NY – Ex POTUS Donald Trump, sued by E. Jean Carroll, DT found liable re sexual assault, $5M award, countersuit dismissed, appeal rejected, 2023

[TootsieFootsie]

I’d rather stick knives into my eyeballs than watch that town hall

I thought I wouldn't want to watch, but now I am curious over how he will handle it.

Is it viewable outside the US ?

 

[happyday]

Dear CNN, giving Trump a town-hall platform is the height of irresponsibility​

No more town halls, interviews or rallies. Coverage should be driven by clear editorial choices that serve US democracy

Putting a microphone and three cameras on Trump as if he were just another candidate and not an instigator of the violent disruption of American democracy and leader of a conspiracy to overthrow the results of a national election is the height of journalistic irresponsibility.

[...]

No one has wanted to admit it is a dangerous moment or new environment.

So how should mainstream journalistic organizations like CNN cover Trump – or any candidate – through the election? All plans and policies should be based on the realization that democracy is under direct threat from many small factions in the United States, supported by at least one foreign power (Russia), and that they all support the return of Donald Trump to power. Trump himself is immune to shaming and exposure. So that 20th-century assumption about shining a light or exposing or embarrassing a wrongdoer is not appropriate now. The situation is more dire and the political climate in the United States is beyond such tepid, genteel moves.

[...]

News organizations must accept that they make news by virtue of their choices. They don’t cover things that already exist as “news”. They are political actors. They must choose democracy or risk being used for free by the forces that oppose democracy. The stakes are too high to continue doing business as usual. The stakes are high in a business sense, of course. But they are higher in the sense of our survival as a democratic republic in a world in which democracy is in danger.

Dear CNN, giving Trump a town-hall platform is the height of irresponsibility | Siva Vaidhyanathan

No more town halls, interviews or rallies. Coverage should be driven by clear editorial choices that serve US democracy

www.theguardian.com

I banned CNN from my house about a year ago. I miss Anderson Cooper though.

 

[happyday]

I thought I wouldn't want to watch, but now I am curious over how he will handle it.

Is it viewable outside the US ?

Maybe on CNN International? Or YouTube somewhere? I’m sure it will be a train wreck! I’ll wait to hear about it later.

 

[JennieM]

I thought I wouldn't want to watch, but now I am curious over how he will handle it.

Is it viewable outside the US ?

What time is the town hall?​

The town hall is set to begin at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday.

How can I watch it?​

The town hall will stream live without requiring a cable log-in, on CNN.com’s homepage and across mobile devices via CNN’s apps for iOS and Android, on CNN OTT and mobile apps under “TV Channels,” or CNNgo where available. The town hall will also be available On Demand beginning Thursday, May 11, to pay TV subscribers via CNN.com, the CNN OTT app, and Cable Operator Platforms.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/10/politics/how-to-watch-trump-town-hall-cnn/index.html

 

[TootsieFootsie]

How can I watch it?

Thank You!

 

[SouthAussie]

During her appearance on CBS Mornings today, E Jean Carroll was asked what question she would want voters to ask former president Donald Trump at tonight’s CNN town hall.

“I don’t think of this as being political,” she replied. “That is an impossible question for me to answer.”

Trump says ‘liberal jews’ voted to ‘destroy America’ - latest

Follow the latest updates from the former president’s 2024 campaign and ongoing legal woes

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[Gut_feeling]

Why is he so enamored of #45? What does #45 have on him?

Exactly.

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

During her appearance on CBS Mornings today, E Jean Carroll was asked what question she would want voters to ask former president Donald Trump at tonight’s CNN town hall.

“I don’t think of this as being political,” she replied. “That is an impossible question for me to answer.”

Trump says ‘liberal jews’ voted to ‘destroy America’ - latest

Follow the latest updates from the former president’s 2024 campaign and ongoing legal woes

www.independent.co.uk

How about this plea……. Dear media, please stop giving him a microphone and a platform. How about rendering it irrelevant? Ignoring some things is a wise idea I once learned. I won’t be watching.

MO

 

[Gut_feeling]

How about this plea……. Dear media, please stop giving him a microphone and a platform. How about rendering it irrelevant? Ignoring some things is a wise idea I once learned. I won’t be watching.

MO

I won't be watching either. Of course I hope he makes a fool of himself, but I can read about it later I think he'll still be in his "child throwing an angry tantrum" mode, even though he'll try his BEST to pretend he doesn't care. He's so transparent and predictable, all it will take is couple questions to get him flustered and he'll be gasping for air.

Wouldn't it be GREAT if E. Jean Carroll was there to ask a question?????? Lol!!!

 

[JennieM]

Michael Fanone condemns CNN’s town hall ‘party’ for Trump as backlash rises​

Michael Fanone, one of the police officers assaulted during the Capitol riot, has slammed CNN for hosting a town hall event featuring Donald Trump — the man he says "tried to get me killed."

The retired DC Metropolitan Police officer and now regular CNN contributor penned an essay in Rolling Stone explaining the "sucker punch" he felt when the network announced that the former president would be included in a special town hall event, comparing it to a “rehabilitation party.”

Though he recognises that Mr Trump is the likely Republican frontrunner ahead of the 2024 election and admits that he is far from the only politician who has lied to the American public, Mr Fanone still believes the former president is uniquely unworthy of a national platform.

[...]

He argues that putting Mr Trump "like a normal candidate who didn’t get people killed in the process of trying to end the democracy he’s attempting to once again run," would only serve to normalize his actions today and for future candidates.

Michael Fanone condemns CNN’s town hall ‘party’ for Trump as backlash rises

Fanone was one of the police officers assaulted during the Capitol riot

www.independent.co.uk

 

[JennieM]

What the scene is like at tonight's CNN town hall in New Hampshire​

There’s a definite feel at Saint Anselm College that the 2024 presidential campaign is really beginning tonight. There’s excitement, tension and dissent in the air that recalls the build-up to a presidential debate.

The fact that the unpredictable Donald Trump is the presidential frontrunner after a tumultuous presidency and refusal to accept the result of the 2020 election is only deepening the feeling that something big is about to happen – as town hall attendees line up to clear Secret Service security checks near protesters shouting anti-Trump slogans.

Many of the registered Republicans and voters who plan to vote in the 2024 GOP primary are hoping they will get called upon.

One Trump supporter, Karen Langella, said that she hoped that the questions would “not focus on what happened” on Tuesday when a jury found Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996 in New York and that he was liable for battery and defamation after a civil trial.

Langella’s daughter, Isabella, who is an independent and shopping around for the most conservative Republican candidate, hoped that “people stick to his ideas and his policies instead of what happened 20 years ago.”

Another attendee, Al Peel, hoped to get a question to Trump about his own ideas on how to help homeless veterans. He also wanted the former president to tone down his wild antics and focus instead on policies.

“If he could keep off his Twitter account and all his fingers off the keyboard – he’d be a lot more popular," he said.

“I think he’s Bozo the Clown, OK. But I love his results," he added.

Across the road, a crowd of students held up signs reading “love Trumps hate” and “nobody is above the law,” while chanting “You’re abhorrent, you’re broke, you lost the popular vote.”

Trump town hall on CNN: Live updates

Former President Donald Trump participated in a CNN presidential town Wednesday night and took questions from New Hampshire voters. Watch live and follow here for news updates.

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[SouthAussie]

I won't be watching either. Of course I hope he makes a fool of himself, but I can read about it later I think he'll still be in his "child throwing an angry tantrum" mode, even though he'll try his BEST to pretend he doesn't care. He's so transparent and predictable, all it will take is couple questions to get him flustered and he'll be gasping for air.

Wouldn't it be GREAT if E. Jean Carroll was there to ask a question?????? Lol!!!

The invited audience consists of 400 Republicans and GOP-leaning independents.

It would be great if DT was asked some hard hitting questions about his misogyny, his lies, his lack of appearance in court, his failure to address the trial by actually attending.

But I do wonder if the questions will be more scripted, will have been subject to the pre-approval of the DT regime.

There are 167,500,000 women in the US, and many empathising men, who should be appalled at the misogyny of a sexually abusing presidential candidate. imo
.

 

[JennieM]

Live streaming here

Trump town hall on CNN: Live updates

Former President Donald Trump participated in a CNN presidential town Wednesday night and took questions from New Hampshire voters. Watch live and follow here for news updates.

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[kaen]

This was not a criminal trial with a finding of guilty or not guilty. It was a civil trial with a much lower level of evidence required. It was a he said she said and only the jury heard the evidence from both sides.

One thing that I think of about this verdict is that it is more than he said/she said. More specifically, it is hinged predominantly on what he said. It is also about credibility. What are the odds that a number of women happened to have had experienced the same behavior that he described in that ACCESS Hollywood tape? What are the chances that these women had told people long ago before the ACCESS Hollywood tape? This man said that he could do what he wanted on Fifth Ave and face no consequences. This same man then participates in a taped deposition and basically seals the deal that his thinking (probably actions as well) is that as a powerful man he could do what he wanted and not be held accountable like millions of stars before him. He sank his credibility. So, the jury decided that what he said in those tapes and depositions were the truth rather than all of the overdone, played to the crowd rants. He refused to testify to the jury under oath and under threat of perjury. The bar may be legally lower but he created a situation that lowered his chances of a verdict in his favor exponentially. I am glad he will have to put the monetary damages in escrow before he can appeal. My bet is that Ms. Carroll will wind up with it all based on his past and present behavior. IN a court he is not in control.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

The invited audience consists of 400 Republicans and GOP-leaning independents.

So totally fair and balanced then...

 

[Muddy K]

Watching the live stream...

Yeah, dude. Call me when the shuttle lands.

 

[JerseyGirl]

The audience is annoying. OMG! Laughing and clapping at the sexual assault trial. WTH?

 

[JennieM]

First comment about the rape trial.

"You can't get a fair trial in New York either..."

 

[JennieM]

He is making fun of her and defaming her

"What kind of a woman would invite [someone] to have hanky-panky in a dressing room?"

"She is a wack job!"

 

[JennieM]

He kept saying that he never met her, doesn't know her.