Mehdi Hasan: Live TV with Donald Trump in Front of Superfans Is Setting up Kaitlan Collins to Fail

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HASAN: “I mean, people are saying today, 'Kaitlan Collins, poor Kaitlan Collins, she tried her best.' And with great respect to Kaitlan Collins, I’m a great admirer of Kaitlan Collins’ interviews previously, she did very well when she was in the White House briefing room holding Trump to account, she did a very good interview recently with Rick Scott, but last night it just wasn’t good enough. If you’re going up with Trump at 8:00, prime time television, the biggest interview of your life, where was the prep? Why go in, as you say, with that question? 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 is going to steamroll you, that Trump is 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, there was no way he wasn’t going to mock E. Jean Carroll, there was no way he wasn’t going to say 'rigged election' again and again. 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. And CNN helped him! You have no plan for it.”