CNN’s controversial stay city corridor with Donald Trump was blasted by its personal anchors on air and slammed by insiders on the information community.
The former president used the Wednesday night time occasion in New Hampshire to once more push his debunked 2020 election lies and conspiracy theories. He additionally refused to say he supported Ukraine.
Mr Trump’s bombastic efficiency in entrance of an viewers of 400 Republicans and GOP-leaning independents was broadly panned for giving him a platform to push his fraudulent claims.
And it didn’t go unnoticed by the CNN hosts who went on air after the city corridor, hosted by Kaitlan Collins, ended.
“He called a Black law enforcement officer a thug. He said people here in Washington, DC, and Chinatown don’t speak English. He attacked Kaitlan (Collins) as a nasty woman… he made fun of (E Jean Carrol’s) sexual assault and many in the audience laughed,” said Jake Tapper to Anderson Cooper.
“And applauded,” added Cooper.
Tapper added: “It was an interesting night, Mr Trump’s first lie was told just seconds into the night with his false and familiar claim that the 2020 election was quote ‘a rigged election’ and the falsehoods kept on coming fastened furious, about the January 6 insurrection, about the threat to vice-president Pence’s ability to overturn the election, about Covid, the economy and more.”
Jake Tapper sums up Trump’s city corridor: “He called a black law enforcement officer a thug. He said people here in Washington, D.C. and Chinatown don’t speak English. He attacked Kaitlan as a nasty woman… he made fun of [Carrol’s] sexual assault and many in the audience laughed.” pic.twitter.com/NSzVzVEApP
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 11, 2023
Justin Baragona of The Daily Beast tweeted that he had been contacted by a CNN on-air character, whom he didn’t title, who gave them their shocked response to the city corridor.
“It is so bad. I was cautiously optimistic despite the criticism. It is awful. It’s a Trump infomercial. We’re going to get crushed,” the CNN employee told him.
Another CNN insider advised the Rolling Stone that the city corridor had been “appalling” and criticised their employer for giving Mr Trump “a huge platform to spew his lies”.
Yet one other CNN insider advised the journal that the occasion has been “a f*****g disgrace” and that giving Mr Trump airtime like that was “1000 per cent a mistake. No one (at CNN) is happy”.
“Just brutal,” a CNN primetime producer advised the Rolling Stone.
Source: www.impartial.co.uk