Anderson Cooper says CNN audience should be ‘outraged’ after Trump town hall
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Anderson Cooper said on Thursday that those outraged over former President Donald Trump’s CNN town hall have every right to be before going off in an apparent call to action to prevent the 45th president’s possible reelection.
“Many of you have expressed deep anger and disappointment. Many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on a stage in front of a crowd of Republican voters and answer questions and, predictably, continued to spew lie after lie after lie,” Cooper said on his program Anderson Cooper 360.
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Cooper refused to use Trump’s name and kept referring to the former president as “that person.”
“It was disturbing to see and hear that person refer to a black law enforcement officer as a ‘thug,’ an adjective he used many times to describe black men,” the CNN anchor said.
Trump called “Kaitlan Collins, the moderator, ‘nasty,’ which is what he calls any woman who stands up to him,” he continued.
Having Trump on his network lauding QAnon and spreading “ridiculous lies about the election” was “awful,” according to Cooper.
“It was certainly disturbing to hear that audience, young and old, our fellow citizens, people who love their kids and go to church, laugh at, applaud his lies and his continued defamation of a woman, who according to a jury of his peers, he sexually abused and defamed.”
Collins had an impossible task of trying to fact-check the former president, he said, and he understands why people around the country are asking why CNN gave Trump a platform.
“The man you were so disturbed to see and hear from last night, that man is the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president, and, according to polling, no other Republican is even close,” Cooper said.
“That man you were so upset to hear from last night, he may be president of the United States in less than two years, and that audience that upset you, that’s a sampling of about half the country. They are your family members, your neighbors, and they are voting.”
For those not paying attention to the former president since he left office, they need to wake up to what will really “stop him,” Cooper appeared to suggest.
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“If last night showed anything, it showed it can happen again. It is happening again. He hasn’t changed, and he is running hard,” Cooper said, speaking to the audience.
“You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again, but do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?”