CNN Dumps Trump Presser — Kaitlan Collins Corrects Pro-Trump Reporter Pushing Election Lie

CNN dumped out of a Trump press gaggle, and anchor Kaitlan Collins went out of her way to correct a pro-Trump journo who pushed election lies while questioning former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire.

Trump made a scheduled stop in Londonderry, New Hampshire Tuesday as he campaigned during the state’s high-stakes primary election, and stopped to gaggle with reporters.

One of them was an obviously pro-Trump questioner who asked leading questions promoting false claims about the 2020 election.

During CNN’s coverage of the New Hampshire primary, CNN’s Anderson Cooper finally cut in and dumped out of the gaggle as Trump ranted about immigrants, and Collins made a point of correcting the misinformation:

PRO-TRUMP REPORTER: President Trump. What should the American people think of the injustice that you’re experiencing? And the big concern, that the election, they try to steal it again in 2024, how can people help respond that?

TRUMP: People are going to be watching very closely. I very much appreciate that question because it’s a very important question, more important than most people would understand.

We have to make sure we have honest, fair and free elections and strong borders. If we don’t have borders and elections, we don’t have a country. And you see what’s going on with the border. There’s never been anything like it on the border.

Millions and millions of people are pouring into our country illegally. And many come from prisons. They come from jails. They’re terrorists. Nobody’s ever seen it. They come from. By the way, I saw a report this morning.

They’re coming in from mental institutions all over the world. They’re pouring in, and it makes sense. Why would somebody running a country where it costs so much money? Why would they keep the people there dumping them into our country, mental institutions, jails and prisons? They’re coming into our country, and a lot of terrorists are coming in. This is really bad. I heard somebody yesterday–

ANDERSON COOPER: And that’s, former President Trump, at a stop in Londonderry, in New Hampshire, out campaigning today as, voters are going to the polls. I want to bring in Kaitlan Collins in Washington.

KAITLAN COLLINS: Yeah. Anderson, just to note, I do believe that was a planned stop. That’s why you saw so many supporters there. And obviously, you saw reporters anticipating the former president’s arrival as he’s making stops in New Hampshire today, something you don’t really often seeing him do.

But just to note, I mean, he was talking there about Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, but but he did get asked a question by a — it’s not clear who — someone who was maintaining that the election was stolen, asking if he was concerned it was going to be stolen again.

Obviously, it was not stolen. It was a free and fair election in 2020. But that is a message that that Trump has been continuing to push.

And New Hampshire is actually one of the earliest states where he ever claimed there was election fraud back in 2016.

Watch above via CNN’s coverage of the New Hampshire primary