One of CNN’s own reporters, Oliver Darcy, was less enthused than his boss. The same old “professional lie machine” that is Trump ignoring the question, talking over the moderator, unleashing “a firehose of disinformation upon the country”. Writing in the Washington Post, Perry Bacon said CNN’s mistake was to say, in the words of its political director, David Chalian, that is it going to “treat Trump like any other presidential candidate”. That’s certainly how Trump saw it, writing on his Truth Social site shortly before the programme that CNN was “rightfully desperate to get those fantastic (TRUMP!) As it turned out, what was good for CNN and Trump was viewed by a large part of the rest of America as another disaster in the making.

Source: CNN May 14, 2023 13:28 UTC