Former President Donald Trump came out swinging against a CNN moderator on Wednesday as she interrupted him and tried to school him on the facts of the 2020 election, the subsequent U.S. Capitol protest on Jan. 6, 2021, and other topics.
In the first major TV event of the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump refused to cave in as moderator Kaitlin Collins tried to get him to admit he lost the 2020 election and to disavow claims that it was stolen or rigged.
Minutes into his hourlong appearance, Trump declared that only “a very stupid person” would fail to see the problems with the 2020 election. He then said he knows that Collins, a former White House correspondent, is “not stupid at all.”…