Former Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-pence-lays-out-timeline-for-presidential-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pence</a> will appear on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-announces-presidential-town-hall-with-nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> for a presidential town hall moderated by Dana Bash next month as the Republican mulls jumping into the GOP primary race.
The broadcast is set for Wednesday, June 7, at 9:00 p.m. ET from Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. Pence said last month that he would make a decision on running for president “well before late June,” and with a presidential town hall lined up, the former vice president’s decision appears to be coming within the next two weeks. 
Pence will field questions from the CNN anchor and a live audience made up of Iowa Republicans who plan to take part in the Iowa caucuses. The cable news network will hold a presidential town hall with GOP candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-announces-presidential-town-hall-with-nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley</a> on June 4, which will also take place in Iowa and be moderated by Jake Tapper. 
CNN held a town hall with former President Donald Trump on May 10 in a move that the network took heat for as Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-brings-rigged-election-fight-to-cnn-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparred</a> with CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins over the 2020 election and the events of January 6. 
Pence, who lost favor with Trump following the January 6 Capitol riot, will likely face many questions regarding his relationship with the former president. In an <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mike-pence-voters-ready-move-past-trump-fresh/story?id=97926749#:~:text=Stream%20on-,Mike%20Pence%20says%20voters%20are%20ready%20to%20move%20past%20Trump,%2C%22%20he%20told%20ABC%20News.&amp;text=ABC%20News'%20Jonathan%20Karl%20interviews,%2C%20on%20%E2%80%9CThis%20Week.%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC interview</a> in March, Pence said it was time for the Republican Party to move on from Trump and have a “fresh start.”
&#8220;I think the American people long for leadership at the highest level that&#8217;s focused on the issues that are affecting their lives. And also, I think they longed for leadership that will keep faith with our highest traditions,&#8221; Pence said. 
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Early Republican presidential polling shows Trump leading the pack with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-releases-campaign-launch-video-twitter-launch-crashes-app-as-servers-strained" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> his candidacy Wednesday, coming in second. Pence currently polls around 5% in lockstep with Haley. Other declared Republican candidates <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling</a> below 5% include Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Former South Carolina Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley</a> will participate in a presidential town hall with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> next month, the cable news network announced on Wednesday.
The event is scheduled to take place in the early-voting state of Iowa on Sunday, June 4, at 8 p.m. ET, <a href="https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2023/05/24/cnn-to-host-republican-presidential-town-hall-with-former-south-carolina-governor-nikki-haley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to a press release</a>. Jake Tapper, a CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent, is expected to moderate.
&#8220;Haley, who also served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration, will take questions from Tapper and a live audience which is comprised of Iowa Republicans and Iowa voters, who say they will pre-register to participate in the Republican caucuses by the deadline set by the Republican Party of Iowa; and pledge to appear in person at the caucuses,&#8221; the press release said.
CNN held its first Republican presidential town hall earlier this month with former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire, a move that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-scorched-inside-and-out-by-leftist-backlash-over-trump-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stoked leftist outrage</a>. That broadcast drew more than 3 million viewers, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/05/11/cnn-trump-town-hall-tv-ratings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Nielsen ratings</a>, and made headlines for Trump&#8217;s comments about Ukraine, the debt ceiling, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-brings-rigged-election-fight-to-cnn-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clash with anchor Kaitlan Collins</a>.
During the first couple months of Haley&#8217;s campaign, CNN became involved in controversy when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cnn-fires-don-lemon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-fired anchor Don Lemon</a> said Haley was not &#8220;in her prime.&#8221; He was responding to Haley advocating for mental <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/15/nikki-haley-competency-tests-00083018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">competency tests for politicians</a> over the age of 75. Haley shot back with a tweet. “To be clear, I am NOT calling for competency tests for Sexist middle-aged CNN anchors; only for people who make our laws and are 75+,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-torches-sexist-middle-aged-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-in-viral-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she posted</a>.
Haley, who has also called for a <a href="https://rollcall.com/2023/04/25/nikki-haley-calls-for-national-consensus-on-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;national consensus&#8221;</a> on abortion, is averaging <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about 4%</a> in the GOP primary polls. Trump leads the field, <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per the FiveThirtyEight</a>.
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There are a number of other GOP candidates in the race, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-warns-trump-indictment-would-be-national-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-scott-opens-his-presidential-bid-in-hometown-speech-bashing-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-gop-governor-announces-presidential-bid-calls-on-trump-to-drop-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson</a>. Others who are either expected to enter the contest or are considering a campaign include <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-officially-declaring-presidential-run-during-event-with-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida Governor Ron DeSantis</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-pence-lays-out-timeline-for-presidential-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former Vice President Mike Pence</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-gop-governor-chris-christie-trump-is-the-only-republican-biden-can-beat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie</a>.
CNN says it plans to announce additional town halls in the coming weeks.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> responded on Tuesday to E. Jean Carroll&#8217;s move this week asking a federal judge to amend her defamation lawsuit against the former president by asking for an additional $10 million because of comments that he made about her during a CNN town hall event.
&#8220;I don’t know E. Jean Carroll, I never met her or touched her ￼(except on a celebrity line with her African American husband who she disgustingly called the &#8216;Ape,&#8217;), I wouldn’t want to know or touch her, I never abused her or raped her or took her to a dressing room 25 years ago in a crowded department store where the doors are LOCKED, she has no idea when, or did anything else to her, except deny her Fake, Made Up Story, that she wrote in a book,&#8221; Trump posted on social media. &#8220;IT NEVER HAPPENED, IS A TOTAL SCAM, UNFAIR TRIAL!&#8221;
&#8220;The Carroll case is part of the Democrats playbook to tarnish my name and person, much like the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the 51 Intelligence Agents, FBI/Twitter Files, and so much more,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is being funded and tried by Democrat operatives, although this was denied by them, and when they got caught in the lie, the Clinton appointed judge would not let us use it in trial. Time will prove him to be highly partisan &amp; very unfair. Where’s the dress she said she had?&#8221;
A federal jury in New York found Trump liable on May 9 of committing battery against Carroll and later defaming her when he vociferously denied her claim that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. The defamation lawsuit involved Trump’s comments from a Truth Social post in October 2022, referring to Carroll’s allegations as a “complete con job” and saying that she “is not my type.”
Nine members of a civil trial jury ordered Trump to pay $5 million to Carroll in damages — taking just two and half hours of deliberation to reach the unanimous verdict — two weeks ago.
Attorneys representing Carroll, 79, proposed amendments on Monday to the first of her two defamation lawsuits against Trump, which would hold the former president liable for remarks made at a CNN broadcast on May 10.
“Trump’s defamatory statements post-verdict show the depth of his malice toward Carroll since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will, or spite,” the lawyers wrote in the complaint. “This conduct supports a very substantial punitive damages award in Carroll’s favor both to punish Trump, to deter him from engaging in further defamation, and to deter others from doing the same.”
During the town hall, the former president called the verdict a “fake story” and denied he knew Carroll.
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“She’s a whack job,” Trump said, adding, “What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up, and within minutes you’re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room.”
According to Reuters, attorneys for Carroll said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday that because “Trump’s alleged defamatory statements were essentially the same, the only open issues are whether he was immune for making the first statement, and if not what damages he owes.”
Attorneys for Trump filed a notice of appeal in New York on May 11, contesting the federal jury’s verdict that found him liable for committing battery and defamation.

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Former President Donald Trump could face an additional $10 million in damages in a defamation case filed by writer E. Jean Carroll for having &#8220;doubled down&#8221; on remarks made about her during a town hall event on CNN.
A federal jury in New York found Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-appeals-carroll-verdict-as-carroll-mulls-over-filing-third-defamation-lawsuit-over-town-hall-remarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">liable</a> on May 9 of committing battery against Carroll and later defaming her when he vociferously denied her claim that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. The defamation lawsuit involved Trump&#8217;s comments from a Truth Social post in October 2022, referring to Carroll&#8217;s allegations as a &#8220;complete con job&#8221; and saying that she &#8220;is not my type.&#8221;
Nine members of a civil trial jury ordered Trump to pay $5 million to Carroll in damages — taking just two and half hours of deliberation to reach the unanimous verdict — two weeks ago.
Attorneys representing Carroll, 79, proposed amendments on Monday to the first of her two defamation lawsuits against Trump, which would hold the former president liable for remarks made at a CNN broadcast on May 10.
&#8220;Trump&#8217;s defamatory statements post-verdict show the depth of his malice toward Carroll since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will, or spite,&#8221; the lawyers wrote in the <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18418220/157/1/carroll-v-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a>. &#8220;This conduct supports a very substantial punitive damages award in Carroll&#8217;s favor both to punish Trump, to deter him from engaging in further defamation, and to deter others from doing the same.&#8221;
During the town hall, the former president called the verdict a &#8220;fake story&#8221; and denied he knew Carroll.
&#8220;She&#8217;s a whack job,&#8221; Trump said, adding, &#8220;What kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up, and within minutes you&#8217;re playing hanky-panky in a dressing room.&#8221;
Trump continued to deny the accusation in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, claiming the Carroll case is &#8220;part of the Democrats playbook to tarnish&#8221; his name and likeness.
&#8220;It is being funded and tried by Democrat operatives, although this was denied by them, and when they got caught in the lie, the Clinton appointed judge would not let us use it in trial,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110417846464005356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Time will prove him to be highly partisan &amp; very unfair. Where&#8217;s the dress she said she had?&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/e-jean-carroll-seeks-new-damages-trump-over-post-verdict-statements-2023-05-22/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>, attorneys for Carroll said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Monday that because &#8220;Trump&#8217;s alleged defamatory statements were essentially the same, the only open issues are whether he was immune for making the first statement, and if not what damages he owes.&#8221;
Attorneys for Trump filed a notice of appeal in New York on May 11, contesting the federal jury&#8217;s verdict that found him liable for committing battery and defamation.

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CNN anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-releases-statement-about-kaitlan-collins-performance-during-trump-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kaitlan Collins</a> will take over the prime time slot vacated by recently-ousted anchor Chris Cuomo, the network announced on Wednesday.
Network CEO Chris Licht <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/business/media/cnn-kaitlan-collins.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that Collins, 31, would host the 9 p.m. ET slot on weeknights beginning sometime in June — the highest-rated hour on CNN prior to Cuomo&#8217;s departure in late 2021 — but the title of her show has not yet been announced.
&#8220;Kaitlan will showcase why she’s one of the top reporters and interviewers in the game. She is a smart and gifted journalist who we’ve all seen hold lawmakers and newsmakers accountable. She pushes politicians off their talking points, gets real answers – and as everyone who’s worked with her knows – breaks a lot of news. Kaitlan will expose uncovered angles and challenge conventional wisdom to make sure viewers are seeing a story from every side,&#8221; Licht <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/cnn-kaitlan-collins-chris-licht-upfront-1235369840/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN staffers</a> in an internal memo.
The move comes just a week after Collins served as the solo host for an often contentious CNN town hall event with former President Donald Trump, drawing both criticism and praise for her handling of the situation.
Peacock host Mehdi Hasan (&#8220;The Mehdi Hasan Show&#8221;) wrote an op-ed claiming that CNN had &#8220;set Collins up to fail&#8221; when she was named to host the town hall, saying, &#8220;The network put its star anchor and interviewer Kaitlan Collins in a room full of Trump supporters, who laughed at their cult leader’s crass jokes and applauded his cheap insults — including jabs at Collins herself.&#8221;
But a panel of commentators at CNN disagreed, referring to Collins as a &#8220;matador against a bull&#8221; and praising her for holding her ground against the former president.
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Collins previously served as a reporter for The Daily Caller and as CNN&#8217;s White House correspondent — and has since worked alongside anchor Poppy Harlow and Don Lemon before his recent and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cnn-fires-don-lemon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abrupt exit</a> on &#8220;CNN This Morning.&#8221;
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Harlow will continue to host &#8220;This Morning,&#8221; and for the time being, she will be joined by a rotating series of co-anchors.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-wants-barack-obama-to-lead-a-hotline-to-save-america-from-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barack Obama</a> claimed that since he left the White House in January 2017, the divided media was the thing that truly kept him up at night.
Obama spoke with “CBS Mornings” co-host Nate Burleson about the divided nature of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-lets-media-have-it-for-ignoring-border-crisis-the-joke-is-on-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media</a> — and how that translates to a divided America.
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Barack Obama: &quot;The thing&#8230;I&#39;m most worried about is&#8230;a divided conversation in part b/c we have a divided media&#8230;When I was growing up, you had three TV stations&#8230;We almost occupy different realities.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/KrNWHjSgap">pic.twitter.com/KrNWHjSgap</a>
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&#8220;The thing that I&#8217;m most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media, a splintered media,” Obama said.
The former president went on to reference the time before cable news, the internet, and the 24-hour news cycle — when most Americans got their news from three main networks and everyone could at least agree on what the facts were in any given situation.
“Today what I&#8217;m most concerned about is the fact that, because of the splintering of the media we almost occupy different realities, right?” Obama said. “If something happens that, you know, in the past everybody could say, &#8216;All right, we may disagree on how to solve it, but at least we all agree that, yeah, that&#8217;s an issue.’”
“Now people will say, &#8216;Well, that didn&#8217;t happen,&#8217; or, &#8216;I don&#8217;t believe that,&#8217; or, &#8216;I don&#8217;t care about the science,&#8217; or, &#8216;I&#8217;m not concerned about these experts, you know, cause they&#8217;re just all liberals&#8217; or, you know, &#8216;That&#8217;s just conservative propaganda,'&#8221; he added.
Obama then said that one of his goals with regard to the Obama Foundation was to explore ways to bring the conversation back to where people could at least agree on a common set of facts as a jumping-off point.
“How do we return to that common conversation? How can we have a common set of facts?” he asked.
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During the same interview, the former president also addressed the topics of gun violence and mass shootings — and he argued that the gun control argument had become more political than necessary.
“It has become sort of a proxy for arguments about our culture wars, you know? Urban versus rural. Race is always an element in these issues. Issues of &#8230; class, and &#8230; education and so forth,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Instead of thinking about it in a very pragmatic way, we end up really arguing about identity, and emotion, and all kinds of stuff that does not have to do with keeping our children safe.”

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Just a couple of months ago, the cost of a dozen eggs surpassed the price of a pound of beef, marking the first time that’s happened since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping <a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2023/eggflation-rate-lower-milk-prices-decrease-in-february-2023.htm">data</a> in 1980.
The average price of a dozen large Grade A eggs was $4.82 in January 2023, while a pound of ground beef was $4.64. In January 2022, eggs were $1.93, and beef was $4.77, but egg prices have soared by 70% in the last year alone.
Back then, the mainstream media blamed it on avian flu, inflation, and supply chain issues. And just on Monday, CNN weighed in with a new <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/business/egg-prices/index.html">story</a> headlined, &#8220;Egg prices are crashing. Here’s why.&#8221;
But the story was riddled with oddities.
&#8220;As of last week, Midwest large eggs — the benchmark for eggs sold in their shells — cost just $0.94 per dozen in the wholesale market, according to Urner Barry, an independent price reporting agency,&#8221; CNN reported. &#8220;That’s a sharp fall from $5.46 per carton just six months ago. (In retail, prices are well above $1 per carton, though they too have been declining.)&#8221;
CNN put that price drop down to &#8220;a reversal of supply-demand trends,&#8221; claiming that prices soared as chicken farmers paid higher prices for food and fuel.
But then the network said <a href="https://archive.is/sXaR3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a>: &#8220;The disruptions gave producers like Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), the largest US egg distributor, cover to hike prices way up and rake in huge profits.&#8221;
Whoa, hang on. I thought the egg producers were hurting, what with all this avian flu and inflation. Now you say they had huge profits?
That part is accurate. Cal-Maine Foods more than doubled its revenue in the first quarter of 2023 to nearly a billion dollars — and profits surged 718%, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-dozen-eggs-now-cost-more-than-a-pound-of-beef-heres-why">reported</a>. And production wasn’t down. Cal-Maine, which controls about 20% of the domestic egg market, said the total number of eggs it sold rose by 1%, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/business/egg-profits-cal-maine/index.html">reported</a>.
Eventually CNN gets around to the real reason egg prices are falling &#8212; &#8220;demand hasn’t kept pace.&#8221;
That&#8217;s right. When retailers began charging $7, $8, even $10 a dozen and higher, buyers went, nuh uh.
“Shoppers are budget conscious at that time,” Brian Earnest, lead economist for animal protein in CoBank, told CNN. &#8220;So typically, they’re probably putting more eggs in their basket than they normally do. But if you’ve got a high price environment, they’re not over-buying.”
Farm Action, a farmer-led advocacy group, knew the real story all along. It said the “real culprit” behind sky-high prices is a “collusive scheme” among top U.S. egg producers to fix prices to gouge consumers.
In a January <a href="https://farmaction.us/2023/01/19/farm-action-calls-for-ftc-to-investigate-record-high-egg-prices/?utm_source=substack&amp;amp;amp;amp;utm_medium=email">letter</a> to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Farm Action said the alleged collusion has helped egg producers “extract egregious profits reaching as high as 40%.”
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The letter said avian flu was never to blame. “Examining publicly-available financial data from the egg industry, the letter determines that the supply disruption caused by the avian flu outbreak had an ‘apparently mild impact on the industry,&#8217;” the group said in a press release.
“In the end, what Cal-Maine Foods and the other large egg producers did last year — and seem to be intent on doing again this year — is extort billions of dollars from the pockets of ordinary Americans through what amounts to a tax on a staple we all need: eggs,” the letter states.
At the time of its letter, Farm Action didn&#8217;t know how right they&#8217;d be: Cal-Maine&#8217;s profits would soar 718% in the next three months.
In the end, egg producers just saw an opportunity to jack up prices with inflation soaring across the country. Now, having gouged consumers &#8212; who backed away in droves &#8212; they&#8217;re dropping their prices.
That&#8217;s the real reason.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn">CNN</a> anchor Jake Tapper admitted Monday that the long-awaited 2016 Trump-Russia investigation report from special counsel John Durham exonerates the former president &#8220;to a degree.&#8221;
&#8220;The report is now here. It has dropped, and it might not have produced everything of what some Republicans hoped for,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;It is, regardless, devastating to the FBI, and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump.&#8221;
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TAPPER: Durham report is &quot;devastating to the FBI and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/DC30fNpEve">pic.twitter.com/DC30fNpEve</a>
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Durham, who former Attorney General Bill Barr tasked to examine the propriety of the FBI&#8217;s investigation of President Trump, released a 306-page report Monday that found that the FBI had no evidence to support a Trump-Russia scandal when it began its investigation and found &#8220;sobering&#8221; differences in how it approached the Trump probe compared to other politically sensitive investigations.
&#8220;Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we concluded the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report,&#8221; the report says.
&#8220;The FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – both then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probably cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of foreign power,&#8221; the report said.
Tapper&#8217;s remarks over the report stirred up backlash across social media Monday.
Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, called Tapper &#8220;Patient Zero&#8221; for pushing the alleged collusion back in January 2017.
&#8220;He deliberately helped kick off the hysteria with his &#8216;reporting&#8217; on Comey&#8217;s bogus meeting to set-up Trump using the dossier, which fueled the hoax for years,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;Tapper should personally apologize for his role.&#8221;&#8216;
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Tapper was Patient Zero for the collusion hoax back in January of 2017. He deliberately helped kick off the hysteria with his &quot;reporting&quot; on Comey&#39;s bogus meeting to set-up Trump using the dossier, which fueled the hoax for years. Tapper should personally apologize for his role. <a href="https://t.co/mgxPIMkgdB">https://t.co/mgxPIMkgdB</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1658217025448058895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Former CNN sports correspondent Keith Olbermann called Tapper&#8217;s remarks the network&#8217;s latest scandal.
&#8220;@jaketapper says the Durham Report is &#8216;devastating to the FBI,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;It isn&#8217;t. Not even close. No charges, just partisan &#8220;conclusions.&#8221; And Tapper of the new non-journalistic Chris Licht CNN is propagandizing.&#8221;
&#8220;Jake Tapper needs to resign,&#8221; he added.
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CNN&#39;s new scandal:<a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> says the Durham Report is &quot;devastating to the FBI&quot;
It isn&#39;t. Not even close. No charges, just partisan &quot;conclusions.&quot; And Tapper of the new non-journalistic Chris Licht CNN is propagandizing
Jake Tapper needs to resign <a href="https://t.co/EcJo6qwfA3">pic.twitter.com/EcJo6qwfA3</a>
&mdash; Keith Olbermann↙️ (@KeithOlbermann) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1658227637586673664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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CNN’s Jake Tapper Says Durham Report Devastating To FBI, Exonerates Trump ‘To A Degree’

CNN's Jake Tapper Says Durham Report Devastating To FBI, Exonerates Trump 'To A Degree'

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Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Donald J. Trump</a> has defied the odds again after becoming arguably the only Republican to do a CNN town hall and come away looking better for it. Yet, just because Wednesday night&#8217;s event was a boon for the 45th president does not mean that President Joe Biden — or CNN, for that matter — had a bad night.
In fact, it may have been a good event for all three.
Trump was vintage Trump. Replete with comedic timing, plain language policy, and politically incorrect jabs, he reminded many why he is so loved by a large swath of the country. They say you can judge a man by his enemies, and boy is that ever the case for Teflon Don and his audience at St. Anselm&#8217;s College that cheered on the GOP 2024 frontrunner. Just look how Joy Behar of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; reacted to Trump and his supporters.
&#8220;I have to say — start this off with — I was wrong,” Behar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-would-like-to-know-if-cnn-was-passing-out-kool-aid-joy-behar-rages-over-republican-audience-at-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “[Sunny Hostin] said they shouldn’t show him and I said they should because I’m a very big defender of the First Amendment and I believe that everybody should show who they really are, and let’s vote accordingly.”
“What I didn’t know was that the audience would be filled with his cult!” she added. “I would like to know if CNN was passing out Kool-Aid before the event started.”
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&quot;That is not American!&quot; Joy Behar RAGES at CNN for having Republican voters at their Trump town hall, served them Kool-Aid. &quot;What I didn&#39;t know was that the audience would be filled with his cult!&quot; &quot;Why would CNN put only Republicans and people who love me in the audience?!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/uW06fJP0ER">pic.twitter.com/uW06fJP0ER</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1656679174654836736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Behar was not alone.
Leftists such as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and even CNN&#8217;s own Oliver Darcy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-scorched-inside-and-out-by-leftist-backlash-over-trump-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questioned and scolded</a> the network for showcasing Trump in the first place:
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It&#39;s hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening. More in <a href="https://twitter.com/ReliableSources?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ReliableSources</a>: <a href="https://t.co/Rg44NsPLvb">https://t.co/Rg44NsPLvb</a>
&mdash; Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1656519076708007938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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If you’re wondering how things went tonight for Trump, AOC is having a melt down over the fact this town hall even aired. Which means it was a big win for Trump. <a href="https://t.co/jHNij5eAUO">pic.twitter.com/jHNij5eAUO</a>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1656469095796158465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Though they feign outrage over Trump&#8217;s alleged &#8220;lies,&#8221; perhaps the real reason they were upset is that it gave the only president in recent history with no new wars under his belt a platform to advocate for things such as peace in Ukraine.
&#8220;I don’t think about it in terms of winning and losing, I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,&#8221; Trump said when asked who he sides with in the conflict.
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CNN: &quot;Do you want Ukraine to win this war?&quot;
Trump: &quot;I don’t think about it in terms of winning and losing, I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people&quot;
*Massive audience applause* 
People just want peace. <a href="https://t.co/jJWkhGkBGG">pic.twitter.com/jJWkhGkBGG</a>
&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1656466455607537664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In short, throughout much of the performance, Trump crushed CNN, cemented his place as the lead GOP candidate, and expounded on his solutions to fix Biden&#8217;s messes. For example, he explained the solution to Biden&#8217;s energy crisis: &#8220;Drill baby drill.&#8221;
That does not mean he did not give the Biden camp any fodder for the weeks ahead.
As flagged by writer Pedro Gonzalez, Biden&#8217;s &#8220;aides couldn’t be happier because they saw &#8216;weeks worth of damning content,&#8217; and they’re going to put it to use for 2024.&#8221;
That includes comments that can be taken out of context, such as his remarks about the events on January 6, &#8220;rigged&#8221; elections, and other issues.
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On Twitter, Trump emerged triumphant from the CNN town hall, and it’s over for Biden. 
In reality, Biden was the biggest winner. His aides couldn’t be happier because they saw “weeks worth of damning content,” and they’re going to put it to use for 2024. <a href="https://t.co/HJ4lpHLgI1">https://t.co/HJ4lpHLgI1</a> <a href="https://t.co/HonESg74KA">pic.twitter.com/HonESg74KA</a>
&mdash; Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) <a href="https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1656626438882066433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Of course, it is early, and the American people tend to have short memories in politics, so Trump can overcome those errors. Yet, as Gonzalez also noted, the 2020 election, abortion, and painting the entire GOP as a party of insurrectionists was a key part of the Democratic Party&#8217;s playbook in 2022 — and it worked.
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But, perhaps Trump — or any GOP candidate for that matter — can use what we now know about Big Tech censorship of Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop and other damaging stories, the CIA&#8217;s alleged interference in the 2020 race, as well as the lapdog media&#8217;s non-stop public relations campaign for the Left as proof that the 2020 election was &#8220;rigged&#8221; for Biden — but not necessarily via election fraud as described by Trump.
Critics say that Trump won&#8217;t shut his yap about the 2020 election, but as one astute town hall viewer told the outlet, CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins was the one who brought up the past in the first place:
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CNN: Why won’t Trump stop talking about 2020 and not 2024? 
Voter: Well the first question you asked him was about 2020 <a href="https://t.co/Sy80LgwkG5">pic.twitter.com/Sy80LgwkG5</a>
&mdash; Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1656522902391386112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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So, then, what is to become of CNN? Well, the Right is saying that Collins was awful, a typical CNN whiner who saw it as her duty to try and debate the president — rather than allow him to speak to the audience and answer relevant questions. The Left is claiming that CNN essentially fraternized with a terrorist by giving him airtime.
Yet, CNN CEO Chris Licht woke up the morning feeling great about it all, according to one report.  Licht allegedly told CNN staffers Thursday that &#8220;America was served very well by what we did last night” and Collins had a &#8220;masterful performance.&#8221; 
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Covering Trump is &quot;tricky and messy,&quot; Licht says, and it will &quot;continue to be messy and tricky, but it&#39;s our job.&quot; He confidently says &quot;America was served very well by what we did last night.&quot; Many CNN employees strongly disagree.
&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1656647562173067265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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There is another reason Licht might be happy: Everybody is talking about his media company. The only thing worse in show business than being talked about is not being talked about at all, as the saying goes.  The ratings might show that the event was good for CNN&#8217;s bottom line.
So, it is possible that Trump, Biden, and CNN all walked away winners after Wednesday night&#8217;s event. Time will tell how that shapes the 2024 GOP primary and general election.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Town Hall Reaction: Good For Trump, Good For Biden, Bad For CNN?

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This week, former President Donald Trump appeared on a CNN townhall. That day, he trumpeted the upcoming event on his social media platforms. “I’ll be doing CNN tonight live from the great state of New Hampshire because CNN is rightfully desperate to get those Trump ratings back,” Trump said with a wry grin. “They were ratings like none other, and they want them back. They made me a deal they couldn’t refuse. It could be the beginning of a new and vibrant CNN with no more fake news, or it could be a total disaster for all, including me. Let’s see what happens, tonight at eight o’clock!”
Trump pitched the event like a WWE Monday Night Raw.
And it was.
It was kayfabe of the highest order. And it helped Trump immensely.
CNN pitched the event as a kickoff to primary season. In that spirit, they invited Republican primary voters from New Hampshire to fill the auditorium. Moderator Kaitlan Collins, presumably, would ask questions that Republican voters cared about. They would then be able to use Trump’s answers to gauge whether to vote for him.
That’s not what happened.
Instead, Collins asked a series of questions only Democrats care about. She asked about January 6. She asked about Trump’s election denial. She asked about classified documents. She asked about E. Jean Carroll. In short, Collins provided Trump with precisely what he wanted: an adversarial CNN foe he could absolutely pummel, to the delight of the friendly crowd. The entire event played to Trump’s strengths: he was aggressive; he was funny, and transgressively funny at that (of E. Jean Carroll, he noted disbelievingly, “her cat was named vagina!”); and he refused to give an inch on any of his positions.
Trump under fire from the Left draws nothing but admiration from most Republicans, who constantly feel that they are scurrilously attacked but rarely see a defender willing to go dirty to defend them. Trump defending himself deploys the methodologies they wish Republican politicians would use to defend them. And so CNN boosted Trump.
CNN found itself on the wrong end of the outrage machine from the liberal commentariat. The irrepressibly insipid Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted, “CNN should be ashamed of themselves…Everyone here saw exactly what was going to happen.” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough likened the event to January 6. The Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona related that a CNN on-air personality couldn’t stop lamenting the “Trump infomercial.”
But was the event bad for CNN? Not really. As Trump – who always says the quiet part out loud, for good and ill – stated, CNN brought in the ratings. What’s more, CNN wants Trump to be the nominee, for both fiscal and political reasons. Trump does indeed mean eyeballs, and eyeballs mean cash. And coincidentally, top Democrats want Trump to be the nominee; Joe Biden tweeted minutes after the townhall, “It’s simple, folks. Do you want four more years of that?”
For now, Trump is the clear frontrunner among the Republican candidates. Perhaps his star will dim as he focuses consistently on his own personal Festivus grievances. Or perhaps the media will continue to boost him, providing him with just the adversarial opposition he needs in order to appeal to his base. If the past is any guide, the latter seems far more likely. And then we’ll find out whether the Republican base, which apparently believes in Trump’s electoral invulnerability despite the elections of 2018, 2020 and 2022, is correct – or whether the Democratic base and the media, who apparently believe Trump can’t possibly win despite the election of 2016, are mistaken.

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MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-scarborough-blames-greg-abbott-for-mall-shooting-and-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Scarborough</a> unloaded on former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-brings-rigged-election-fight-to-cnn-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> CNN town hall event, calling it &#8220;bad for democracy, bad for media but even worse for Donald Trump.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-scarborough-reads-biden-admin-the-riot-act-over-classified-docs-fumble-amateur-hour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scarborough</a> recapped his thoughts during Thursday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; saying that the Wednesday evening town hall was &#8220;as chilling as anything I&#8217;ve seen on television since January 6th.&#8221;
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&quot;This isn&#39;t Putin&#39;s Russia. This is Trump&#39;s slice of America. And what I saw last night, at least, was as chilling as anything I&#39;ve seen on television since January 6th.&quot; 
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Throughout the course of the event, moderated by &#8220;CNN This Morning&#8221; host and former White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins, a combative Trump pushed back on prevailing narratives and complained about the 2020 presidential election – and Scarborough compared Trump&#8217;s &#8220;slice of America&#8221; to Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia.
&#8220;The most shocking part was an audience who cheered on a president who tried to overturn American democracy, an audience that mocked and ridiculed the woman who a jury of her peers, Donald Trump’s peers, found had been sexually assaulted,&#8221; Scarborough said.
He went on to complain about Trump&#8217;s claim that he could put an abrupt end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, arguing that Trump had &#8220;basically&#8221; said he would surrender Ukraine to Putin without a fight.
&#8220;You can go piece by piece by piece to talk about how breathtakingly dangerous what we saw was last night. This virus of lies that’s been loosened on the American people,&#8221; Scarborough continued.
&#8220;But what we saw tonight was it was a propagandist, and it was a propaganda spewing lies repeatedly, over and over and over and over and over again, and an audience, an American audience lapping it up. This isn’t Putin’s Russia. This is Trump’s slice of America. And what I saw last night, at least, was as chilling as anything I’ve seen on television since January 6th,&#8221; he concluded.
But despite the danger he believed was obvious, Scarborough complained that Trump&#8217;s campaign would still lap it up and claim a victory &#8220;because they&#8217;re stupid.&#8221;
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&#8220;There is, this morning, a lightning bolt going through the American electorate and it&#8217;s reminding everybody the stakes of a second Donald Trump presidency,&#8221; he said.
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&quot;There is, this morning, a lightning bolt going through the American electorate and it&#39;s reminding everybody the stakes of a second Donald Trump presidency. Last night was bad for democracy, bad for media but even worse for Donald Trump.&quot; &#8212;<a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joenbc</a> <a href="https://t.co/PhETF21vmj">pic.twitter.com/PhETF21vmj</a>
&mdash; Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) <a href="https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/1656627627988250626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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‘Morning Joe’ Host Whines That Trump Town Hall Was Just As ‘Chilling’ As January 6th

'Morning Joe’ Host Joe Scarborough Whines That Trump Town Hall Was Just As 'Chilling' As January 6th

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-blames-east-palestine-residents-for-train-disaster-because-they-voted-for-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Behar</a> complained on Thursday that CNN had stacked former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-brings-rigged-election-fight-to-cnn-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> Wednesday evening town hall with Republicans.
Behar joined her co-hosts on ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; and the episode opened with comments about the former president&#8217;s event — hosted by CNN anchor and former White House correspondent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-much-to-do-with-business-as-it-did-with-science-cnns-kaitlan-collins-corners-cdc-director-on-new-guidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kaitlan Collins</a>.
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Sara Haines had to inform Behar that town halls ahead of primaries are usually filled with members of the candidate&#39;s party. <a href="https://t.co/9hKH2LpwnY">pic.twitter.com/9hKH2LpwnY</a>
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&#8220;So yesterday, CNN had a town hall with You-Know-Who,&#8221; co-host Whoopi Goldberg began in a sing-song voice. The audience laughed, and Goldberg continued by taking a shot at the network: &#8220;And for me, CNN showed that they were a ball-free zone. What&#8217;d y&#8217;all think?&#8221;
Behar then said that she wouldn&#8217;t have argued in favor of CNN holding a Trump town hall — which she admitted she only supported because she was a fan of the First Amendment — if she had realized that the audience was going to be made up of mostly Republicans.
&#8220;I have to say — start this off with — I was wrong,&#8221; Behar began. &#8220;[Sunny Hostin] said they shouldn&#8217;t show him and I said they should, because I&#8217;m a very big defender of the First Amendment and I believe that everybody should show who they really are, and let&#8217;s vote accordingly.&#8221;
&#8220;What I didn&#8217;t know was that the audience would be filled with his cult!&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I would like to know if CNN was passing out Kool-Aid before the event started.&#8221;
Behar went on to complain that Trump had &#8220;trashed&#8221; rape accuser E. Jean Carroll during the event, asking whether she could sue him for defamation again — after winning $5 million in damages in her case against him earlier this week.
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&#8220;And when he was trashing her, this annoying audience was clapping,&#8221; Behar added, once again complaining that the audience had been filled with Trump&#8217;s fans. &#8220;Why would CNN put only Republicans and people who love him in the audience?&#8221;
Co-host Sara Haines pointed out a short time later that town hall audiences during election primaries were typically made up of members of the candidate&#8217;s party.

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‘I Would Like To Know If CNN Was Passing Out Kool-Aid’: Joy Behar Rages Over Republican Audience At Town Hall

Joy Behar Rages Over Republican Audience At Town Hall

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