In the case of the Trump town hall, CNN‘s decision appeared to be entirely self-serving. The Trump town hall was meant to be the “big win” that would turn those things around. Yet CNN‘s own factchecks of its subsequent GOP town halls showed Haley, Pence and Christie were permitted numerous falsehoods without real-time challenge by their journalist hosts. Town halls for GOP onlyIn contrast to its apparent policy of handing out GOP town halls like candy, CNN has announced no plans to give any Democratic candidates town halls. CNN‘s Tapper, despite his full-throated support for the CNN Trump town hall, has declared that he would not host a town hall with Kennedy because of his conspiracy theories.