Five takeaways from Donald Trump’s fractious CNN town hall
Telegraph
23-05-11 12:09
Former US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his claims of election fraud and support for fans who attacked the US Capitol following his defeat in the 2020 election in a CNN town hall on Wednesday. He vowed to pardon “many” of the January 6 rioters prosecuted by the Justice Department and said he would not apologise to his then vice president Mike Pence, whose life was threatened by the mob. Trump joked about the rape allegations raised against him by E. Jean Carroll and mocked the details of the accusation made by Carroll when asked about them by moderator Kaitlan Collins. Trump refused to voice his support for Ukraine and was repeatedly asked by Collins whether he backed Kyiv, but he dodged the question. The former president also refused to answer questions about whether he would support a federal abortion ban, and despite clarifying that he had not shown any of the documents to other people, he reiterated: “I have the right to do whatever I want with them” about classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago residence after he left office.