{"id":1929264,"date":"2023-05-11T23:58:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-suffers-tsunami-of-leftist-backlash-over-trump-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:02:10","slug":"cnn-suffers-tsunami-of-leftist-backlash-over-trump-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-suffers-tsunami-of-leftist-backlash-over-trump-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN faces leftist backlash for Trump 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\">16<\/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%2Fcnn-suffers-tsunami-of-leftist-backlash-over-trump-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=1929264&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>CNN Faces Backlash for Airing Trump Town Hall<\/h2>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s decision to air a <a 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\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">town hall<\/a> with former President Donald Trump has sparked outrage from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scandal-plagued-human-rights-campaign-rejects-disney-donation-over-florida-bill-barring-sexuality-instruction-for-kids\/\" title=\"Scandal-Plagued Human Rights Campaign Rejects Disney Donation over Florida Bill Barring Sexuality Instruction for Kids\">leftist critics<\/a> both inside and outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-is-swirling-down-the-toilet\/\" title=\"Fox News Is Swirling Down The Toilet\">cable news network<\/a>. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took to Twitter to criticize CNN during the event, accusing them of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-suffers-tsunami-of-leftist-backlash-over-trump-town-hall\/\" title=\"CNN faces leftist backlash for Trump town hall.\">platforming election disinformation<\/a> and defending the Capitol riot. Even within left-leaning CNN, there was an uproar, with some calling the event a &#8220;Trump infomercial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Scathing Reviews from Critics<\/h3>\n<p>MSNBC host Joe Scarborough called the town hall &#8220;disgraceful on every level,&#8221; while Joy Behar, a co-host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; questioned if CNN was passing out Kool-Aid before the event started. Even CNN&#8217;s own media reporter, Oliver Darcy, reported on the &#8220;fury of criticism&#8221; both internally and externally over the event.<\/p>\n<h3>CNN Defends Decision to Host Trump<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the backlash, CNN released a statement defending its decision to host Trump and praising anchor Kaitlan Collins for her tough questioning. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/racial-health-equity-nonprofit-praises-clinic-accused-of-racism\/\" title=\"\u2018Racial Health Equity\u2019 Nonprofit Praises Clinic Accused of Racism\">network stated<\/a> that their role and responsibility is to get answers and hold the powerful to account.<\/p>\n<h3>Opinions Remain Unchanged<\/h3>\n<p>After the town hall, CNN national correspondent Gary Tuchman interviewed several audience members and found that none of their opinions about Trump had changed. One audience member even criticized CNN for focusing too much on the 2020 election rather than current issues.<\/p>\n<h3>Final Thoughts<\/h3>\n<p>While CNN&#8217;s decision to air a town hall with former President Donald Trump has sparked outrage from leftist critics, the network stands by its decision to hold the powerful accountable and arm voters with crucial information about Trump&#8217;s positions as he enters the 2024 election as the Republican frontrunner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airing a 2024 campaign town hall with former President Donald Trump earned CNN a wave of reprisals from leftist critics inside and outside the cable news network.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who has built a 13.4 million user following on Twitter, excoriated CNN during the Wednesday night event as anchor Kaitlan Collins\u00a0attempted to push back on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1929265,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4265,9373,9165,4717,9167,3634],"class_list":["post-1929264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-backlash","tag-cnn","tag-hall","tag-leftist","tag-town","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929264","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}