Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is pushing back on CNN CEO Chris Licht’s defense of the network’s handling of a town hall event with former President Trump this week. “Making news” is not the same as covering news. When one wishes to become a participant in events (ie. “making” news), they become the story and sacrifice the pretense of a neutral observer,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a tweet on Thursday. “Also no one got answers. It was 70 mins of steamrolled propaganda, esp on abortion & SA.” The Democratic congresswoman was responding...

Already under fire from leftists over having platformed former President Donald Trump for a town hall, CNN is now facing backlash from conservatives over the town hall being chockablock with bias and false so-called “facts.” Speaking on a CNN panel late Wednesday, shortly after the town hall concluded, Rep. Byron Donalds in particular slammed the network over the event’s moderator Kaitlan Collins’ biased line of questioning toward the former president. “Town halls are for the voters, not for the press. Not for the person who’s the moderator. Kaitlan spent more...

If there is such a thing as a silver lining to the predictable, entirely-avoidable disaster of CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump, it is that he laid bare—as he always does—the cynical void at the center of the GOP. For months, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his cast of far-right allies have been performing a principled stand on the debt ceiling, insisting that they are responsible, good-faith actors who have been jerked around by President Joe Biden—putting the nation’s economic security into jeopardy. But with one exchange Wednesday night, Trump...

President Trump returned to CNN on Wednesday night after a long absence. The legacy media outlet was hoping to ruin the former president once and for all following the months of negative headlines and deep state smears. Instead, President Trump steam-rolled “nasty” CNN host Kaitlan Collins and revived his campaign. All of her interruptions could not stop President Trump from steamrolling the bitter liberal host. Anti-Trumper heads were exploding. It was so bad the network cut the town hall short by twenty minutes. This was not a good night for...

Airing a 2024 campaign town hall with former President Donald Trump earned CNN a wave of reprisals from leftist critics inside and outside the cable news network. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who has built a 13.4 million user following on Twitter, excoriated CNN during the Wednesday night event as anchor Kaitlan Collins attempted to push back on some of Trump’s assertions about the Capitol riot, “rigged” election claims, and more. “CNN should be ashamed of themselves. They have lost total control of this ‘town hall’ to again be manipulated into...

Former President Donald Trump said CNN is “rightfully desperate” to get high ratings by holding a town hall with him Wednesday night. The former president will participate in a New Hampshire town hall, which has raised eyebrows on both sides of the political aisle, with CNN anchor and former Daily Caller reporter Kaitlan Collins. Trump explained his reasoning in a Wednesday video statement for doing a CNN interview. “I’ll be doing CNN tonight live from the great state of New Hampshire because CNN is rightfully desperate to get those fantastic...

Calls to boycott CNN have intensified after the media company said that Donald Trump will be joining the news network's prime-time town hall on Wednesday night. This is only a day after the former president was found liable by a New York jury for sexual abuse and defamation against writer E. Jean Carroll. Back in 2019, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, Carroll said Trump raped her in the dressing room of a New York department store in 1996. The Republican denied any wrongdoing, calling Carroll a "liar"—an accusation...

'Here we go again': Critics decry CNN's decision to air Trump town hall in N.H. Former President Donald Trump will return to New Hampshire on Wednesday evening for a CNN town hall. The event has sparked controversy among many Democrats, student groups and media watchers, who are criticizing the network for giving such a platform to Trump, who has a long record of spreading lies. The event represents a reunion between Trump — who's been limiting his appearances to conservative media outlets — and CNN, which stopped airing his events...