{"id":1923334,"date":"2023-05-03T06:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-partake-in-cnn-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:29:38","slug":"trump-to-partake-in-cnn-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-partake-in-cnn-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to join CNN Town Hall."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-to-partake-in-cnn-town-hall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923334&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Trump to Participate in CNN Town Hall Despite Feud<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0502\/04843fac-50ba-4b30-b967-f0d8b6f78266\/audio.mp3?length=2392173&#038;duration=199\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump, the current frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, is set to participate in a May <a title=\"The Top 5 Senate Races to Watch on Election Night\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-top-5-senate-races-to-watch-on-election-night\/\">10 <\/a><a title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\">town hall<\/a> in New Hampshire hosted by CNN, which he has long railed against as being part of the \u201c<a title=\"Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-covid-case-surges-more-fake-news\/\">fake news<\/a>\u201d media.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, what? Trump on CNN? Yes, you read that right. Despite his ongoing feud with the network, Trump is putting aside his differences to appeal to the American people.<\/p>\n<h3>Breaking Boundaries<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cGoing outside the traditional Republican \u201ccomfort zone\u201d was a key to President Trump\u2019s success in 2016. Some other candidates are too afraid to take this step in their quest to defeat Joe Biden, and are afraid to do anything other than Fox News,\u201d a Trump adviser told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>By participating in the CNN town hall, Trump is breaking boundaries and showing that he is willing to engage with all <a title=\"Democrat, Big Tech and Media Actions to Steal the Election \u2013 Here\u2019s What\u2019s Going on in Pennsylvania and Michigan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-big-tech-and-media-actions-to-steal-the-election-heres-whats-going-on-in-pennsylvania-and-michigan\/\">media outlets<\/a>, not just those that align with his views.<\/p>\n<h3>A Compelling Pitch<\/h3>\n<p>According to the same adviser, \u201cCNN executives made a compelling pitch.\u201d While the details of the pitch are unknown, it was enough to convince Trump to participate in the town hall.<\/p>\n<h3>Re-Legitimizing CNN<\/h3>\n<p>Media analyst Jon Nicosia believes that Trump&#8217;s decision to participate in the town hall will help re-legitimize CNN and may even be a veiled shot at Fox News.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Trump supporters, this move may be concerning, but it shows that Trump is a product of New York and the media.<\/li>\n<li>Despite his &#8220;fake news&#8221; rhetoric, Trump just can&#8217;t quit the media.<\/li>\n<li>By participating in the CNN town hall, Trump is re-legitimizing the network overnight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A Hail Mary for CNN<\/h3>\n<p>Conservative media watchdog NewsBusters&#8217; managing editor Curtis Houck believes that the town hall is about CNN as much as it is about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a hail mary of sorts for CNN to even get a brief sugar high of ratings that aren\u2019t in the basement of <a title=\"Fox News Is Swirling Down The Toilet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-is-swirling-down-the-toilet\/\">cable news<\/a>. For all the talk about Donald Trump being a menace and danger to not only the lives of journalists, but the country and the world, it\u2019s all a joke and show for ratings and approval from their thirsty Resistance audience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The town hall will take place on May 10 at 9 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump, the current frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, is set to participate in a May 10 town hall in New Hampshire hosted by CNN, which he has long railed against as being part of the \u201cfake news\u201d media. However, Trump will apparently cast aside his feud with CNN in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1923335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trump to join CNN Town Hall.","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[9373,9165,9167,3634],"class_list":["post-1923334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-cnn","tag-hall","tag-town","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trump to join CNN Town Hall.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}