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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Donald Trump Returns to CNN With Themes New and Old

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Sounding like the Donald Trump who appeared on CNN in 2016, the former President took the stage in front of a town hall audience filled with Republicans and undecided voters in New Hampshire. Will his non-committal answers on abortion appeal to primary voters, or will his potential GOP opponents see an opening to attack Trump on the Jan. 6 riot or his refusal to support Ukraine against Russia? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:30.0

Donald Trump and CNN, pair of old frenemies reunite for a town hall in New Hampshire

0:38.0

that has the Trump campaign staff elated and the press corps somewhere between depressed and furious.

0:48.0

Trump made a lot of news in this town hall, which in many ways was the real opening of his campaign for president.

0:54.0

Did he do himself some good politically or did he create openings for his Republican primary opponents?

1:01.0

We'll dissect.

1:03.0

The exchanges welcome, I'm Paul Gigo with the Wall Street Journal opinion page,

1:07.0

and I'm here with two of my colleagues, Kim Strassel and Kyle Peterson.

1:13.0

Welcome to you both.

1:15.0

Really quite something, Trump covered a lot of ground.

1:18.0

I thought that as Treyas, Caitlin Collins, the moderator tried, she might, to fact check him in real time,

1:25.0

it's really quite an impossible thing to do.

1:28.0

Effectively, he kind of steam rolls right over you, which I think has something to do with the reaction from the press corps,

1:35.0

enormous amount of hostility to what CNN did, and we want to talk a little bit about that.

1:39.0

But let's hit some of the news points.

1:41.0

Let's start with Mike Pence and January 6, which is a big focus of Caitlin Collins,

1:47.0

and whether Donald Trump and that riot had threatened Mike Pence on that day.

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