Mainstream journalists and other media figures slam CNN for disastrous town hall with former President Donald Trump

Mainstream journalists slammed CNN for its May 10 town hall with former President Donald Trump, who lied throughout the event without adequate fact-checking. Just one day after he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll (and subsequently attacked her on Truth Social), Trump spouted lie after lie at CNN’s live event. While host Kaitlan Collins struggled to fact-check him, the heavily Republican audience cheered on the former president, applauding after he joked about sexual assault, lied about the 2020 election, and called Collins “a nasty person.”...