Tonight on The Readout, they were there proud, they were there with love in their heart,

that was an unbelievable and it was a beautiful day.

Trump's disgusting lies about January 6th, which really looked like this with death and

destruction in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.

It was all part of a disastrous and embarrassing mega town hall hosted by CNN, which made only

a half-hearted effort to fact-check him.

And Trump quite likely dug himself a deeper hole in the investigation he's facing.

Plus, breaking news with the announcement late today of criminal charges in the chokehold

death of Jordan Neely on the floor of a New York City subway train earlier this month.

But we begin with Donald Trump, who by now you know, was handed an opportunity to speak

to his fans and a national audience last night on CNN.

And it went about as well as you'd expect, because Trump was who we already knew he is,

a liar, a narcissist, and a fascist.

So it was an unmitigated disaster in every way, and a reckless insult to our democracy.

It's completely fair to say that we didn't need a town hall to find out what candidate

Trump thinks since he was president for a whole four years.

So it's not as though he needed a town hall to introduce himself.

Even worse, CNN somehow managed to stack the audience with a mega crowd that hooded

and hollered and lapped up every line like you'd expect from people who'd already voted

for him.

A Trump rally is what it actually was.

The twice impeached, liable for sexual abuse, former president, steamrolled CNN host

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