{"id":1930185,"date":"2023-05-13T05:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T09:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-defends-hosting-trump-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T05:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T09:27:00","slug":"cnn-defends-hosting-trump-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-defends-hosting-trump-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN defends Trump Town Hall hosting."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fcnn-defends-hosting-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=1930185&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 Defends Decision to Host Trump Town Hall<\/h2>\n<p>CNN\u2019s decision to host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-katie-hobbs-refuses-to-debate-gops-kari-lake-in-arizona-governor-race\/\" title=\"Democrat Katie Hobbs Refuses to Debate GOP\u2019s Kari Lake in Arizona Governor Race\"><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>-style interview<\/a> with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-commuting-his-sentence-ca-gov-newsom-reverses-parole-for-convicted-double-murderer\/\" title=\"After Commuting His Sentence, CA Gov. Newsom Reverses Parole For Convicted Double Murderer\">sparked controversy<\/a>, with many Democrats criticizing the network for giving him a platform. However, CNN\u2019s on-air personalities are defending the move.<\/p>\n<h3>Anderson Cooper Addresses Criticisms<\/h3>\n<p>Anderson Cooper addressed the criticisms in the opening monologue of his show on Thursday night. While he validated many of the criticisms the network had faced, he also presented the town hall as a valuable moment for understanding Trump\u2019s position as a 2024 presidential candidate and the people who agree with him.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooper criticized Trump for describing the officer who claimed responsibility for fatally shooting an unarmed demonstrator on Jan. 6, 2021, as \u201ca thug\u201d during Wednesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tv-network-ratings-drop-during-bidens-first-full-week-in-office\/\" title=\"TV Network Ratings Drop During Biden\u2019s First Full Week in Office\">town hall event<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cooper also criticized Trump for calling moderator Kaitlan Collins \u201ca nasty person\u201d after she repeatedly spoke over him as he described his handling of classified documents.<\/li>\n<li>Cooper said viewers may have also been upset to see the live audience members at the town hall event cheering Trump on through several contentious moments in the interview.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite these criticisms of Trump, Cooper warned critics that their disdain for CNN hosting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-defends-hosting-trump-town-hall\/\" title=\"CNN defends Trump Town Hall hosting.\">town hall event won\u2019<\/a>t make Trump go away.<\/p>\n<h3>Kaitlan Collins Presents Town Hall as \u201cMajor Inflection Point\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>In a primetime appearance on Thursday night, Kaitlan Collins presented the CNN town hall in similar terms as Cooper, describing the event as a \u201cmajor inflection point in the Republican party\u2019s search for its next nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the decision to host Trump has been controversial, CNN\u2019s on-air personalities are defending the move as a valuable opportunity to understand the former president\u2019s position and the people who support him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s on-air personalities are defending the network\u2019s decision to host a town hall-style interview with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night. While many Republicans and conservatives cheered on Trump\u2019s performance on the stage, numerous Democrat politicians criticized the cable news network for giving him such a platform. For instance, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) posted\u00a0that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1930186,"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":[543],"tags":[9373,4549,9165,10641,9167,3634],"class_list":["post-1930185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-cnn","tag-defends","tag-hall","tag-hosting","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\/1930185","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\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}