CNN cut short the network\u2019s town hall with President Trump Wednesday night by twenty minutes after Trump, backed by a wildly supportive audience (hand picked by CNN<\/a>), took control of the forum from anchor Kaitlan Collins right from the start and never let up. The live event at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire was scheduled to run from 8 p.m. EDT until 9:30 p.m., however right before 9:10 p.m. Collins abruptly ended the town hall.<\/p>\n An intro to a live thread<\/a> by the Telegraph documented the scheduled length of the town hall:<\/p>\n Good evening. Follow our updates as Donald Trump participates in a \u2018town hall\u2019 during which he will face questions from a live audience. The 90-minute event comes one day after a civil jury found the former US President liable for the sexual abuse of writer E Jean Carroll. Mr Trump reacted to that finding by posting on his Truth Social app that the case was a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d and that he had \u201cabsolutely no idea who this woman is\u201d. Expect further defensive comments when Mr Trump takes the stage in New Hampshire tonight. The event will be moderated by former chief White House correspondent and CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Puck\u2019s Dylan Byers reported on CNN cutting the town hall short, \u201cNote: The CNN Town Hall was a 90 minute broadcast, though the network expected the actual event to go as long as 75 minutes. They stopped less than 70 minutes in. In other words, they could have gone longer if they wanted\u2014which is usually what executives do with big ratings draws\u201d<\/p>\n Exchanges like these were why CNN threw in the towel.<\/p>\n Breitbart\u2019s Joel Pollak observed the audience was laughing at Collins, \u201cThe @CNN audience is laughing at Kaitlin Collins because she keeps trying to squeeze Trump\u2019s answers into her preconceived categories. It\u2019s stupid and, yes, it is funny to laugh at her doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n Clip where audience laughs at Collins:<\/p>\n Earlier Wednesday, Dylan Byers reported CNN was set to promote Collins to host of her own prime time show.<\/p>\n Collins was so confident and loaded for bear at the outset.<\/p>\n Last word to Steve Bannon, \u201cFirst Time Ever \u2018Mercy Rule\u2019 Invoked\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n via The Gateway Pundit<\/p>\n May 11, 2023 at 07:08AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Mercy Rule”: CNN Abruptly Cut Trump Town Hall Short by Twenty Minutes | The Gateway Pundit | by Kristinn Taylor CNN cut short the network\u2019s town hall with President Trump Wednesday night by twenty minutes after Trump, backed by a wildly supportive audience (hand picked by CNN), took control of the forum from anchor Kaitlan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[278,258,8],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-7954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-am-headline","category-fake-news","category-featured-stories","tag-sbn"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?fit=2326%2C1252&ssl=1",2326,1252,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?fit=300%2C161&ssl=1",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?fit=768%2C413&ssl=1",768,413,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?fit=1024%2C551&ssl=1",1024,551,true],"rpg_gallery_admin_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"rpg_gallery_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?fit=1536%2C827&ssl=1",1536,827,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?fit=2048%2C1102&ssl=1",2048,1102,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Peter Santilli"]},"category_info":"AM Headline<\/a> Fake News<\/a> Featured Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Featured Stories","comment_count":"0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plD2r-24i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-11-at-6.45.15-AM.png?fit=2326%2C1252&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trump-CNN-Town-Hall-Screen-Image-05102023-600x339.jpg?resize=600%2C339&ssl=1\")
\nPresident Trump smiles as he walks on stage at start of CNN town hall, screen image.<\/em><\/p>\n