CNN Trump Town Hall Recap

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1. Pretty wild to watch journalists still congratulate each other for getting steamrolled by Trump on national television seven years into an era of journalists getting steamrolled by Trump on national television.

   — Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) May 11, 2023

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   1. Props to Charlie Brown who was in an impossible situation handling his misalignment with gravity in a professional manner. It's very difficult to attempt kicking a football when you know Lucy is gonna pull it away at the last second. He's a true pro and a stellar football kicker.

      — Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) May 11, 2023

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2. Trump is not a normal candidate. He is an authoritarian who would destroy our democracy. If the media doesn’t get that, they have no business reporting.

   — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 11, 2023

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3. contra cnn, chris licht (and the rest of the mainstream media), covering donald trump is not "hard." it is not hard at all. i and my colleagues, current and former, at @AmerIndependent have done it for years.

   the trick is doing it without appeasing bullshit.

   — Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 11, 2023

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   1. when he says racist, sexist, bigoted bullshit, we just say "he said a bigoted thing." when he goes off on a dumbass tangent, we say "he said some dumb shit." we don't say how it plays with bigots or that it was "colorful." we just say what the fuck he said and use the truth.

      — Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 11, 2023

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4. No, @CNN, America is *not* well served by giving a sexual predator a prominent platform to mock one of his victims (to giddy laughter and applause) the day after a jury unanimously found him liable for both maliciously defaming and sexually assaulting her. https://t.co/KjGPU5OnXc

   — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) May 11, 2023

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5. Who is the celebrity guest on next week’s episode of CNN’s new show “Applaud a Sexual Predator”?

   — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) May 11, 2023

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6. What we saw was engineered by Chris Licht who knows he hasn’t long to go if he doesn’t turn CNN’s numbers around fast. Last night was putting shareholders profits over democracy. A common syndrome but one that is killing our republic. Stop.

   — NoelCaslerComedy🌙 (@caslernoel) May 11, 2023

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7. Dear CNN: You know all the shame and depression you're feeling now–even though you're trying to talk past it by touting your (trivial) successes in the course of this debacle? *You could have avoided all this.* The best thing now is for everyone who said yes to this to resign.

   — Mike Godwin (@sfmnemonic) May 11, 2023

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   1. I'll repeat this part–organizationally and individually, CNN leadership must immediately and proactively say this was a horrible mistake, corrosive to democracy, that CNN could have avoided had they not been presumed that they know best and could contain and contextualize Trump.

      — Mike Godwin (@sfmnemonic) May 11, 2023

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