NEW: Trump told CNN chief Chris Licht backstage before the town hall that he would boost their ratings — to which Licht nodded and said he should “have fun” per ppl familiar. Behind the scenes look https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/12/trump-town-hall-cnn-staff-rages

Trump’s team revels in town hall victory as CNN staff rages at ‘spectacle of lies’

Questions also linger over what the network offered the ex-president in exchange for what some called a Trump infomercial

Narrator: we did not, in fact, “have fun”

It is just astounding that these people enable him. They are going to go down in history in the same names of Goebbels, Stalin, Charles Manson and on and on.