the rump unleashed a firehose of lies during its live town hall

It’s hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.Kaitlan Collins is as tough and knowledg-able of an interviewer as they come. She fact-checked the rump throughout the 70-minute town hall.

Over and over and over again, she told him that the election was not stolen. That it was not rigged. That there was no evidence for the lies he was disseminating on stage.“The election was not rigged, Mr. President,” Collins told the rump at one point during the event. “You cannot keep saying that all night long.”Yet, he did. the rump frequently ignored or spoke over Collins throughout the evening as he unleashed a firehose of disinformation upon the country, which a sizable swath of the GOP continues to believe.

A professional lie machine,  the rump fired off falsehoods at a rapid clip while using his bluster to overwhelm Collins, stealing command of the stage at some points of the town hall.The rump lied about the 2020 election. He took no responsibility for the January 6 insurrection that those very lies incited.

And he mocked E. Jean Carroll’s allegations of sexual assault, which a jury found him liable for on Tuesday.