Kaitlan Collins all set to Roast Trump in a CNN Town Hall Interview With Trump

[Frankfooter]

Well CNN always handed an olive branch to Trump for an interview and he turned them down in the past. the only way that Trump thinks that he will win an election is to reach out to Independent voters. Unlikely that he would get them from Fox as Independents will not really follow that network especially now that Fox's blatant dishonesty was exposed!!

I would wonder if CNN's decision to turn into Fox lite is looking a little precarious after Fox is losing its power and audience now that they cut down on the fake news.

 

[bver_hunter]

I would wonder if CNN's decision to turn into Fox lite is looking a little precarious after Fox is losing its power and audience now that they cut down on the fake news.

Yes, they thrived on fake news. No wonder that those on the right trusted this media as they had the highest viewer ratings. Automatically they were brainwashed into believing that someone like Tucker Carlson was revealing all the skeletons in a closet, especially when we warned them about his constant conspiracy theories!!

 

[Valcazar]

That's always been the "problem " with Trump. He'd take any question and answer as he sees it for as long as it takes, not as his handlers want him to answer. It has caused him many problems with the establishment media. Incidentally, it is what propelled him to the top of the Republican ticket.

This is somewhat true.
The fact Trump will happily lie and contradict himself based on his audience was a big part of what made him popular.
He would not answer, contradict himself, make shit up and so on -- this let lots of people project what they wanted to see on him.
The old school Republicans liked to dog whistle to the base and then give themselves room to hedge on following through.
Trump would just say the quiet parts out loud because that is what the crowd wanted to hear.
He didn't care whether or not he could do it or if it would be good.
Follow through was a problem for later.

Town halls are pretty good for Trump if he has a good sense of the kind of crowd it is, since he will just tell them what they want to hear and any fact checking can be shouted down as fake and wrong.

 

[Valcazar]

I would wonder if CNN's decision to turn into Fox lite is looking a little precarious after Fox is losing its power and audience now that they cut down on the fake news.

CNN was never going to be able to compete with Fox by turning into Fox lite.
Why get the watered down version when someone is offering the uncut drug?

They just want to go back to their old days of being respectably center-right for the business conservative types.
They just don't know how to get there because that crowd is mostly gone now, and the cable news model is pretty shaky business.

They'd have to be run as a kind of loss leader to do real news, and the money men don't want to do that.

 

[Frankfooter]

This is somewhat true.
The fact Trump will happily lie and contradict himself based on his audience was a big part of what made him popular.
He would not answer, contradict himself, make shit up and so on -- this let lots of people project what they wanted to see on him.
The old school Republicans liked to dog whistle to the base and then give themselves room to hedge on following through.
Trump would just say the quiet parts out loud because that is what the crowd wanted to hear.
He didn't care whether or not he could do it or if it would be good.
Follow through was a problem for later.

Town halls are pretty good for Trump if he has a good sense of the kind of crowd it is, since he will just tell them what they want to hear and any fact checking can be shouted down as fake and wrong.

Just as in court he mostly pleads the fifth.
Except....

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