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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,509 posts)
Thu May 11, 2023, 08:58 PM May 2023

Hello, He Lied: CNN Goes After Trump Lovers - and Fox Viewers - With a Fabrication-Filled Town Hall

It took Donald Trump just about three minutes to start spewing lies on CNN’s Wednesday night Town Hall. And he didn’t stop until 70 minutes later.

He lied about election fraud. He lied about the Jan. 6 insurrection. He lied about his border wall, about Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine (claiming he could end the war “in one day”), about the purloined classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and about E. Jean Carroll, the woman whom he sexually assaulted back in the 1990s and whom, just the day before, a jury in New York had awarded five million of Trump’s dollars in a civil defamation suit.

None of it was in the least bit surprising. Trump lies. That’s what he does.

What was surprising, a little shocking and certainly disappointing, was the venue in which Trump spun his fabrications. It was CNN, not Fox, that had invited the twice-impeached, soon-to-be-indicted ex-president onto its airwaves for an evening of perfidious pontification. The same CNN that Trump had once dubbed the “enemy of the people” and that he had tried to ban from White House press briefings because of its once-unflinching pushback against his endless mendacities.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hello-lied-cnn-goes-trump-131500651.html

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Hello, He Lied: CNN Goes After Trump Lovers - and Fox Viewers - With a Fabrication-Filled Town Hall (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2023 OP
Didn't know CNN is still on the air. InAbLuEsTaTe May 2023 #1
CNN schizophrenic daily opinion whiplash is making me thirsty! Alexander Of Assyria May 2023 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author GuppyGal May 2023 #3
Actually normalizing dump with a fawning audience is serving the RW Doc Sportello May 2023 #4
what is BS? That they gave a known rapist, insurrectionist a platform to normalize criminal behavior PortTack May 2023 #5
LOL SpamWyzer May 2023 #6

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Doc Sportello

(7,554 posts)
4. Actually normalizing dump with a fawning audience is serving the RW
Thu May 11, 2023, 09:35 PM
May 2023

And the apologists are the ones spinning BS. Watching CNN doesn't prove anything. I'm more inclined to listen to officer Fanone and rape victims who have decried the stunt.

PortTack

(32,825 posts)
5. what is BS? That they gave a known rapist, insurrectionist a platform to normalize criminal behavior
Thu May 11, 2023, 09:56 PM
May 2023
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