Criticism for CNN continues to pour in after what has been labeled a “disastrous” town hall event with former President Donald Trump happened Wednesday night. MSNBC host Joy Reid is the latest to air her grievances with the network and also criticized moderator Kaitlan Collins in the process.
“CNN wants desperately to be the new home for Republican viewers. They want to be the new Fox. They want to move to the right. It’s clear that the goal is to make it a friendly place for MAGA. That’s very clear,” Reid said during Thursday’s The ReidOut.
She then turned her attention toward Collins, arguing that her time working for The Daily Caller — a digital outlet co-founded by conservative firebrand Tucker Carlson — shows a political bias.
“Let’s remember she comes from the Daily Caller. She comes from a conservative outlet that Tucker Carlson used to own, so she’s not a liberal,” Reid continued.
Reid’s comments about Collins came after strong criticism from colleague Mehdi Hasan. Hasan argued that Collins simply “wasn’t good enough” in her role.
“If you’re going up with Trump, prime time television, the biggest interview of your life… Where was the prep?” questioned Hasan. “Why were you not prepared for his lies? We knew what Trump would do. This is not 2016. We haven’t gone back in time in a time machine. There’s no excuse for not knowing that Trump’s going to steamroll you, that Trump’s going to verbally abuse you. When he said, ‘You’re a nasty person’, it was almost like, tick. I was waiting for that. There was no way he was going to go through the night without insulting her.
“At one point she says to him, ‘It wasn’t a rigged election. You can’t keep saying that all night long.’ Yes, he can! And he did!” an increasingly frustrated Hasan said. “And CNN helped him, and you had no plan for it.”
