CNN’s Anderson Cooper devoted a portion of his primetime program to address the backlash against the network for its town hall with Donald Trump, in which the Republican spewed lies and misin…
, in which the Republican spewed lies and misinformation before a friendly, cheering audience.
Cooper’s comments were a defense of the network’s decision to go forward with the town hall, plans that drew criticism for the past week as many predicted that moderator Kaitlan Collins would be able to fully fact-check Trump in real time. While she did try to call out some of his misinformation, Trump seemed emboldened by the friendly audience, and at times veered from one topic to the next, and never conceded that the 2020 presidential election was legitimate.
Perhaps most disturbing was when Trump was asked about a jury’s $5 million verdict finding him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll. Trump mocked her and called the trial “rigged,” while getting applause and even laughs from the audience. The New York Times reported that Carroll is now weighing whether to file a new defamation lawsuit against Trump based on the comments he made during the event.
After the event on Wednesday, Mark Lukasiewicz, a former network news executive who is now dean at Hofstra University’s School of Communication, wrote, “Live lying works. Live fact checking does not.”
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