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CNN faced the wrath of numerous lefty journalists and politicos over its town hall featuring former President Trump Wednesday night.
New York House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet CNN should be “ashamed of themselves.”
"They have lost total control of this 'town hall' to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim. The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host,” she said.
Former President Trump claimed that the Manhattan federal trial that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation against author E. Jean Carroll was rigged.
"I don't know her, I never met her, I don't know who he is. I had a picture taken years ago with her husband, a nice guy named John Johnson."
Trump claimed Judge Lewis Kaplan, who was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton, would not let his defense present evidence against Carroll, including that she had a cat named "Vagina" and ocalled her husband, a black newscaster, a slur.
Carroll, 79, claimed in a 2019 civil suit that Trump, 76, had raped her in a fitting room at a New York City department store, most likely in 1996 — which the jury rejected.