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Salon
Salon
Politics
Heather Digby Parton

CNN should have learned from Fox News

I think everyone knew that CNN's very special episode of The Trump Show on Wednesday night was going to be a fiasco. How could it not be? Donald Trump lies as easily as he breathes and he was going to be given a live platform to do it. We've seen him do these events for years now and there was no reason to believe this one would be any different.

If there was anything startling about it it was the friendly audience that cheered and jeered as if they were at a Trump rally. But we should have expected that too. CNN said the town hall was for Republican primary and "undeclared" voters and there's no mystery about what kind of people show up for campaign events with Donald Trump. All that was missing were the red hats and the awkward line dancing to "YMCA."

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