Commentary
Mayday! Mayday! Network overboard!
CNN, which apparently had originally scheduled its Donald Trump town hall event to go for as long as 90 minutes, cut the event at less than 70 minutes as if terrified the 45th president might be reelected right there by proclamation.
That wasn’t exactly what the network had in mind.
Their host—who evidently saw her role more as a debater than as a moderator—walked straight into a Trumpian buzzsaw when the former president dubbed her a “nasty woman” to the obvious chortling approval of the St. Anselm College audience.
Indeed, that Manchester, New Hampshire, audience—incredible as it seems in retrospect, it was hand-picked by CNN—was with Trump all the way, almost completely ignoring Collins’s constant accusatory interruptions as if she weren’t there….