Still, she was hardly in the Trump team’s good graces. Prior to her time at CNN, Collins had covered the White House for The Daily Caller, the conservative website co-founded by Tucker Carlson. She also largely avoided some of the more theatrical attacks on the president that others in the press corps favored. She was widely praised during that time for the quality and tenacity of her reporting. But it comes with plenty of risks, too.Ĭollins made her name as a White House Correspondent for CNN during Trump’s tenure. The town hall event is a big opportunity for Collins, a rising star with the network. They unite the GOP base in a way that attacks upon DeSantis do not. Trump has had some good news recently against Biden - most notably, a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday that showed him defeating his successor by 7 points in a head-to-head match-up.Īttacks on Biden are, in a sense, a simpler proposition for Trump. The jury awarded $5 million in damages against Trump, even as it did not find him liable for the most serious charge - that he raped Carroll.ĭemocrats have sinking feeling: Trump could beat Biden Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s - and for defaming her by accusing her of lying about those events. Jean Carroll verdict?Īs if the town hall was not set to be dramatic enough, it now comes on the heels of a new bombshell: the decision by a New York jury to hold Trump liable for the sexual abuse of columnist E. Beyond that, what are the big things to watch? What will Trump say about the E.

Wednesday evening’s broadcast is virtually guaranteed to draw a large audience, especially with the attention on Tuesday’s verdict. The network, for its part, was seen by some as having damaged its brand with gratuitously petty attacks on Trump or vainglorious performances from some of its reporters and pundits. Separately, he retweeted a cartoon of a train hitting a CNN reporter.

Trump and the network have been fierce foes in recent years. Trump even went so far, while president, to send a tweet featuring a modified image of him body-slamming a person with the CNN logo superimposed on their head. ( The Hill) - An explosive piece of political theater is set for Wednesday evening when former President Donald Trump appears at a town hall event televised by CNN - a day after he was found liable in a civil trial of sexual abuse.

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