“This will not come as a shock,” said one CNN journalist, “but I don’t know anyone who was happy with last night. When the town hall concluded, many of the faces on the panel, save for Donalds, appeared stricken, a sober mood in sharp contrast to the preshow punditry talk that gave some déjà vu to 2016. in case the main event ended earlier than planned. There was also concern that Trump might walk off in the early portion of the town hall, and producers wanted the recap panelists seated and ready to go by 8 p.m. Prior to the town hall, producers were concerned about the recap panels being too negative on Trump, Vanity Fair has learned. “I suspect you won’t see him on talking about election results in the future,” a source close to Licht told Vanity Fair. When the town hall concluded after about 70 minutes, CNN turned to a panel that included GOP representative Byron Donalds, who refused to concede that Trump lost the 2020 election and attacked Collins’s moderation. And the live audience, of New Hampshire Republican and undeclared primary voters, laughed and cheered as he did.
Jean Carroll, a day after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. It was an ugly spectacle, in which the former president lied about everything from the 2020 election to the January 6 Capitol attack that he incited and Democrats’ abortion policies. Watching Wednesday’s town hall, though, news was hardly the takeaway.
Licht congratulated moderator Kaitlan Collins “on a masterful performance,” in which she “asked the tough questions and followed up and fact-checked Donald Trump in real time” and “made a ton of news.” He referenced an Axios piece-an article that downplayed the outrage as “Twitter-bubble hysterics”-that did an “incredible job laying out everything new we learned.” “I realize there’s been backlash and that’s expected,” he said about the widely criticized town hall CNN hosted with former president Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, the night before. CNN CEO Chris Licht cut right to the chase on Thursday’s 9 a.m.
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