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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Thursday offered up a defense of his employer’s decision to host former President Donald Trump for a town hall event, telling viewers that it was designed to prevent them from “only listening to people you agree with.”
Cooper, like CNN CEO Chris Licht did with staffers earlier in the day, addressed criticisms of the primetime, hour-plus broadcast.
“Many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on a stage in front of a crowd of Republican voters to answer questions and predictably continued to spew lie after lie after lie,” Cooper said. “And I get it. It was disturbing.”