The CNN live broadcast with Donald Trump had been eagerly awaited. He ended up using the stage for electoral lies, anti-migrant hate speech and to mock the woman who got him a sex abuse conviction.
Barely 24 hours after being found guilty in a civil lawsuit of sexual abuse, Donald Trump sits in a white leather chair on the stage at the private Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. Live as a guest at a public question hour from CNN – the broadcaster that the ex-president had repeatedly insulted as “fake news” and “enemy of the people” in the past.
It is an evening that was awaited with great excitement and a great deal of skepticism. If there was a lot at stake for Trump – and CNN – before Tuesday, the verdict had once again raised the bar significantly.