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David Folkenflik

CNN's town hall with Donald Trump takes on added stakes after verdict in Carroll case

CNN host Kaitlan Collins is shouldering added pressure for her network, as its town hall event with former President Donald Trump Wednesday evening takes on even greater stakes. On Tuesday, Trump was found liable for battery and defamation in E. Jean Carroll's civil suit against him. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for CNN; Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images/Getty/CNN)

Little more than a day after being found liable for battery and defamation of a woman who says he raped her in the 1990s, former President Donald Trump is scheduled to take questions in a live town hall event on the news network whose journalists he called "the enemy of the people" while running for the presidency and serving in office.

Before the jury foreperson announced the verdict at a courtroom in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, the immediate stakes for Trump — and CNN — were already high. Now they are even higher.

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