Former President Donald Trump on Sunday stated that aid CNN’s Kaitlan Collins was “not exactly Barbara Walters” during last week’s town hall.
Questions were raised when Trump was found liable of sexual abuse one day before the town hall – prompting concern over whether it was appropriate to host an event publicising the former president – and continued when Trump appeared to use the event as a defacto campaign rally to spew bile and make false statements.
The former president’s reference to the pioneering TV journalist Walters, who died at the end of 2022, continued his Jekyll-and-Hyde regard for Collins, who moderated his first on-air appearance on CNN in years.He called her a “nasty person” as she pressed for an answer to a question, but later told her she did a “good job.”
In between, he interrupted Collins, regurgitated lies about the 2020 election, dodged questions, steamrolled fact-checks and remained antagonistic.
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Donald Trump recently posted the following on Truth Social:
“It’s really amazing to watch the head of CNN get absolutely lambasted for asking me to do a so-called Town Hall. In all fairness, nobody had any problems with what he wanted to do until after the show started, when they quickly realized that Ms. Collins was not exactly Barbara Walters, or even close. That’s when the trouble from the Radical Left started.”
Trump then went after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) who joined the chorus of disapproval over CNN giving Trump such a platform.
“Neurotic little AOC with the bad looking boyfriend, went crazy. He owns CNN, he’s in their head,” they screamed. CNN, take the GREAT RATINGS!”
