Sunday, August 9, 2026

Opinion | What Trump should have been asked at his CNN town hall

Opinion | What Trump should have been asked at his CNN town hall

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We learned a few things from CNN’s “town hall” with Donald Trump on Wednesday night: Even though he abandoned his policy of separating families at the border, he still defends it as a deterrent to illegal immigration and won’t rule out bringing it back if reelected. He is capable of getting a crowd to laugh along with him at the woman a jury just determined that he had sexually abused. And there is no effective way of fact-checking him in real time.

But we could have learned more. Here are a few questions I wish Trump had been asked:

Getting into the weeds of factual disputes with Trump, even when he is provably wrong, is not a fruitful way to question him: He’ll just barrel ahead with his version of reality. It’s time to ask him some new questions.

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