Was Trump truthful or respectful? Of course, not. The dynamic, though, is that the more he says things he shouldn’t, the stronger he seems.
Former president Donald Trump and CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins at a CNN town-hall event in Manchester, N.H., on May 10. “No one else is becoming the nominee unless at the end of the day Donald Trump is no longer the biggest person in the room,” writes Rich Lowry.A viral video that caused outrage a few years ago had Donald Trump body-slamming the cable network CNN personified as a professional wrestler.
Trump steamrolled the moderator Kaitlan Collins, relentlessly stuck to his most outrageous contentions on everything from Jan. 6 to claims the 2020 election was stolen, lit up the audience of supportive Republicans and proved that he is as outlandishly entertaining and compulsively watchable as he was at his height in 2016.
If Trump wins the Republican nomination next year, it will be partly because Republicans are once again drawn to what they consider his distinctive and unmatched sense of personal power. Trump makes up for it with what my National Review colleague Michael Brendan Dougherty calls “willfulness,” a deep-seated, near-primal drive to impose what he wants, whether on a political narrative, a negotiation, a set of rules or, at the CNN town hall, an interviewer.
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