'Irresponsible' CNN accused of packing Trump town hall with 400 'sympathetic' voters

[UCmeNdc]

CNN supports Trump return to power!

Popular Information writer Judd Legum reported that the 400 members of Wednesday's town hall would be supportive of the Republican Party.

"The audience for the CNN townhall w/Trump will be 400 Republicans & GOP-leaning independents," Legum wrote on Twitter.

No Democratic voters were allowed to attend!

https://www.rawstory.com/cnn-town-hall/?cx_testId=6&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=0&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I#cxrecs_s

[JohnSJ]

1. Lemons are sour, sugar is sweet, color me surprised

[debm55]

2. Me too.

[eggplant]

63. He sure is!

:rimshot:

[lame54]

3. Town halls are supposed to represent the local community...

Not be hand picked stooges

[Blue Owl]

7. No kidding -- Town Hall my ass

[usaf-vet]

53. My email box is filled everyday with emails that start out "we want your opinion" will you fill....

..... out the questionnaire?

They are all from the same designer. 6-8 yes or no questions.

With the last ALWAYS, are you willing to donate? YES is the only option.

If you push the SUBMIT button, it goes directly to the donate screen.

I suspect they don't give a s**t about my yes or no answer; they just WANT $$$$$.

So my response to every one of these is. REPORT THEM AS SPAM.

[Freethinker65]

4. How is this not a multimillion dollar campaign contribution from CNN to Trump?

[chowder66]

17. +1

[intheflow]

27. God, I'd love to see that case brought forward!

This is a perversion of the fourth estate, the First Amendment, and democracy.

[housecat]

28. No kidding. Looks like 2015/16 all over again. Can we please stop it now?

[hibbing]

44. Sadly, it will continue n/t

[Blue Owl]

5. Is the Town Hall Masher expected to show up?

[TheBlackAdder]

64. IDK, but would this be considered a campaign contribution?

[LoisB]

6. Well, of course. Having Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents would not be "fair" to

tRump and we all know how much he needs "fairness" where he is concerned. CNN must be mindful of tRump's feelings.

[agingdem]

13. Kaitlan Collins is a Tucker Carlson Daily Caller acolyte...

she intends to humanize an amoral malicious lying sexual predator, so she's stacking the audience with Trump-humpers, much like a Trump's crowd masturbation Nazi rally...both Trump and Collins should feel very much at home..

[LoisB]

15. It will be a virtual public fellatio fest.

[Celerity]

18. Tongue-bathe the mushroom 👅🍄

[NJCher]

22. I remember that

Damn was that funny.

Remember how Stormy said tilt it toward me so I can see the angle at which I originally saw it?

Thought I'd die laughing.

None of my friends watch tv and they sometimes make fun of me because I do, but it has its moments and this was one of them.

[LoisB]

38. LOL!!!! I had not seen this. Hilarious.

[Sky Jewels]

21. She makes me sick. Trump used to attack her viciously a few years ago.

And now she's another fascist enabler.

I used to be impressed with her. That's over.

[sheshe2]

8. Of course they did.

It is a ‘Political Rally.’

[Faux pas]

9. They

lost me the minute they got the new ceo.

[Takket]

10. Why don't they just line up 400 prostitutes to give him blow jobs?

That is what this is about isn’t it? All gop supporters, prime time town hall with no other candidates, national audience, “presidential” used in title. None of these things indicate this is an event designed to give voters an unbiased and professionally conducted town hall.

[atreides1]

12. They wouldn't!

If they did then Chris Licht, wouldn't have anything to do!

[SouthernDem4ever]

46. ROFL

Sadly might be true but funny

[Hieronymus Phact]

58. Remind people of this

If they mention the "Liberal Media".

[spanone]

11. Call it what it is.....A trmp rally. Nothing more.

[Midnight Writer]

14. Remember the day, Keith Olberman was fired for contributing privately to a Democrat?

They used to call it "journalistic ethics", or something like that.

[niyad]

90. I remember.

[senseandsensibility]

16. The formal is a real problem

and a gift to trump.

[ashredux]

19. Well, a Townhall? I guess there is a hall of sorts..... I expected more from CNN

[Sky Jewels]

20. Fuck Chris Licht, fuck John Malone, and fuck CNN.

We're done with that network in our house. We used to have it on a lot -- a lot! -- especially during the pandemic. ... No more.

[DENVERPOPS]

29. Yea, no shit SJ

CNN is in hopes of pirating all of the Fox viewers now that Fox has been publicly disgraced..............

[Sky Jewels]

33. And they started with that lousy plan even before the Dominion case was hitting on all cylinders.

I think they sampled their own product and convinced themselves there was going to be a big red wave -- that they would help create, of course. They thought they'd be sitting pretty with access to the giant Republican majority (that never materialized, of course).

[DENVERPOPS]

73. I have noticed for quite some time

people often ask "Why isn't the Media Covering this"............

Those people don't even begin to understand that 85+% of ALL MEDIA IN THE U.S. is owned and operated by Uber rich Republicans....

I expect that will not change, and the Overwhelming Republican Dominated Media will only intensify their efforts in the next months leading up to the elections in 2024..............

Katie Bar The Door.................

I keep repeating my thought on the Perfect Title for a book on the last 40+ years: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT

Or thinking that many are walking down the jungle path, swatting at mosquitoes and oblivious to the herd of charging elephants....

[Sky Jewels]

77. So true.

Right leaning corporations are gonna push right leaning propaganda to further their own interests.

[DENVERPOPS]

79. I honestly

continue to think that people don't realize we are one millimeter away from a Corporate Fascist Tyranny........

The simplest definition of Fascism is a merging of Corporations and Government.......

The only thing Orwell had wrong, was it wasn't the Government we had to worry about....It was the Corporations and Uber wealthy.

The Republican Party is hell bent to take us back to the Great Depression and to the Gilded Age..............The concentration of wealth by the few, and zero regulations to hinder them.............

Having watched all this for many decades, If I hadn't witnessed it I wouldn't believe what is happening since 1980.....

[SouthernDem4ever]

23. It's a Drumpf Infomercial.

CNN is the new Fux Nooze

[NJCher]

24. otoh

trump is our best bet for a Democratic presidency.

If he's the GOP nominee, CNN is actually giving us a present.

[Whiskeytide]

54. I remember saying that hundreds of times in ...

2016. I grossly underestimated the magat movement.

I know things are different now. I do genuinely believe he’s unelectable. But, …

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. CNN will only have MAGAnuts/TFG supporters in this townhall

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Cha]

52. TY.. would DT have it any other way?

Fuck CNN!!

[Johonny]

26. Will the other GOP candidates sue for equal time

It does feel like they're being biased here.

[lpbk2713]

30. DeShithead will be whining.

"What about ME!!"

[onenote]

91. Based on what law?

[Johonny]

92. Do you need a law in GOPland?

You're never going to file the suit. You're just going to threaten. Or in Tim Scott's case say your going to look into having senate hearings on whether these lopsided news event constitute campaign finance violations etc . . . The point is to get the message out, CNN is biasing the GOP race. Commie CNN is trying to pick our candidate before many have even declared.

This would happen if I thought any of the declared candidates were actually running for anything but VP. We know their not seriously running because they've said nothing about the sexual assault case, nothing about the felony trial, nothing period for the most part. You don’t let the person you're running against get this much free air time, without complaining and using what potical power you have to try to force yourself on the air too. These people aren’t running. At the moment Trump is essentially running unopposed for the GOP nomination. It is early yet, but I think even DeSantis may never declare. The race might be over.

[onenote]

97. Looks like you knew the answer to your question before you asked it

[LPBBEAR]

31. Heres hoping

a few of the Trump voting attendees were Covid positive. Pack em in CNN....pack em in.

[Geechie]

32. Difficult to find CNN's biggest sponsors, but

Pfizer & Geico are up there. Anybody have better luck finding up-to-date info on who might be susceptible to boycott?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

34. CNN didn't "just announce" that the audience would be Republicans and Republican-leaning

independents. That was always the plan.

How about if we see how it goes? I think Trump has likely fallen into a trap myself.

[FoxNewsSucks]

37. Wow. Some just can't stop the self-flagellation.

The announcement was recently made, therefore, they "just" now announced the makeup of the friendly audience of the GIANT FAVOR they are doing for a SEXUAL PREDATOR and TRAITOR.

There is no excuse for being OK with that. None at all.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

40. False claims. Trump is his own worst enemy.

Witness the deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case. He goes off-script and hurts himself.

We will see just how "friendly" this audience is in a few hours.

There is no excuse for insulting fellow Democrats over a program which has not even aired and having a difference of opinion over "sunlight being the best disinfectant."

Many were wrong about 60 Minutes having a profile on MTG. That was a brutal take down.

I highly doubt this will amount to a "favor" to Trump, but we will soon find out.

[FoxNewsSucks]

41. False claims? Look no further than your own post(s)

MF45 was deposed by a competent attorney in "enemy" territory. The CNN shitshow will be a friendly place for him, full of hand-selected republicon voters.

I'm sure no "fellow Democrats" were insulted.

That was absolutely NOT a brutal takedown of the filthy liar Greene, it wasn't a takedown at all. Please spend some time on YouTube watching Democrats do actual takedowns of republicons, the difference is clear.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

45. Trump shot off his mouth because he was not prepared.

The man is lazy and morally bankrupt.

The best way to defeat him is to have him speak.

Wanna bet that that he's asked about the findings in this and other cases?

You seem to have more confidence in Donald J Trump's ability to answer question in front of an audience than I do.

YouTube? LOL

Name calling and hair on fire hystronics doesn't work as a tactic with most reality-based life-forms. Sorry. That's not how to win support (or elections) in this country.

I'm looking forward to seeing Trump implode tonight.

[FoxNewsSucks]

55. "The best way to defeat him is to have him speak. "

Yeah. If only someone had let him speak in 2016, we might have learned how he likes to grab women by the pussy. Or we might have seen him mock a disabled reporter. Oh wait, they DID let him speak. Media, including CNN, fell to their knees giving him all the airtime he wanted and more. So eager, they showed empty podiums instead of his opponents' (primary AND general) speeches.

You can't just "let him speak". He took out all his republicon challengers and came close enough to Clinton to be able to steal it.

You seem to doubt MF45's ability to mesmerize the cult. This will be just like one of his rallies. He's not gonna get any uncomfortable questions or pushback.

What's wrong with YouTube? There are so many good videos of Democrats kicking republicon ass. Here's one to start

Many more of Raskin making a fool of Boobert. And of Gym Jordan. I can't imagine why anyone on this site wouldn't want to watch videos like that.

Unless one just doesn't want to admit they were wrong and that Leslie Stahl basically fluffed MF45.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

59. In 2016 the Democratic nominee was sabotaged by forces on the left who didn't vote, or

who voted Green. That's how Trump got elected. Perfidy. I won't forget.

Basta!

Lesley Stahl did the nation a service exposing Rep. Greene to a large 60 Minutes audience.

[FoxNewsSucks]

62. Wrong.

Good day.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

65. Bwaahaahaaa.

We remember.

[FoxNewsSucks]

66. I SAID GOOD DAY!!!

[Just A Box Of Rain]

68. This sort of response is stale as well as rude.

[Sky Jewels]

80. Serious question for you (I'm not being facetious):

Are you on CNN's payroll?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

81. Suggesting that I have ulterior motives is a violation for the TOS.

[FoxNewsSucks]

100. Why couldn't you just answer the question?

Is there something wrong with being a CNN employee that would make such a question an insult or put-down? For you to immediately squawk about TOS means you must think working at CNN is bad or somehow demeaning.

Is it?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

101. Nope. CNN made the right call doing this Town Hall.

Trump damaged his campaign, just as I expected he would. The man can't help himself.

Group-thing has once again failed.

[FoxNewsSucks]

103. Then why such hostility that someone asked if you're a CNN employee, if

there's nothing offensive, rude, degrading, or demeaning about working there? Why immediately jump to TOS??

[GuppyGal]

82. Do you watch CNN? Actually you don't have to answer it's obvious you don't.

GROUPTHINK GROUPTOLD GROUPDO

[Demsrule86]

85. What you say is true. And we won't forget...And just for a final thought... Fuck the Greens!!!

Green stands for 'get republicans elected every November.

[dwayneb]

98. This is true

When 1/3 to 1/2 the voting population does not even bother to go to the polls, what do you expect? This is how he won in 2016, and how he came so close in 2020. Remains to be seen if people will be as ambivalent in 2024, I am betting they won't be. With January 6th and the abortion ruling as headwinds, Trump does not stand a chance of re-election.

As far as CNN doing this stunt? I am not surprised, remember the infotainment outlets are there to chase the almighty $$$ no matter how much blood is dripping from them.

[progressoid]

61. +1

[Kid Berwyn]

35. Then Time to Boycott CNN

And its advertisers, affiliates and supporters.

[SouthernDem4ever]

56. No problem with that here

I am already practicing this.

[spanone]

36. IT'S NOTHING SHORT OF A TRUMP RALLY

[Just A Box Of Rain]

60. And you "know this" how?

The program hasn't even aired yet. LOL

[spanone]

86. Check it out.

[Ray Bruns]

39. Is there anyone on this site who believed this would be anything more

Than a Donnie Dumbshit ball fluffing event?

Anyone? Anyone?

Bueller?

[haele]

42. Well, Trump wouldn't attend if there were any critics anyway.

So I don't see why this makes it anymore of a politically motivated travesty of "journalism" that it already is.

Haele

[mountain grammy]

43. Town Hall.. yeah trumptown..

[cab67]

47. I'd watch it...

...if there's a laugh track included.

[Vinca]

48. Kaitlin Collins can either make her career or watch it crash and burn. If she allows

a love fest to ensue, she will have lost all credibility.

[moniss]

49. I thought some folks might like what I posted

so I brought it over.

"You know this was the only way the Orange Ruski would agree to do this. Watch and see if he doesn't get a standing ovation either at the beginning, end or both.

CNN will probably run promos for their new upcoming shows like "From Under the Hood" with host David Duke, "Revising History" with host Ron DeSantis, "Too Busy to Care" with host Greg Abbott and a new prime-time game show "The Price is Right....Justice Style" hosted by Clarence Thomas where rich people appear as contestants and various judges are shown in different "showcase" settings and the contestants have to guess how much it will take to buy each judge in each different scenario. The winner is the one who buys the biggest number of judges/scenarios and does so for the lowest cost."

[FoxNewsSucks]

67. True.

It's obvious to anyone paying attention.

[yardwork]

50. This is disgusting,

[Cha]

51. JHC CNN PROPAGANDA BULLSHIT!

[LisaM]

57. Maybe it will backfire.

Those with the stomach to watch (who aren't MAGA) may be completely turned off. And Trump could very well let loose with some ridiculous garbage that can be used as campaign fodder against him.

We shall see, but that's my hope.

[IronLionZion]

69. CNN trying to steal market share from Fox News?

Tucker's idiotic viewers might be up for grabs

[GoodRaisin]

94. Could be Trump's looking for a new network

if Fox is getting behind different candidate/s.

[barbtries]

70. well fuck CNN!

these motherfuckers.

[cilla4progress]

71. They are making a mockery of this country

and all of us.

[Artcatt]

72. Don't believe for 0.01 seconds that corporations won't step on our necks for $

[Marthe48]

74. I won't watch it

I don't bother watching cnn anyway. They aren't the same trusted source of info they used to be. Not interested in hearing what their wolves in sheep clothing have to say about anything.

[Martin68]

75. If true, this is a travesty. A made-for-TV campaign event for Trump, sponsored by CNN.

[LAS14]

76. Where are the other GOP contenders??? If it's supposed to be...

... a town hall for the GOP primary, where are they??????? What happened? Were they invited and they declined????

[Just_Vote_Dem]

84. Nah, it's a Trump "special"

designed to try and raise the ratings of the lowest-rated news channel.

[wryter2000]

78. Jesus

How low can they go?

[Liberal In Texas]

83. There's no doubt that he wouldn't have agreed to do it without a guarantee that there

would only be fan-boys and fan-girls and he would only get soft-ball questions that have already been vetted by him.

[UTUSN]

87. K&R

[Xoan]

88. Chris Licht has long been ...

keen on talk show audiences being fans of the main act.

[Skittles]

89. CNN is long dead to me

FUCK them

[Initech]

93. I haven't watched network news in 10+ years. Don't miss it one bit.

[dwayneb]

99. Smart man

I watch headlines on occasion, or if they are covering some event live on scene. They are pretty much useless beyond that just a bunch of talking heads pandering to viewers.

[Straw Man]

95. And one of the post-debacle talking heads ...

... had the gall to suggest that Biden wouldn't dare to do a similar town hall on Fox. What utter bullshit. If you guaranteed him an audience of all Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, of course he'd do it. And he'd shine.

If Trump had faced a mixed audience, he probably would've been booed off the stage. I'm certain that the "friendly audience" was a stipulation of his participation.

[FoxNewsSucks]

102. They wouldn't even have to do that.

Biden would face a hostile audience and kick their asses.

[Cha]

96. CNN Sponsored Domestic Terrorist Rally.