Donald Trump did a CNN townhall last night. And it was a classic.

[WhiteTara]

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Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump sat down with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night in Wisconsin to answer questions about everything from his campaign manager being charged with battery earlier in the day to his stance on NATO to whether he should take cues from his sons when it comes to temperament. Trump was positively Trumpian at all times. The transcript is below. I annotated it using Genius. To see an annotation, click or tap the highlighted part of the transcript; if you would like to leave your own annotations, make sure you have a Genius account.



Read this entire transcript and you will see that either of our candidates will be better than this. This guy is an absolute no nothing phony and a nightmare. Please vote blue!

[Johonny]

1. The best exchange of the night that sums up Trump and his supporters

TRUMP: But look at what she says. Michelle Fields, who, by the way, is not a baby. OK? In her own worlds, exactly. "I was jolted backwards." Well, she's standing there. "Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm." Tightly. "And yanked me down." She wasn't yanked down. She was - like, she didn't even have any expression. If somebody in this audience gets whacked, or gets hurt, including me, you get hit a little bit. You go, ow. There's no emotion.

OK, wait a minute. "I almost fell to the ground." I almost fell to the ground; she didn't almost fall to the ground. He got in her way. And by the way, she was grabbing me! Am I supposed to press charges against her? Oh, my arm is hurting.

COOPER: You've suggested you might --

TRUMP: Excuse me, excuse me! I didn't suggest.

COOPER: Oh, yeah, you did.

TRUMP: I tweeted. No, no, I tweeted.

COOPER: A tweet is a suggestion.

TRUMP: Should I press charges?

COOPER: Are you going to?

TRUMP: Sure! I don't know. Maybe I should, right? Because you know what?

(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)

Trump talks into a loop that Anderson jumps on. Then claims he didn't do it. Then says he OK he did but it was a tweet! Then confirms he might do it anyways. He claims to be above it all, gets caught in the lie, lies about it, then reaffirms his lie and follows it up by making a firm decision to not decide. That sums up Trumps whole mentality. His audience cheers him because they apparently are brain dead.

[WhiteTara]

5. He's terrifying. nt

[hamsterjill]

2. Trump sat down to answer questions????

"Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump sat down with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night in Wisconsin to answer questions..."

The man hasn't answered a question during the entire campaign. Trump talks over anyone who asks him a question, says the same things over and over and over again, and uses the loudest tone in the room to intimidate. I have yet to hear Trump honestly and actually ANSWER a question.

[WhiteTara]

4. LEt's say he sat down and talked. nt

[0rganism]

3. the pen is mightier than the sword

Trump: She had a pen in her hand, which could have been a knife, it could have been just a pen, which is very dangerous. She should not have been doing that.