CNN Virus Town Hall Becomes Biden Campaign Event, Skip Sex Assault Claims
By Nicholas Fondacaro | April 17, 2020 12:11 AM EDT
This Thursday’s edition of CNN’s coronavirus town hall turned into a Democratic Party campaign event when co-hosts Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta invited former Vice President Joe Biden onto the show to rip President Trump, and opine about how he would do things differently. And while there were frivolous campaign questions asked, neither of the co-hosts had the integrity to question Biden on the sexual assault claims made against him by former Senate staffer Tara Reade.
The CNN duo asked Biden a total of six questions over a 15-minute segment that allowed him to speak ad nauseam. Following an initial question that involved pleasantries, Cooper’s next question was just a layup to allow Biden to decry the President’s recently released guidelines for reopening state economies. “Looking at the President's new plan for reopening the country in phases, again, it's up to the states. What do you think of what you heard today from the White House?â€
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