Donald Trump has spent the better part of the past seven years badmouthing CNN and calling its reporting “fake news.” Yet on Monday, CNN offered to put Trump on the air live for an hour in prime time — and Trump accepted.
— implying that it revealed him suspiciously moderate sensibility reminiscent of the 2012 Republican nominee.Norman Ornstein, the eminent political scholar, put it this way: CNN’s invitation to Trump “legitimizes a man under indictment, currently on trial, with more indictments to come, who incited a violent insurrection against the country and its constitution and democracy,” he told The Post.
For Trump, he said, the invitation is “a godsend — a network he hates bowing down to him and giving him attention and airtime.” The rebukes came from inside the house, too. A CNN staffer — speaking anonymously to be candid about his employer — called the decision baffling. “He’s going to be taking questions from voters?” this staffer asked. “This was the guy who tried to overturn” what voters decided in 2020.“CNN goes all in on covering the presidential campaign and a key piece of that is town halls with the candidates,” said David Chalian, the network’s political director, in an interview.
But he’s also the Republican front-runner for the nomination, Chalian said: “For us, our job, despite his unique status, is the same. We have to hold him to account for his words and his actions. … I don’t think our mission as journalists is anything less than to cover the news. And he’s the news.” It’s unclear, however, how the town hall format, which features questions from non-journalists — some of whom may be Trump supporters — would enable CNN to hold Trump to account. Chalian said CNN has routinely produced such events with candidates and “you’d be hard-pressed to say [the format] is less revealing than a one-on-one interview.”
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