It's disgusting, but I would not be shocked to learn that this was part of Team Trump's conditions for the event.Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 9:34 amI read somewhere yesterday (will have to try and find it now) that it was intentional by CNN. They specifically and deliberately picked Republican and "Lean Republican Independents" for the audience.El Guapo wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 9:27 am Yeah, more than anything else I really want to know how that audience happened. Did they blithely follow whatever their normal town hall procedures and (unsurprisingly) wind up with that audience because Trump's people got the word out to their e-mail lists? More than anything else that audience made a mockery of any attempt for this to be a serious journalistic event (if that was ever really possible).
Whether that was to make Trump more comfortable or simply to generate the level of deplorable that we witnessed (everyone is talking about CNN this morning, right?) is still up for debate, but it was absolutely intentional.
That gets me into another worry. I'm struggling to remember the details here, but didn't CNN get some new conservative board member or something? As I recall made me worry that MAGA people were trying to de facto capture CNN / make it more friendly, and this would seem to deepen that worry.