Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Congressman Andy Ogles is a fantastic Representative for the incredible people of Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District. I was pleased to recently receive his Endorsement for President.

Andy is working hard to Grow the Economy, Stop Inflation, Secure our Southern Border, Uphold the Rule of Law, and Defend our Second Amendment.

I was proud to help Andy flip a Democrat seat in 2022, and he has my Complete and Total Endorsement for re-election. He will not let you down!

May 11, 2023, 6:42 PM

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Page 2: The Radical Left screamed, “Take it down, take it down,” during the Show, because they saw that I was making so many important points on the Border, Energy Independence, the Afghanistan Catastrophe, Inflation, the Economy, Russia/Ukraine, and so much more. Many minds were changed on Wednesday night by listening to Common Sense, and sheer “Brilliance.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/business/media/cnn-donald-trump-chris-licht.html

CNN Chairman Defends Decision to Host Trump Town Hall

“People woke up, and they know what the stakes are in this election in a way that they didn’t the day before,” Chris Licht said in a morning call at the network.

May 11, 2023, 6:45 PM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110352472619080162

==CNN Chairman Defends Decision to Host Trump Town Hall

“People woke up, and they know what the stakes are in this election in a way that they didn’t the day before,” Chris Licht said in a morning call at the network.==

Chris Licht, in a dark jacket and light shirt, leans against a white railing with the red and white CNN logo behind him.

Chris Licht, chairman of CNN, defended the network’s town hall that featured former President Donald J. Trump promoting falsehoods.Credit…Vincent Tullo for The New York Times

May 11, 2023

Updated 6:10 p.m. ET

The chairman of CNN, Chris Licht, issued a robust defense on Thursday of his decision to broadcast a live town hall with former President Donald J. Trump, an unruly and at times bewildering event that has prompted criticism inside and outside of the network.

On a network-wide editorial call, Mr. Licht congratulated the moderator, Kaitlan Collins, on “a masterful performance” before acknowledging the public backlash. “We all know covering Donald Trump is messy and tricky, and it will continue to be messy and tricky, but it’s our job,” Mr. Licht said, according to a recording of the call obtained by The New York Times.

“I absolutely, unequivocally believe America was served very well by what we did last night,” Mr. Licht added. “People woke up, and they know what the stakes are in this election in a way that they didn’t the day before. And if someone was going to ask tough questions and have that messy conversation, it damn well should be on CNN.”

The town hall, which aired in prime-time on Wednesday, featured Mr. Trump deploying a fusillade of falsehoods, sometimes too quickly for the moderator to intercept. It was a preview of what American journalism can expect from a 2024 campaign with the former president, who despite his ubiquity in political life has rarely appeared on mainstream TV outside of Fox News since leaving office.

If the 2016 campaign showed that many Americans could not agree on common facts, the Babel-like nature of Wednesday’s New Hampshire town hall suggested that voters now occupied wholly different universes. Mr. Trump repeated a web of conspiracies about a stolen election and the “beautiful day” of the Capitol riot, language that was likely to befuddle half the viewing audience and resonate as gospel with the rest.

“The election was not rigged, Mr. President,” Ms. Collins said at one point. “You cannot keep saying that all night long.” (He kept saying it.)

The live audience, a group of Republicans and Republican-leaning independent voters, often cheered him on, even when he derided Ms. Collins as a “nasty person.”

“While we all may have been uncomfortable hearing people clapping, that was also an important part of the story,” Mr. Licht said on Thursday, “because the people in that audience represent a large swath of America. And the mistake the media made in the past is ignoring that those people exist. Just like you cannot ignore that President Trump exists.”

Critics said it was reckless for the network to provide a live forum to Mr. Trump, given his track record of spreading disinformation. Even the network’s own commentators appeared taken aback by what had transpired on its airwaves. “We don’t have enough time to fact check every lie he told,” Jake Tapper told viewers on Wednesday night.

>>18831965

The town hall was watched by 3.3 million people, according to Nielsen, a significant increase from CNN’s typical audience on an average weeknight at 8 p.m. But the Trump town hall fell short of the average viewership for Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, which was seen by an average of 3.2 million people in the first three months of the year.

Mr. Licht, who took over CNN last year after the network was acquired by Warner Bros. Discovery, has had a rocky tenure, and some journalists there have bristled at his public comments that the network had veered too far into an anti-Trump stance when Mr. Trump was in the White House. Mr. Licht has said CNN must appeal to more centrists and conservative voters, a strategy that has support from his corporate superiors.

There were signs on Thursday that frustration inside CNN about the town hall was bubbling up. The network’s own media newsletter, “Reliable Sources,” published a tough assessment after the event, noting, “It’s hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.”

The newsletter cited several critical posts on social media about the forum, including some people who faulted the network for choosing a town hall-style format where voters were free to cheer Mr. Trump and jeer Ms. Collins, the moderator.

CNN said it selected the audience members in the same manner as it had for past candidate forums. A network team traveled to New Hampshire and coordinated with community groups, faith-based organizations, local Republican officials and the student government at Saint Anselm College, which hosted the event.

CNN said the aim was to fill the auditorium with citizens representing a range of conservative views, but the network declined to identify specific groups that were consulted, saying it did not want activists trying to game the system at future events.

In keeping with past network practice, the Trump campaign was provided invitations for about 20 guests to attend the town hall, although these guests were not allowed to ask questions of the candidate. Officials at Saint Anselm College were allowed to invite about 70 people. The total audience was 300 to 350 people.

In the days leading up to the town hall, Ms. Collins prepared with the team in New Hampshire extensively, according to a person familiar with the matter, going over potential falsehoods Mr. Trump might utter onstage. Mr. Licht gave feedback, and Mr. Trump was played in mock debates by Mark Preston, CNN’s vice president of political and special events programming,

Mr. Licht’s decision to select Ms. Collins for the high-profile assignment underscored her rising prominence as an on-air anchor at CNN. The network is finalizing a multiyear contract with Ms. Collins that will make her the anchor of CNN’s currently vacant 9 p.m. hour, according to three people with knowledge of talks. That hour is a crucial time slot for advertisers, and Ms. Collins’s recent tryout in that time-slot last month drew favorable ratings.

Puck earlier reported that Ms. Collins was nearing a deal with CNN.

Ms. Collins’s deal, combined with Don Lemon’s recent ouster from CNN, means that the network will have to retool its morning show. The network is looking for new co-hosts to pair with Poppy Harlow, Ms. Collins’s co-anchor on “CNN This Morning.”

Some CNN critics had asserted that the network cut away early from the Trump event, which ended around 9:10 p.m. In fact, the event was always intended to last an hour or so, with a panel of analysts ready in a studio to take over coverage at the start of the 9 p.m. hour.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/business/media/cnn-donald-trump-chris-licht.html

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Page 1: People are criticizing CNN for giving me a Forum to tell the TRUTH. I believe it was a very smart thing that they did, with Sky High Ratings that they haven’t seen in a very long time. It was by far the biggest Show of the night, the week, and the month!

May 11, 2023, 6:45 PM

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/11/american-greatness-poll-trump-leads-desantis-in-florida-gop-primary/

American Greatness Poll: Trump Leads DeSantis in Florida GOP Primary › American Greatness

American Greatness is launching a polling project in the early presidential primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. The polls will be released at a rate of one per week.

May 11, 2023,5:05PM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110352081317324950

American Greatness Poll: Trump Leads DeSantis in Florida GOP Primary

By Christopher Gage

May 11, 2023

American Greatness is launching a polling project in the early presidential primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. The polls will be released at a rate of one per week. This week’s poll is was conducted in Florida with a focus on the Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis dynamic.

Former President Donald Trump leads rival Ron DeSantis in the latter’s state of Florida by eight points, an exclusive poll reveals. Forty-two percent say they’ll back Trump compared to 34 percent who support DeSantis. Among voters favorable to both Trump and DeSantis, Trump’s lead stretches to a 19 points and the most enthusiastic voters prefer Trump by 10 points.

Trump also dominates DeSantis on the policy front with 28 percent saying Trump is the better candidate to improve the economy and 6 percent preferring Trump to fight the culture war.

A plurality of the Florida respondents are most concerned with progressive politicians in Washington, D.C. Additional concerns include the border, election security, taxes and the cost of living.

Other declared candidates register support at two percent or less and 16 percent of those polled said they were undecided or had another unnamed candidate in mind.

On the national level, a recent poll by Washington Post/ABC News found President Biden trailing Trump by six points. Forty-four percent said they’d vote for Trump while just 38 percent said they’d vote for the current Oval Office occupant.

After recently announcing his bid for reelection, Biden has watched his approval ratings sink to their lowest yet—a dismal 36 percent. Fifty-six percent disapprove of his job performance (including 47 percent disapproving strongly). Just over 60 percent said Biden lacked the mental acuity for the demands of his office. Over half of voters—54 percent to 36 percent—said Trump handled the economy better than Biden.

Other polls suggest almost half of Democrats do not want Biden to run for another four years in office, with most citing Biden’s advanced age as their reason.

The poll from National Research Inc. and commissioned by American Greatness surveyed 500 likely Republican primary voters in the state of Florida using live telephone interviews (landline and cell) and text-to-online. The survey was conducted on May 8-9. The margin of error is +/- four percentage points.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/11/american-greatness-poll-trump-leads-desantis-in-florida-gop-primary/

>>18831989

NOTABLE

Claimed to be sexually assaulted yet is a MASSIVE fan of Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll is a LIAR and a FREAK, that was 11 years ago, her words, MASSIVE Apprentice fan.

I want to see her jailed for fraud.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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May 11, 2023, 3:34 PM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110351724781201971

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>>18832010

Where is the rumble link?

url and or embed?

>>18832010

Devin Nunes: Disinformation and the Deep State

50:28

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Trump Receives Instant Standing Ovation From Massive CNN Town Hall Crowd

On Wednesday, 45th President and leading presidential candidate Donald Trump received an instant standing ovation at a CNN primetime Town Hall with CNN Anchor Kaitlan Collins in New Hampshire.

"You've got quite a crowd," Collins told Trump.

Before the town hall began, Trump wrote on his top-rated social media platform, Truth Social, “Heading to the Great State of New Hampshire. CNN LIVE, Tonight, 8:00 P.M. Is CNN making a comeback, or is it just a charade?”

“They must treat MAGA, the greatest political movement in our Country’s history, with respect. I think they will, but we will soon find out? Big long term opportunity for CNN!!!” Trump added.

Amid an 83 percent decline in ratings, CNN announced in a statement last Monday they will be hosting a primetime Town Hall with Trump.

“With the 2024 presidential election underway, CNN Anchor Kaitlan Collins will moderate a live CNN Town Hall with former President Donald Trump at 9pmET on Wednesday, May 10 from St. Anselm College in New Hampshire,” the statement reads.

Popular Information newsletter author, Judd Legum, said, “First, CNN systematically purged anyone on the network who was deemed too anti-Trump. Now this.”

Former MSNBC host and avid anti-Trumper, Keith Olbermann, said, “I think we can say Chris Licht’s conversion of CNN into a political and journalistic whorehouse is complete.”

CNN suffered a devastating loss of primetime viewers during the week of February 27, while President Trump is experiencing massive gains in his poll numbers and ratings.

According to a report, CNN dropped 71 percent in total prime-time viewers, 83 percent among viewers aged 25 to 54 in primetime viewership, and 62 percent in total day viewers.

CNN isn’t the only anti-Trump ‘news’ outlet suffering failing ratings, either. The Washington Post, nicknamed “The Washington Compost” by Trump, has lost a devastating 500,000 subscribers since Trump left office and is considering selling part of its tech business.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the far-left newspaper’s subscriber count dropped from three million in 2021 to now two and a half million, a 20 percent decline.

Vice News, another far-left outlet, is reportedly preparing to file for bankruptcy.

This must be music to President Trump’s ears. In 2017, Trump said, “Newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there. Because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outperformed all other cable news rankings.

According to a “Cable News Rankings” report, posted by Trump, the total viewership of Cable News Rankings on Saturday, March 4, 2023, revealed Fox News’s coverage of Trump’s speech at CPAC topped the ranking with over 1.6 million viewers. Newsmax’s coverage of Trump’s speech also made the ranking with over 600,000 viewers.

Trump also overflowed the venue of CPAC with a huge crowd of supporters that even included the former President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.

Trump’s CPAC speech was held in the Potomac Ballroom of the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. The ballroom can hold 5,520 people seated. Trump’s audience was packed to the brim and there were even more people watching from outside of the ballroom.

With polls showing Trump in the lead amongst all potential Republican and Democrat challengers, any potential candidate will have an impossible battle if they attempt to usurp the favorite to win the 2024 nomination.

https://dcenquirer.com/watch-trump-receives-instant-standing-ovation-from-massive-cnn-town-hall-crowd

>>18832080

yaw

>>18832113

Donald Trump Gets Standing Ovation At CNN Town Hall

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He's Back! CNN's Townhall Proves Trump Is Once Again the Dominant Figure of American Politics

He's back!

Actually, he never went away. But now, former President Donald Trump is once again the clearly dominant figure on the American political scene, far eclipsing everyone else, including the sitting President.

On Thursday night, he made a long-awaited return to CNN, the lion's den of what he calls "fake news," for a primetime townhall broadcast live from New Hampshire. Moderated by Kaitlan Collins, the forum offered the former president a chance to address a wide range of issues, take questions from voters, and perhaps most importantly, demonstrate that he remains the 800 pound gorilla of the Republican Party.

It began with a discussion of the 2020 election results. Collins challenged Trump on his claims that the race was "rigged," but Trump held firm that it was not a truly fair election. Indeed, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg pumped $400 million into key states for drop boxes, get out the vote operations, ballot harvesting and other activity that heavily favored Democrats. Just weeks before the election, the FBI worked with Twitter and other social media companies to suppress the New York Post's factual story of Hunter Biden's laptop, and all of the evidence of Biden family corruption on it. At the same time, 51 current and former intelligence officials signed a letter falsely claiming the laptop was "Russian disinformation." And the pandemic allowed for the expansion of mass mail-in voting, early voting, and relaxed signature verification standards, opening up at the least the possibility of abuse.

While Trump didn't get into many of these specifics, they're the kinds of machinations that swayed the election.

When asked by a voter if he would "suspend polarizing talk" of election fraud during the current campaign, Trump replied, "Let's just win it again and straighten out our country."

Turning to the events of January 6, 2021, Trump referred to his tweets that day encouraging peaceful protests, respect for law enforcement, an end to the violence, and a dispersal of the crowds—tweets which were removed by Twitter. He also placed the blame squarely on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who were responsible for Capitol and District security.

"I offered them 10,000 soldiers… if they would have taken 500 soldiers, we wouldn't have the problem," Trump said. "They turned it down. And if you look at the Inspector General report, he says they turned it down. They made a terrible mistake," he said.

He also indicated a willingness to pardon "many" January 6 defendants, saying the non-violent protesters have been "persecuted" by the Biden administration, while many violent Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters were not prosecuted at all.

"I'm not trying to justify anything, but there are two standards of justice in this country," Trump added, to vocal approval from the audience.

Trump offered spirited pushback on his myriad legal issues, including the classified documents and Georgia election cases, and the indictment brought by a New York grand jury. In all instances, his actions were legal and correct, he said, reinforcing his longstanding—and accurate—position that he's been subjected to endless "witch-hunts" intended to destroy him and his candidacy.

On policy, Trump blasted Biden's anemic economy, open border catastrophe, disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, and endless support for the Ukraine war. He also strongly defended the Second Amendment and argued for more effective attention to mental health, demurred on a national abortion ban, and called for a return to U.S. energy independence, a critically important feat he achieved as president.

Throughout, Trump was Trump, batting away questions in his signature rapid-fire manner and deploying his quick wit. He appeared relaxed and in command, so it's no wonder that his haters went into total meltdown.

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for example tweeted that "CNN should be ashamed of themselves. They have lost total control of this 'town hall' to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim. The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host."

>>18832159

CNN should be ashamed of themselves.

They have lost total control of this “town hall” to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim.

The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 11, 2023

MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan tweeted, "I thought this #CNNTownhall with Trump would be bad but it's much worse than I thought it would be." The New York Times's Nikole Hannah-Jones said CNN was "massively ill-equipped for this," and the Daily Beast's Matt Fuller called it an "irresponsible disaster of journalism." The post-townhall CNN panel was positively funereal.

All of which is to say, Trump crushed it and everyone knew it.

Having spent the last eight years trying to destroy him, they can't believe he's not only still standing; he's the leading Republican candidate for president by far, and at least even money to be re-elected President.

After the townhall, CNN's John King lamented Trump's "plausible path to winning again."

It's not just plausible; it's likely.

Buckle up.

https://www.newsweek.com/hes-back-cnns-townhall-proves-trump-once-again-dominant-figure-american-politics-opinion-1799661

Trump Files Notice to Appeal E. Jean Carroll Verdict

President Trump’s lawyers on Thursday officially filed a notice to appeal the E. Jean Carroll verdict.

A Manhattan jury reached a verdict in the E. Jean Carroll rape/defamation case on Tuesday afternoon.

In 2019, E. Jean Carroll alleged Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990’s.

Trump has denied the allegations and called E. Jean Carroll a “whack job” who’s “not my type.”

President Trump doesn’t even know who this woman is.

The jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse, but not rape.

Trump was ordered to pay $5 million in damages to Carroll after LinkedIn founder and billionaire megadonor Reid Hoffman funded her federal civil lawsuit.

“Notice is hereby given that Defendant Donald J. Trump appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from the judgement entered in this action on May 11, 2023… awarding Plaintiff compensatory and punitive damages totaling $5,000,000.00 and from all adverse orders, rulings, decrees, decisions, opinions, memoranda, conclusions, or finding preceding, leading to, merged in, or included within the Final Judgment, by the Honorable United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan,” the notice of appeal stated.

It's official.

Trump files a notice of appeal on the verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll. @LawCrimeNews pic.twitter.com/tiRnC91uEH

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 11, 2023

“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday afternoon.

“VERY UNFAIR TRIAL!” Trump said.

Trump blasted Clinton-appointed judge Kaplan.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/new-trump-files-notice-to-appeal-e-jean-carroll-verdict

>>18832343

Q Research General #23113: Trump Files Notice to unAppealing E. Jean Carroll Verdict? Edition

Trump fires back at critics slamming his town hall: ‘did the right thing’

Trump said the network is 'taking a lot of heat'

EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump said CNN "did the right thing" by hosting him for a town hall Wednesday night, saying he "got the word out to millions of people that would generally not hear" his point of view on a number of campaign issues.

Trump, the frontrunner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, participated in a CNN town hall Wednesday night, hosted by Katilan Collins. The network has been facing criticism for giving the former president a platform.

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"I was happy to do it," Trump told Fox News Digital. "I got the word out to millions of people that would generally not hear this point of view concerning things such as the border, inflation, the economy, energy independence, the Afghanistan catastrophe and more."

"CNN is taking a lot of heat," Trump said.

"I think CNN did the right thing by putting me on—all you have to do is look at their fantastic ratings," Trump said.

He added: "It was an honor to do it."

Fox News Digital reported Thursday that CNN was facing a "a fury of criticism" from its own employees for airing the town hall.

"It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN," media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote in the network's "Reliable Sources" newsletter. "It felt like 2016 all over again."

Not all of the network's staffers were upset by the event.

"We live in a democratic republic and Trump is the frontrunner for the GOP nomination," a staffer told Fox News Digital. "It’s not the media's job to silence a politician they don’t like. The format was messy, but voters need to hear from both of the frontrunners, Trump and Biden. And by the way, Trump did what his base wanted but his performance last night was radioactive to moderates and undecideds."

CNN has defended the decision to air the town hall.

"Kaitlan Collins exemplified what it means to be a world-class journalist. She asked tough, fair and revealing questions," a network spokesperson said.

"She followed up and fact-checked President Trump in real time to arm voters with crucial information about his positions as he enters the 2024 election as the Republican frontrunner," the spokesperson continued. "That is CNN’s role and responsibility: to get answers and hold the powerful to account."

CNN CEO Chris Licht also defended the decision on Thursday morning in a call with staffers, according to former CNN media reporter Brian Stelter.

Stelter, who founded the "Reliable Sources" newsletter and was fired by Licht last year, tweeted tidbits from the call.

"You do not have to like the former president's answers, but you can't say that we didn't get them," Licht said, according to Stelter. "While we all may have been uncomfortable hearing people clapping, that was also an important part of the story… America was served very well by what we did last night."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fires-back-critics-slamming-his-town-hall-did-right-thing

>>18832358

better