Philip Bump: “Even if they wanted to, a live broadcast has an unalterable constraint: time… Trump can easily throw out more nonsense than CNN has time to fact-check, even if it intended to.”
“So what’s the value? It’s good to get Trump on-record on issues, particularly from a news outlet such as CNN that is going to be less credulous and obsequious than Trump’s usual interlocutors. But in this format, that seems less likely. Trump is already well into the habit of saying the same things over and over in interviews; given predictable jumping-off points from average people, he’ll have lots of opportunity to continue to do so.”
Charlotte Klein: “The network says it’s treating Trump like any other presidential candidate—but what does that look like for an indicted election truther?”
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