusting slug bloviating… well, ever, but most especially not to a fawning audience.

I look forward to hearing the points made in this thread about how it’s going.

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I tried to watch it and I couldn’t go longer than a minute or two before I could no longer take it.

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Well, so far, he’s touched upon the so-called “rigged election,” and has moved on to how he wanted to call in 10,000 National Guards to protect the Capitol on January 6, but Nancy Pelosi and others wouldn’t let that happen.

He’s digressing from the questions where he can, and the Moderator, Kaitlin Collins, is having a hard time getting him back on track.

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I watched a few minutes, and was pleased to see that the CNN moderator was not letting him off easy. She cut him off when he started babbling about border security, and asked a follow-up question: “Do you regret anything about January 6” and then reminded him that he was in charge of the National Guard the he tried to blame Nancy Pelosi for security failures.

But then i couldn’t take any more.

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At least you tried.

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Gosh, I feel like I’m taking one for the team here.

Annnnd … it’s time for another beer. Probably the only way I’ll make it through.

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So just lying, basically. Apparently the audience is mostly Trump supporters.

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I’m hoping she gets him to say the Dominion machines were fraudulent. He is so close to that

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With our fervent thanks. :slight_smile:

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I can no longer watch him talking at all.

Him walking into court and having the door swing shut in his face because the guard didn’t hold it for him, is a different case. :grinning:

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Moderator is flustered and failing to control her line of questioning. He’s playing her.

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I don’t know why anyone at CNN thought they’d be able to fact check him in real time – or maybe they don’t care about fact checking anymore. He’s just a seething gish gallop of endless lies.

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They should have a way to tag out, send in a fresh moderator.

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He still doesn’t know who the Proud boys are

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Scared the cats laughing at that!

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“In Washington, you can’t get a fair trial. Same as in New York City you can’t get a fair trial.”

Moving on to the E. Jean Carroll matter. “I don’t know him, I don’t know who she is.”

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One should always know who is giving him the reach-around.

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The NYT is doing live coverage commentary on their website. The latest one:

“Trump is going through a convoluted mocking of E. Jean Carroll, whom a jury found him liable of sexually abusing and defaming, and the audience is laughing along with him as he speaks.”

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And then he talks about meeting her at Bergdorf Goodman. “She was about 60.” (Or so, paraphrased.) “Horrible Clinton-appointed judge; this is a fake story.”

Mod: Do you regret not testifying in the trial?

Trump: No, my lawyers advised me not to. It would lend credibility to her [Carroll’s] story. So I didn’t.