We're looking to our at CNN some college and Manchester new Hampshire tonight to CNN

town hall moderated by Caitlin Collins.

The first of the 2024 presidential campaign is now in the books, good evening from New

York.

Hello from Washington.

It was an interesting night.

Mr. Trump's first lie was told just seconds into the night with his false familiar claim

that the 2020 election was, quote, a rigged election.

And the falsehoods kept coming fast and furious about the January 6th insurrection, about

the threat of vice president Pence, about Pence's ability to overturn the election, about

COVID, about the economy and more.

He called a black law enforcement officer a thug.

He said people here in Washington, DC at Chinatown don't speak English.

He attacked Caitlin as a nasty woman because she was trying to get him to answer a question.

Perhaps most chillingly, the day after a nine person jury of his peers in New York found

him liable for sexual battery and defamation and ordered him to pay, writer E. Jean Carroll

for $5 million, he made fun of her account, of her sexual assault.

And many in the audience laughed.

The and applauded the former president making his first appearance tonight on this network

since the 2016 election.

He spoke with and took questions from the Hampshire Republican and undeclared voters who

planned to take part in the GOP primary and it took place just a day after a, as Jake

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