Trump Issues Statement After CNN Town Hall Ratings Come In: ‘A Very Smart Thing They Did’

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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday defended the network he once labeled “fake news.”

On Wednesday, CNN aired a town hall in New Hampshire with Trump, the GOP front-runner in the 2024 presidential race, that led to extensive media outrage.

While liberal pundits fumed, however, the network drew more than 3 million people for the event, according to The Hill, far above anything CNN has been attracting lately in the 8 p.m. time slot taken up by the town hall.

Trump said the liberal network had made a wise decision.

“People are criticizing CNN for giving me a Forum to tell the TRUTH,” the former president posted on his Truth Social platform. “I believe it was a very smart thing that they did, with Sky High Ratings that they haven’t seen in a very long time. It was by far the biggest Show of the night, the week, and the month!”

“The Radical Left screamed, ‘Take it down, take it down,’ during the Show, because they saw that I was making so many important points on the Border, Energy Independence, the Afghanistan Catastrophe, Inflation, the Economy, Russia/Ukraine, and so much more. Many minds were changed on Wednesday night by listening to Common Sense, and sheer ‘Brilliance,’” Trump added in a second post.

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