Cooper dials the drama up to 11.
During Thursday night’s episode of AC360, host Anderson Cooper started his show by explaining to CNN viewers “What You Saw” during Thursday night’s town hall event featuring Donald Trump.
Cooper’s monologue addressed the “disturbing” town hall audience; he acknowledged the liberal outrage, saying “Many of you have expressed deep anger and disappointment.”
The anchor even avoided saying Donald Trump’s name.
“Many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on a stage in front of a crowd of Republican voters to answer questions and predictably continued to spew lie, after lie, after lie,” he said.
“And I get it. It was disturbing,” Cooper continued. “It was disturbing to see and hear that person refer to a Black law enforcement officer a thug, an adjective he used many times to describe Black men, and called Kaitlan Collins, the moderator, ‘nasty,’ which is what he calls any woman who stands up to him. It was disturbing to hear him speak so highly of QAnon conspirators and insurrectionists who assaulted police officers and our democracy on January 6. And it was awful to hear him spread ridiculous lies about the election.”
“And it was certainly disturbing to hear that audience, young and old, our fellow citizens, people who love their kids and go to church laugh and applaud his lies and his continued defamation of woman who according to a jury of his peers he sexually abused and defamed,” Cooper continued.
“Now, many of you think CNN shouldn’t have given him any platform to speak and I understand the anger about that – giving him the audience, the time, I get that. But this is what I also get; The man you were so disturbed to see and hear from last night – that man is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president. And according to polling, no other Republican is even close,” Cooper said. “That man you were so upset to hear from last night, he may be President of the United States in less than two years. And that audience that upset you? That’s a sampling of about half the country. They are your family members, your neighbors and they are voting. And many said they’re voting for him.”
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper blasts ‘disturbing’ GOP audience at Trump town hall: ‘They are your family members’ https://t.co/9wKfOl4DFv
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