Former President Donald Trump was as sharp as ever during his CNN townhall event, at one point pulling out a sheet of paper to fact-check the oevrmatched Kaitlan Collins in realtime and win over the CNN live audience with his trademark wit and quips.
At one point in their conversation, Collins repeated the oft-used attack of accusing Trump of encouraging his supporters to “attack” the Capitol on January 6 before claiming that Trump did not tell them to go home until three hours after violence erupted. Never mind clips of the historic day have been edited to remove him urging protestors to peacefully make their voices heard.
“When they went to the Capitol and they were breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows, injuring police officers; why did it take you three hours to tell them to go home?” Collins asked.
“I don’t believe I did…Oh let me pull it out, I have to pull it out,” Trump responded, reaching into his suit jacket and removing a piece of paper.“So if you look at, on January 5 the day before, I said ‘please support our Capitol Police and law enforcement, they truly are on the side of our country. Stay peaceful, stay peaceful.”
BOOM. Take a look at that glorious moment below:
Trump just pulls out receipts to disprove Kaitlin Collins' claims on the CNN town hall… and the crowd cheers!
This is NOT going the way CNN wanted it to. pic.twitter.com/7byCeFkCHr
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) May 11, 2023
Trump then went on to read a number of statements he issued, while a desparate Collins could do nothing except stammer to try to regain control of the lost narrative. “If you look January 6, this is before 2:30: ‘I am asking everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful… this is right after, as it was happening,” Trump said. “But what happened is they took it down, I don’t know… I think they took it down because it was so good they didn’t like it being up there,” Trump continued, drawing laughs from the CNN crowd.
In another bit, Trump hilariously shot down Collins’ attempt to frame the recent Manhattan verdict that found him civilly liable for defamation in a decades-old assault case rescusicated by a questinable move to extend the statut of limiatations on this exact proceeding.
“A Manhattan jury found that you sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll and defamed her. You’ve denied this. But what do you say to voters who say it disqualifies you from being President?” Collins said trying to play “gotcha” with Trump.
Wasting no time nor effort, Trump quipped back: “Well, there aren’t too many of them because my poll numbers just came out.”
Trump was asked what he'd say to voters who think he should be disqualified for running for office because of the E Jean Carroll decision…
Trump: "Well there aren't too many of them because my poll numbers just came out… they went up."
The crowd CHEERS.
This isn't going… pic.twitter.com/kNHT8n7pqE
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) May 11, 2023
“They went up,” he continued. “I think I’m the only person in history had a charge like that. And usually you leave office you say, I’m sorry, but I’m going to back home. I’m back home to my family and everything I’m going to be resolved. My poll numbers went up and they went up with the other fake charge too. Because what’s happening is they’re doing this for election interference. This woman I don’t know her I never met her. I have no idea who she is.”
“I had a picture taken years ago with her and her husband nice guy, John Johnson. He was a newscaster very nice man. She called them an ape happens to be African of African American called them and they the judge wouldn’t allow us to put that in her dog, or her cat was named vagina. The judge was allowed to put that in all of these things he was with her they could put in anything access.”
Featured image: Screen shot from embedded Twitter video.
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