{"id":11531,"date":"2023-05-13T04:16:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T09:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11531"},"modified":"2023-05-13T04:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T09:16:18","slug":"trump-news-live-trump-defends-cnn-ratings-as-e-jean-carroll-threatens-to-sue-him-again-over-vile-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11531","title":{"rendered":"Trump news \u2013 live: Trump defends CNN ratings as E Jean Carroll threatens to sue him again over \u2018vile\u2019 remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ex-president defends chaotic town hall, says network did \u2018right thing\u2019 by giving him platform<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;has defended&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cnn\">CNN<\/a>&nbsp;over his chaotic town hall appearance on Wednesday evening, saying the network did \u201cthe right thing\u201d by giving him a mainstream media platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former president has also begun his appeal against the verdict in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/e-jean-carroll\">E Jean Carroll<\/a>&nbsp;case after he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Carroll, 79, has meanwhile said she may sue Mr Trump for a third time over his \u201cvile\u201d comments during Wednesday\u2019s broadcast, telling&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;that his comments were \u201cjust stupid, it\u2019s just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, told the newspaper: \u201cEverything\u2019s on the table, obviously, and we have to give serious consideration to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CNN CEO Chris Licht praised moderator&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/kaitlan-collins\">Kaitlan Collins<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday for her \u201cmasterful performance last night\u201d during an editorial call with network staff, batting away criticism of her failure to bring Mr Trump to heel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmerica was served very well by what we did last night,\u201d Licht said, according to media reporter Brian Stelter, who suggested that many of the company\u2019s own employees might not agree with his assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-town-hall-cnn-ratings-e-jean-carroll-verdict-b2337488.html\">independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-president defends chaotic town hall, says network did \u2018right thing\u2019 by giving him platform Donald Trump&nbsp;has defended&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;over his chaotic town hall appearance on Wednesday evening, saying the network did \u201cthe right thing\u201d by giving him a mainstream media platform. The former president has also begun his appeal against the verdict in the&nbsp;E Jean Carroll&nbsp;case after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6686],"class_list":["post-11531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-trumpdefendsvilesue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11533,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions\/11533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}