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Cooper on Trump’s explosive Town Hall on CNN: “You have every right to be angry”

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2023-05-12 12:30:12

Donald Trump's appearance in a Town Hall-style interview hosted and aired by CNN earlier this week sparked widespread outcry from the network's listeners...

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...so much so that Anderson Cooper, CNN's star anchor since 2001, tried to justify the former president's presence on their airwaves during his show.

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Beginning his show by apologizing to the audience following the catastrophic reactions of the Town Hall broadcasted the day before by saying: "You have every right to be angry and never watch this network again."...

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...Cooper then tried to explain the network's view of Trump: "Do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make this person go away?"

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Phrase that of course shocked many listeners who already know very well that Donald Trump is well and truly still there and will be the Republican candidate for president in 2024!

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Recall that during the Town Hall led by Kaitlan Collins, the host quickly lost control of Trump's lies, despite her best efforts...

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...as Trump began to spout a multitude of lies, including about the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, a tactic we know by heart from the former president...

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...and to finally denigrate live the woman he was just found guilty in civil court of assaulting and defaming (to the exclamations and laughter from the crowd present to support the former president), calling of course in passing Kaitlan Collins "nasty" when she tried to set the record straight.