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CNN’s Trump Town Hall Wasn’t The Ratings Bonanza It Was Predicted To Be 

Supposedly, Donald Trump’s return to CNN was going to be a massive ratings win for the perennially third-place news network, and while Wednesday night’s town hall with the criminally indicted sex offender did indeed manage to lift CNN to first place in the timeslot, the overall numbers were significantly lower than an average night of primetime programming on Fox News and also much lower than the ratings CNN achieved when it featured Trump in 2016.

Former CNN media analyst Brian Stelter reported the results of the overnight ratings.

“Just in: CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump averaged 3.1 million total viewers. The event outrated Fox and MSNBC, as expected, but these are not 2015/16 level numbers for Trump — not even close.”

“In the key 25- to 54-year-old demo, the town hall averaged 703,000, about five times higher than CNN’s typical performance at 8pm.”

Here’s a comparison of the 3.1 million viewers CNN managed to draw last night in comparison to other Trump appearances on the network:

Considering that a verdict in the defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll had been handed down just a day before the town hall on CNN, the network was projected to clean up in the ratings. Instead, they managed to draw less than what Tucker Carlson used to garner on an average primetime broadcast.

The vast majority of the American viewing public is sick and tired of Donald Trump, his lies, and his vitriol. That doesn’t exactly bode well for him as he heads into the 2024 election with numerous legal problems hanging over him.

 

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Trump May Face Another Lawsuit From E. Jean Carroll For Comments At CNN Town Hall

Indicted sex offender and former president Donald Trump is facing yet another massive lawsuit as a result of remarks he made Wednesday evening during a CNN town hall.

Asked about the unanimous verdict from a New York jury that determined Trump had indeed sexually assaulted and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll, the disgraced ex-president said the accusation of rape made by Carroll was “fake” and a “made-up story.”

Asked about Trump’s comments at the town hall, Carroll remarked, “It’s just stupid, it’s just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people,” according to The New York Times.

“I am upset on the behalf of young men in America,” Carroll added. “They cannot listen to this balderdash and this old-timey view of women, which is a cave-man view.”

Will Carroll file another lawsuit against the failed one-term, twice-impeached former president? She says she’s considering doing exactly that and is in consultation with her attorneys.

On Tuesday, Trump was ordered to pay $5 million for abusing and defaming Carroll after she accused him of raping her in the dressing room of a New York department store during the 1990s. Trump didn’t testify, and the jury heard comments he made in the past about grabbing women “by the pussy” as well as testimony from other victims who allege the ex-president sexually assaulted them.

During the Wednesday evening town hall, Trump also spewed lies and vitriol about the 2020 election which he continues to insist was stolen from him, though he has yet to presented one iota of evidence to support his allegations.

Trump is also facing serious legal issues in Georgia and from Special Counsel Jack Smith.

 

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MT Greene: Melania Trump Is Proof That Republicans Support Immigration

According to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), it’s simply not fair to say that Republicans are opposed to immigration and the proof of that is their love of former First Lady Melania Trump.

During debate on a Republican border security bill, Newsweek reports, Greene began her comments on immigration by referencing the wife of failed and indicted former president/sex offender Donald Trump.

“I would like to remind everyone that Republicans believe in legal immigration,” Greene said on Wednesday. “As a matter of fact, we are very proud of our former first lady, Melania Trump, who immigrated legally to the United States. But there is a clear difference in policies when we talk about border and security for the United States of America.

“I think it is very important to remind my colleagues across the aisle what our oath of office actually says. We swear an oath that we will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

The Georgia Republican added, “That is a very important oath to swear and it is one to uphold but this is not being upheld in the past two years under this administration. We have seen nearly 5 million people cross our border and it is unsustainable.”

Greene’s claims about Melania’s immigration being legal aren’t exactly factual. As a matter of fact, there have been plenty of questions about how she managed to obtain a visa in the first place.

Mrs. Trump immigrated to the United States on an EB-1, or “Einstein visa,” which is reserved for those “of extraordinary ability” and “sustained national and international acclaim.” That usually means people Nobel Prize winners or those who have earned Olympic medals. She has neither of those and later helped her parents obtain U.S. citizenship even though they possess no special skills or awards.

While Greene may want to try and put a happy face on the Republican policy on immigration, the facts are clear: They want to keep just about everyone from coming to the U.S. unless they have connections or marry a rich sexual predator like Donald Trump.

 

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Lauren Boebert Owns Herself By Suggesting She’s Smarter Than Kamala Harris

Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is again displaying her own lack of self-awareness and basic intelligence with an attack she made on Vice President Kamala Harris, whom she accused of not being educated.

Commenting on a video she shared on Twitter of the VP making remarks, Boebert wrote, “The same people who will try and knock me for having a GED think this lady represents intelligence and eloquence. Whoever paid for her education wasted their money.”

As Uproxx rightly notes, Boebert’s reported troubles passing the GED are only one reason she’s seen as being one of the most intellectually-challenged members of Congress.

Of course, Boebert misses the point while believing that her GED is why people pile onto her on a regular basis. She has frequently trashed education to the point where she called to abolish the entire education department. And given that she only acquired her GED a mere few months before being elected to Congress, her interest in pursuing it probably had little to do with actual learning. She’s also stepped in on previous occasions by proposing a lot more time for lawmakers to read bills, so there’s that.

This isn’t the first time Boebert has humiliated herself for all the world to see.

When you act perpetually clueless and moronic, you get labeled as such, and it has nothing at all to do with a GED, as Twitter users quickly reminded the doltish Ms. Boebert.

 

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WATCH A Fox Host Tell James Comer His Biden Investigation Is A Sham: ‘You Don’t Have Any Facts’

Fox News host Steve Doocy reminded House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) that while he made headlines with his press conference on Wednesday, he failed to provide any facts that President Joe Biden or members of his family had been engaged in a influence peddling scheme.

Doocy began by telling Comer, “I know the Republicans said that the smoking gun were these financial records that you were able to subpoena and got your hands on. And your party, the Republican investigators, say that that’s proof of influence peddling by Hunter and James [Biden].”

“But that’s just your suggestion, Doocy continued. “You don’t actually have any facts to that point. You’ve got some circumstantial evidence.”

Doocy also noted, “And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn’t profit is that — there’s no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.”

Comer replied, “But make no mistake, Joe Biden was involved. All these countries that the Bidens were receiving money from were countries that Joe Biden was actively visiting in.”

If so, then where’s the evidence? It sure as hell wasn’t presented at the press conference. As usual, Republicans have lies, but they’re missing any facts.

Here’s the video from Fox News: