trump pointed to a clip of cnn's pamela brown, who is heard whispering to a participant before asking the woman her thoughts on the debate. | getty by brent griffiths 10/10/16 04:26 pm edt despite his constant pronouncements that he does not watch cnn, donald trump tweeted about the network again on monday. this time, he characterized the cable news channel as <u+201c>the worst<u+201d> and accused it of rigging a focus group that took place after the second presidential debate. <u+201c>wow, @cnn got caught fixing their <u+2018>focus group<u+2019> in order to make crooked hillary look better,<u+201d> trump tweeted. <u+201c>really pathetic and totally dishonest!<u+201d> story continued below in a retweet from his social media director, trump pointed to a clip of cnn<u+2019>s pamela brown, who is heard whispering to a participant before asking the woman her thoughts on the debate. . @wolfblitzer @danabashcnn @johnkingcnn <u+2714><u+fe0f>in on their focus group-where the participants are told what to say-prior to going on air. #debate pic.twitter.com/raow4krirm <u+2014> dan scavino jr. (@danscavino) october 10, 2016 but brown was not coaching the participants, cnn and the participants themselves say. the focus group participants did not have earpieces or access to a screen in order to know what clip brown would be referring to, so she was relaying the quotes to them in person. <u+201c>the focus group was not able to hear or see the post-debate segment,<u+201d> a cnn spokeswoman said in a statement. <u+201c>brown described the segment in real time so they would know what was being discussed. it<u+2019>s absurd to think she was coaching the focus group in anyway.<u+201d> hadas gold contributed to this report. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
cnn pushes back on trump<u+2019>s claim it <u+2018>rigged<u+2019> focus group - politico
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