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CNN:
Trump and the Town Hall — It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening. — Kaitlan Collins is as tough and knowledgable of an interviewer as they come. She fact-checked Trump throughout the 70-minute town hall.
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Axios:
Key takeaways from Trump's CNN town hall … - He inserted himself into the delicate negotiations over the debt ceiling and said congressional Republicans should let the U.S. government default unless Democrats agree to “massive” budget cuts. — He downplayed the potential fallout from a default …
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Rolling Stone:
‘F—king Disgrace’: CNN Gifts Trump Primetime Campaign Rally — Network insiders who spoke to Rolling Stone were distraught that the former president had free rein to “spew lies” during the ill-advised town hall — CNN INVITED DONALD Trump to lie on its airwaves for over an hour on Wednesday night.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
CNN town hall shows the network still doesn't know how to handle Donald Trump — CNN is trying to rebrand itself as a down-the-middle, facts-only network. — Trump's Wednesday town hall performance felt more like a rally than an attempt to keep him tethered to the truth.
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Politico:
Playbook: How Trump dominated CNN — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — TITLE 42 GETS EIGHTY-SIXED — NYT: “U.S. Warns Migrants Before End of Pandemic Restrictions That ‘Border Is Not Open’” ... WaPo: “Texas uses aggressive tactics to arrest migrants …
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John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
Entirely Unrepentant — “Our country is being destroyed by stupid people,” former President Donald Trump declared during a CNN town hall tonight, shortly after he endorsed defaulting on the national debt. — Trump remains without shame. Neither impeachment nor indictment nor arraignment nor …
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Darren Tome / CNN:
The chilling reality of Trump — CNN Opinion asked expert contributors to weigh in with their reactions to former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall on Wednesday night. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. — Paul Begala: Trump whined, griped and complained
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Moment That You Knew — Critics had worried that giving the indicted, twice-impeached, coup-plotting, chronically lying sexual predator an unedited, live television forum might turn out badly. — The reality, however, was far ghastlier: a sh*tshow for the ages, and a moment that captured …
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
CNN's Trump Town Hall: All Spectacle, No Sunlight — It's 2016 all over again. — (SCREENSHOT VIA CNN) — CNN's public argument for holding a New Hampshire town hall with former President Donald Trump boils down to this: Voters needed to hear from Trump directly because he is the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination.
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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Republicans By Naming Their 3 Basic Pillars — The House minority leader told MSNBC what the MAGA wing really believes. — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) put former President Donald Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party on blast …
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The Lincoln Project and New York Magazine
MSNBC:
Why CNN's Trump town hall was always doomed to fail — But truly, what did CNN or Kaitlan Collins think would happen? — “They learned nothing and forgot nothing.” — Those famous words have been attributed to the 19th century French diplomat Talleyrand, supposedly in reference to the Bourbon dynasty that replaced Napoleon.
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
The Lincoln Project Unloads On CNN For Malpractice In Normalizing Trump
The Lincoln Project Unloads On CNN For Malpractice In Normalizing Trump
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The Lincoln Project and Louder With Crowder
Rex Huppke / USA Today:
CNN town hall audience laughs at sexual assault as Trump reminds us how awful he is
CNN town hall audience laughs at sexual assault as Trump reminds us how awful he is
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN's Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump's election lies
CNN's Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump's election lies
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Mike Calia / CNBC:
Trump urges GOP to let catastrophic debt default happen if Dems don't accept cuts
Trump urges GOP to let catastrophic debt default happen if Dems don't accept cuts
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Wajahat Ali / The Daily Beast:
CNN Failed America With Its Train Wreck of a Trump Town Hall
CNN Failed America With Its Train Wreck of a Trump Town Hall
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Biden trolls Trump over CNN town hall
Biden trolls Trump over CNN town hall
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Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez on Trump town hall: ‘CNN should be ashamed of themselves’
Ocasio-Cortez on Trump town hall: ‘CNN should be ashamed of themselves’
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Pure Trump re-injected into the main vein of American politics at CNN town hall
Pure Trump re-injected into the main vein of American politics at CNN town hall
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Graeme Massie / The Independent:
'Putin's puppet' Trump refuses to say if Ukraine should win the war against Russia
'Putin's puppet' Trump refuses to say if Ukraine should win the war against Russia
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden — After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct. — Reporting from Washington
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Devan Markham / NewsNation:
Comer: Biden family received $10M from foreign nationals
Comer: Biden family received $10M from foreign nationals
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The wider House Oversight's net, the more often it catches Trump
The wider House Oversight's net, the more often it catches Trump
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Ben Terris / Politico:
The Drug-Fueled Protest in Dianne Feinstein's Office You Haven't Heard About — Tales of workplace woe from the underside of the nation's Capitol. — He wasn't supposed to be there, but he was wearing a suit and he still had his congressional employee badge.
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
The Tragicomedy of George Santos and the GOP — Also, understanding the crimes Santos is charged with — What is the worst fate that could befall a political party? Leaving Donald Trump (sexual assaulter, twice-impeached, insurrectionist, former president who badly lost his effort …
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New York Times:
The George Santos Indictment, Annotated
The George Santos Indictment, Annotated
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Joshua Zitser / Insider:
Justice Elena Kagan was worried about the ethics of accepting bagels from friends, while Clarence Thomas was enjoying expensive vacations paid for by a GOP megadonor: report — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan once turned down a care package of bagels and lox, per Forward.
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump gave prosecutors new evidence for all three ongoing criminal cases: experts — Legal experts believe that former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire gave fresh evidence to every one of the three ongoing criminal cases against him, reported Salon on Thursday.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin flirts with Iowa voters … But he's acting like it. … - Back in the Senate, he released a statement vowing to oppose all President Biden's EPA nominees over the administration's “radical climate agenda.” — Manchin's recent no-mercy campaign against Biden could be related …
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ProPublica:
Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man. Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage. — We obtained the NYPD's full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers.
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Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:
Texas Legislature passes bill allowing chaplains in public schools — The Texas state Capitol in Austin. Photo by Henry Dixon/Unsplash/Creative Commons — (RNS) — The Texas Legislature has passed a bill that would allow schools to employ chaplains in addition to school counselors …
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Michael Martina / Reuters:
Why the US delayed China sanctions after shooting down a spy balloon — When an alleged Chinese spy balloon traversed the United States in February, some U.S. officials were confident the incursion would galvanize the U.S. bureaucracy to push forward a slate of actions to counter China.
Hugo Bachega / BBC:
Zelensky says Ukraine needs more time for counter-offensive — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country needs more time to launch a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces, as the military awaits the delivery of promised aid.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects challenge to California pork industry restriction — A California animal welfare measure approved by voters requires pork producers to house pigs humanely. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a California animal welfare law …
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Juniour Khumalo / News24:
US ambassador says South Africa gave weapons, ammunition to Russia for Ukraine war — SUBSCRIBERS CAN LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE — The US says it believes ammunition was loaded on a Russian ship that docked in Simon's Town in December. — The US ambassador to SA said his government took the matter seriously.
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Gabby Arzola / CBS News:
'People aren't showing up to work,' South Florida workers already feeling heat of immigration bill — MIAMI - Construction workers say many employees have not showed up to work because they fear deportation. — Critics say Florida Senate Bill 1718 is to blame.
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