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TexasTowelie

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Sat May 13, 2023, 04:36 PM May 2023

Town Hall Audience Was Told They Were Not Allowed To Boo Trump - Farron Balanced



According to a member of the town hall audience that CNN used this past week, the audience members were NOT allowed to boo Donald Trump and were told that the only reaction that they were allowed to have was applause. This entire event was staged from the very start to make Trump look better and to avoid hurting his feelings, and it shows that CNN has absolutely no integrity left at their network. Farron Cousins explains what happened.


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*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos.

It's no secret that Donald Trump's c n n Town Hall this week was an absolute disaster for the United States. And of course, a disaster for c n Trump seemed to enjoy himself and, uh, the audience of course seemed to love everything that Donald Trump said. But now new evidence has emerged to suggest that maybe that audience didn't actually love everything Donald Trump said. It may be that they were literally instructed to love everything that Trump said, according to an individual who was actually present. That is exactly the instructions that CNN gave the audience they were specifically told. According to this person that was there, you're not allowed to boo. The only thing you are allowed to do is applaud the twice Impeached currently indicted, recently found liable for assault, former president of the United States. You can only applaud him. You cannot boo him when he lies to your face, which it literally only took seconds of him starting to talk where the lies started flowing.

All you can do is applaud. That's it. Let me read this. Um, when asked this from Raw story, when asked about whether there were ground rules for the audience, the individual presence stated that the network did some warmup with the audience ahead of time. That included the floor manager guiding spectators on how to respond and how not to respond. According to the interview, the floor manager came out ahead of time and said, please do not boo. Please be respectful. You were allowed to applaud. And I think that set the tone where people were trying to, were going to try their best to keep this between the navigational beacons, and that if they felt compelled to applaud, they would, but they weren't going to have an outburst or they weren't going to boo an answer. In other words, the deck was stacked in favor of Donald Trump.

Now, reports had surfaced prior to this town hall on Wednesday that CNN had handpicked 400 individuals to be in that audience that were all sympathetic to Trump. Most of them were people who had voted for Trump in at least one previous election. So you had an audience of Trump supporters, but I'm willing to bet, obviously you maybe had some independents who weren't too fond of him. You may even had some democrats and liberals and progressives in there. But the bulk of that audience, based on CNN handpicking these people, what they wanted were actual Trump supporters. That's what they did. And they had to give these guidelines. Don't boo him, don't hurt his little precious feelings. Be kind, be gentle. This poor little man here, he's had a rough week already. This is beyond disgusting. Like there are no journalistic standards at CNN

Anymore. I don't care what the situation is in the future. I am begging every single person watching this. Under no circumstances ever should you give your eyeballs to CNN ever again in the event. And I'll tell you how to avoid it. By the way, in the event, CNN is the only network that hosts a presidential debate or any kind of candidate debate in the future, your best bet will be to get on YouTube and find someone that is live streaming, live reactions to it. Uh, majority report typically does that. David PackMan usually does that. Uh, I believe Jesse do, Lamore does it quite frequently. And of course, t y t will usually do it as well among many, many, many, many others. So go watch it on there. Do not give CNN your eyeballs. They stack the deck. They told the audience to not make Donald Trump feel bad, even as he lied to their faces for 60 straight minutes. Trump loved it so much that according to reports on Friday, he's already trying to set up another one with cnn. That's how well it went for him. And if that happens, I am again begging you. Whatever you do, don't tune in to cnn.
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Town Hall Audience Was Told They Were Not Allowed To Boo Trump - Farron Balanced (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2023 OP
We must infiltrate these audiences. n/t Mr.Bill May 2023 #1
Man, they have figured out the secret... ret5hd May 2023 #2

ret5hd

(22,588 posts)
2. Man, they have figured out the secret...
Sat May 13, 2023, 04:51 PM
May 2023

to solving ALL of societies problems!

“You are not allowed to boo trump.”
“OK”

“You are not allowed to speed.”
“OK”

“You are not allowed to commit school shootings.”
“OK”

Why had they not tried this approach before???

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