Under a law passed last year in New York that allows sexual abuse survivors to sue their abusers in civil court even after the criminal statute of limitations has passed, a jury has found former President Donald to be liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll at a department store in the 1990s. After just three hours of deliberations, the jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million. Following the ruling, Trump appeared in a televised town hall on CNN, where he mocked E. Jean Carroll while the Republican audience...

Welcome to Trail Mix, a fun but nutritious snack for your election news diet. See something interesting on the trail? Email me at [email protected]. This week, we dive into the messy aftermath of Donald Trump’s CNN town hall and some shifting vibes around gun control on the trail in New Hampshire. He came, he saw, he steamrolled When the lights finally dimmed on Donald Trump’s CNN town hall Wednesday night, a few things were clear. The former president didn’t put forward a vision for his 2024 campaign. He largely ignored...

No, CNN’s Trump town hall was not cut short, it actually ran overtime FILE - Former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally, Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. The Associated Press on Thursday, May 11, 2023 reported on false claims circulating on social media that CNN cut short its primetime town hall with former President Donald Trump this week. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) FILE - Former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally, Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. The Associated Press on Thursday, May...

Commentators across the political spectrum have finally found something they can agree on: CNN's Wednesday town hall with former president Donald Trump was a disaster for the network. Even CNN's own Oliver Darcy joined the pile-on, packaging up a self-own of backlash in his Thursday morning media newsletter. Trump won the night, and his longtime frenemy CNN lost, bigly, Darcy reported. Trump's many critics in the media were already mad about the event before it happened, especially at MSNBC. But CNN—desperate to reverse the ongoing collapse of its ratings since...

Mainstream journalists slammed CNN for its May 10 town hall with former President Donald Trump, who lied throughout the event without adequate fact-checking. Just one day after he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll (and subsequently attacked her on Truth Social), Trump spouted lie after lie at CNN’s live event. While host Kaitlan Collins struggled to fact-check him, the heavily Republican audience cheered on the former president, applauding after he joked about sexual assault, lied about the 2020 election, and called Collins “a nasty person.”...

CNN took a rare ratings victory in prime time Wednesday night, with the network’s town hall featuring former President Donald Trump drawing 3.1 million viewers, according to early overnight Nielsen ratings. From 8 p.m. t0 9:15 p.m., CNN was the most-watched cable news network, more than doubling the ratings of Fox News (1.4 million viewers) and MSNBC (1.37 million viewers). CNN held on to first place into the 9 p.m. ET hour, with an average audience of 2.03 million viewers, just ahead of Fox News Channel’s 1.93 million viewers and...

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a CNN Town Hall with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on May 10, 2023, in a still from video. (CNN/Screenshot via The Epoch Times) Lawmakers and political insiders had a wide range of reactions to former President Donald Trump’s participation in a Town Hall event hosted by CNN. Trump’s May 10 appearance at the New Hampshire event allowed the candidate to present his plan for the country as he wades deeper into his 2024 presidential campaign. Many Republicans congratulated...

Media analysts, observers, and politicians alike were withering in their denunciation of CNN for holding the “town hall” event in front of an apparently pro-Trump crowd, calling the decision “profoundly irresponsible” and “disgraceful.” They argued that giving Trump the opportunity to repeatedly spread misinformation and air past grievances was profoundly damaging for both journalism and democracy.

During a contentious CNN town hall Wednesday night, former President Donald Trump dug in on his lies about the 2020 election, downplayed the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, and repeatedly insulted the woman whom a civil jury this week found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming. Trump, returning to the network after years of acrimony, also refused to say whether he wants Ukraine to win the war against Russian aggression and said the U.S. “might as well” default on its debt obligation, despite the potentially devastating economic consequences. The...

During the New York Democratic leader’s weekly press conference, Mr. Jeffries referred to the Wednesday night program of GOP primary voters in New Hampshire, moderated by host Kaitlan Collins, as a “so-called town hall meeting.” “It would be a very dangerous, devastating and destructive thing if Donald Trump got anywhere close to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” Mr. Jeffries said when asked about the possibility of Mr. Trump being re-elected to office. “And exhibit A, for the trauma that the American people will experience if that were to happen, were his own...