In Wednesday’s Townhall event in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump confidently dealt with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, disregarding her biased and outdated questions. He effectively marginalized her role as the moderator by addressing the audience directly, discussing the “gotcha” topics that Collins continuously posed throughout the evening, visibly irritating her.

Trump had hyped up the highly anticipated townhall event, and it turned out to be favorable for the former president, despite Collins’s attempt to start with controversial subjects and narratives associated with the left, such as the 2020 election results, January 6 events, and accusations in the E. Jean Carroll case. Notably, Trump received a standing ovation when he was introduced.

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Collins began the townhall by focusing on the previous election and claims of election fraud. Trump made it clear, contrary to Collins’s insinuations, that he values the Constitution and stressed the significance of upholding it.

“I mean, we have elections. We have open borders, look at what’s happening on our southern border,” Trump said, pivoting to more pressing subjects, such as illegal immigration, as Collins, at this point in the townhall, continued to press him on the 2020 presidential election.

“They’re being released from prisons. They’re being released from mental institutions, and we have millions of people pouring into our country, and now they’re getting rid of Title 42, which I put on,” he said as a visibly irritated Collins contended there would be questions on that topic later.

From there, Collins brought up another favorite leftist topic: January 6.

“Do you have any regrets about your actions on January 6?” she asked, as Trump walked through exactly how that day went, beginning with a peaceful rally.

“I said, walk peacefully and patriotically, you know, many different things. In fact, I brought a list of things — I don’t want to bore the audience, but we can go sentence after sentence after sentence of things,” he said, noting that Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — whom Trump referred to “Crazy Nancy” — refused his offer for additional security.

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“I offered them National Guard, I said. We’ll give you soldiers. We’ll give you a National Guard. We’ll give you whatever you want. And they turned me down. Yeah. And in fact … she turned me down in writing. They turned me down,” he said, as Collins continued to argue with him. This caused Trump to present evidence, where he physically retrieved paper documents and recited precisely what he had written on that particular day and at what specific time. The audience enthusiastically appreciated and expressed their support for this action.

“On January 5, the day before, I said please support our Capitol police and law enforcement. They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful. Stay peaceful. This was the day before and this was in the form of Twitter — now use Truth. Truth Social– I think it’s far superior,” Trump said, dominating the conversation with his paper as Collins looked on and speaking directly to the audience. Trump also turned the narrative around, calling out the officer who shot Ashli Babbitt that day.

“A person named Ashli Babbitt was killed. She shouldn’t have been killed, and that thug who killed her – there was no reason to shoot her,” he said. “She was a good person. She was a patriot.”

When questioned about the possibility of Trump granting pardons to the January 6 rioters, including Proud Boys members, Trump took the opportunity to criticize the fairness of trials in Washington DC and New York City, drawing on his own recent experiences. Moving on, Collins brought up the E. Jean Carroll case and the conclusions reached by the jury in Manhattan, to which Trump once again denied the allegations of sexual abuse.

“This woman I don’t know her. I never met her. I have no idea who she is. I had a picture taken years ago with her and her husband … who was a newscaster — very nice man,” he said, adding in extra tidbits — including the fact that Carroll’s cat is named “Vagina,” in his answer. Trump then spoofed the accusations, cracking up many members of the audience — likely to Collins’s dismay.

“And this is when I met her and I was immediately attracted to her and she was immediately attracted” to me, Trump said. “And we had this crowded department store. We had this great chemistry.”

Trump continued the story, demonstrating the absurdity of the claims in his usual entertaining way:

Collins persisted in her pattern of posing potentially outdated and suggestive inquiries, questioning Trump about his remorse regarding the comments he expressed in the Access Hollywood recording. In a straightforward manner, Trump affirmed that the truth remains unchanged, emphasizing that prominent individuals possess inherent benefits.

“But if you’re a famous person, if you’re a star, and I’m not referring to myself, I’m saying people that are famous people that are powerful,” he said as Collins attempted to interrupt, to no avail.

“They tend to do pretty well in a lot of different ways. .. It’s been true for one million years, approximately one million years, perhaps a little bit less,” Trump said.

Trump’s dominance throughout the night was, perhaps, fully encapsulated at the end of the event after Collins attempted to lecture Trump about the Presidential Records Act.

“I have every right, to under the Presidential Records Act,” he said of the documents he possessed, pointing out that several other past leaders have taken documents — including the fact that President Biden has boxes of them.

“The vice president cannot declassify. He didn’t have the right to declassify. He has documents from when he was a senator,” Trump said.

“That’s the question that investigators have, I think is why you held on to those documents when you knew the federal government was seeking them and then had given you a subpoena to return,” Collins continued, routinely attempting to interrupt and correct Trump, which prompted him to ask Collins if he could answer the question.

“Can I talk?” he said.

“Yeah, what’s the answer,” Collins replied.

“Do you mind?” Trump asked.

“I would like for you to answer,” she said, interrupting Trump again by sarcastically adding, “That’s why I asked it.”

“It’s very simple– you are nasty person, ok?” Trump said after the CNN moderator’s quip, prompting cheers and laughter from the CNN audience.