Christiane Amanpour Is First CNN Anchor to Slam Trump Town Hall in Public: ‘Maybe Less Is More’ (Video)

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believes they did a public good. Many of CNN’s on-air talent have expressed the same sentiment, including primetime mainstay Anderson Cooper, who the day after the show insisted the town hall informed viewers of things they might not know about Trump — and even, essentially, said critics were being closed-minded.Amanpour didn’t mention Cooper by name, but in her remarks she seemed to respond directly to him. “The fact the American people voted 3 times against Trump and Trumpism — 2018, 2020, 2022 — also speaks volumes,” she said. “We’ve done our duty, we’ve told the story, we’ve put that in everybody’s awareness, and people have had the opportunity to make their choices, and they have done.”“I still respectfully disagree with allowing Donald Trump to appear in that particular format,” she continued. “We know Trump and his tendencies.

Everyone does. He just seizes the stage and dominates. No matter how much flack the moderator tries to aim at the incoming, it doesn’t often work.

For me, I would have dropped the mic at ‘nasty person,’ but then that’s me.”Amanpour next addressed graduating students, and described the town hall as, “a very well-timed, practical masterclass” on what could have been “done better.”Noting that the her colleagues in the media “still haven’t learned how to cover Donald Trump,” she suggested, “Maybe we should revert back to the newspaper editors and TV chiefs of the 1950s, who in the end refused to allow McCarthyism onto their pages, unless his foul lies, his witch hunts and his rants reached the basic evidence level required in a court of law.” “His influence gradually decreased with all but his fervent colleagues and cults,” she added.