{"id":1929051,"date":"2023-05-11T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-adamant-about-2020-election-jan-6-protest-during-cnn-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:27:23","slug":"trump-adamant-about-2020-election-jan-6-protest-during-cnn-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-adamant-about-2020-election-jan-6-protest-during-cnn-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sticks to 2020 election and Jan. 6 protest in 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\">26<\/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-adamant-about-2020-election-jan-6-protest-during-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=1929051&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--><h2>Former President Trump Clashes with CNN Moderator<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump made headlines on Wednesday as he appeared on CNN for the first major TV event of the 2024 presidential campaign. Moderator Kaitlin Collins tried to school him on the facts of the 2020 election and the subsequent U.S. Capitol protest on Jan. 6, 2021, but Trump refused to cave in.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump Refuses to Admit Defeat<\/h3>\n<p>Collins tried to get Trump to admit he lost the 2020 election and to disavow claims that it was stolen or rigged. Minutes into his hourlong appearance, Trump declared that only \u201ca very stupid person\u201d would fail to see the problems with the 2020 election. He then said he knows that Collins, a former White House correspondent, is \u201cnot stupid at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he called out Collins, saying, \u201cBut perhaps you are given an agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Trump Draws Applause from Crowd<\/h3>\n<p>Trump drew applause from the crowd of Republican and undeclared voters at the event at St. Amselm College in New Hampshire, when he said, \u201cLook, we have to have honest elections in our country \u2026 Let\u2019s just win it again and straighten out our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Trump Defends Jan. 6 Protesters<\/h3>\n<p>Collins asked Trump whether he had any regrets about the events of Jan. 6. When she asked why he didn\u2019t disavow violence sooner, Trump produced a printout from his breast pocket and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-adamant-about-2020-election-jan-6-protest-during-cnn-town-hall\/\" title=\"Trump sticks to 2020 election and Jan. 6 protest in CNN Town Hall.\">began reciting tweets<\/a> that showed he had urged people to be peaceful before, during and after the march on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey thought the election was rigged. They were there proud, with love in their heart \u2026 and it was an unbelievable day,\u201d Trump said, adding the crowd was the largest he had ever addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he was \u201cinclined\u201d to pardon many of the protesters prosecuted for their involvement in the Jan. 6 event, which Democrats labeled an \u201cinsurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also noted that he\u2019d given then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) the chance to have 10,000 National Guard troops to guard the Capitol, but she declined.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump Denies Sexual Assault Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>Collins introduced Trump on the night by announcing, \u201cHe\u2019s the first former president in more than a century to seek a return to the White House, and he is currently leading the Republican field but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-intel-official-who-signed-letter-saying-hunter-biden-laptop-is-russian-disinfo-admits-he-knew-significant-portions-of-emails-had-to-be-real\/\" title=\"Ex-Intel Official Who Signed Letter Saying Hunter Biden Laptop Is Russian Disinfo Admits He Knew \"Significant Portions\" of Emails \"Had to Be Real\"\">facing multiple criminal investigations<\/a> and an indictment. Just yesterday, he was held liable for sexual abuse and defamation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was referring to a New York jury\u2019s verdict in the case of E. Jean Carroll, a former journalist who alleged Trump sexually assaulted her sometime in the 1970s in a department store. He described Carroll\u2019s account as ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of a woman meets someone, and within moments, you\u2019re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room?\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>He also repeated his denial of encountering Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know who the hell she is \u2026 and I swear on my children, which I never do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump Talks Ukraine and the Economy<\/h3>\n<p>After an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-from-bidens-cnn-town-hall\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s Everything You Need To Know From Biden\u2019s CNN Town Hall\">audience member asked<\/a> whether Trump would support sending more money to Ukraine, Collins asked: \u201cDo you want Ukraine to win this war?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he doesn\u2019t like to think of \u201cwinning\u201d vs. \u201closing\u201d in such a situation. \u201cI think of it in terms of getting it settled,\u201d he said. \u201cI want everyone to stop dying.\u201d But he needs the power of the presidency to step in and make that happen, Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Fielding questions from the audience, Trump said he would secure the U.S.-Mexico border and would \u201cdrill baby, drill\u201d for oil to immediately improve the economy by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-manchin-record-inflation-threat-getting-worse\/\" title=\"Sen. Manchin: Record inflation threat \u2018getting worse\u2019\">lowering energy costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also said he is concerned about the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump came out swinging against a CNN moderator on Wednesday as she interrupted him and tried to school him on the facts of the 2020 election, the subsequent U.S. Capitol protest on Jan. 6, 2021, and other topics. 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