The anchor's attempts to spin and deflect the widespread criticism the cable news network has faced in the last 24 hours led to further scrutiny on social media.
, Cooper opened the show by directly addressing the overwhelmingly negative reaction to the town hall, acknowledging that many viewers had “expressed deep anger and disappointment” at what transpired. “Many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on the stage in front of a crowd of Republican voters to answer questions and predictably continued to spew lie after lie after lie. And I get it.
Cooper then spent some time listing all the terrible things Trump was allowed to say live on CNN without any pushback, implicitly conceding the network was railroaded by the former president. “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,” he said.
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