Posted on 05/11/2023 7:39:54 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny
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.
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Folks are not going to go to the debates to win arguments, they will go there hoping to survive the Trumpnado
Trump nailed this.
wow. cnn could not contain the donald.
he spoke the truth and would not back down about election integrity... all the audience members were for him.
Thanks for the link.
Doesn’t matter. They will fix the ‘24 election
The smart ones at the debates will only be there to audition for the open VP slot.
The audience was great. They laughed and applauded President Trump.
The meltdown by Demonrats on twitter over this is epic!
They are just furious at CNN.
So much fun to watch.
So how does DeSantis react to this Trump win last night? Even more so how on earth will Biden deal with the 800 pound gorilla this time around? Three more years of mental decline?
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You're right.
Let's all stay home, and, do nothing, in 2024.
Defeatist attitudes ALWAYS win elections!
True. Watching Nikki Haley (and the others) kissing butt will be nauseating
Well then why ask?
Just google it
Twitter has reams of snippets
Trump rolling over them
The best is their collective tears and anger at cnn and licht
But if you have TDS don’t make yourself sad
Just eighteen comments. Ridiculous! I’ll bump just to keep it going.
Nick Adams (Alpha Male)
@NickAdamsinUSA
I just heard from a friend with ties to the DeSantis camp saying their entire 2024 campaign is in question after Trump’s CNN performance tonight.
Ron is apparently getting cold feet and considering waiting. His consultants are flipping out and trying to convince him otherwise.
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