![]() Her first job, however, was as an entertainment reporter at The Daily Caller, the Right-leaning news website founded by Tucker Carlson – yes, that Tucker Carlson, the recently fired Fox News host described by CNN as a “Right-wing extremist”.Īfter blogging about Miley Cyrus’s latest tattoos and Shia LaBeouf’s trip to rehab for two years, she was promoted to campaign reporter covering the Trump election in 2016 then White House correspondent a year later. The Alabama-born 31-year-old describes her upbringing as “apolitical”, remembers her mortgage broker father preferring local news programmes over national and told a magazine she doesn't recall her parents ever voting or expressing strong opinions about any candidates. Her career is, in the words of one former CNN communications chief, “incredibly unlikely, which ought to show you she’s not to be trifled with”. Clearly she won't finish the the event without annoying either or both partisan groups.īut the thing about Kaitlan Collins is, nobody can quite pin down her political beliefs – she's known to ask tough questions of everybody. In the latest incredibly complicated move in Trump’s fiendishly tangled relationship with the news network CNN, the former president is taking part in a town hall event on May 10 – an interview hosted by an anchor fielding questions from a studio audience – on the channel he labelled “fake” and whose reporters he routinely chastised.Ĭollins, CNN’s former White House correspondent who was once barred from a Rose Garden event for asking difficult questions about Vladimir Putin and was later labelled an “activist” by press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, will be fielding the questions. And yet Collins – in US TV anchor terms, a true unicorn – managed it. ![]() ![]() The idea of anyone working in the media who covered the entirety of Donald Trump’s presidency and yet somehow managed to avoid alienating both Democrats and Republicans is clearly preposterous. So Kaitlan Collins ought to be feeling a tad jumpy right now.Ĭollins’s chances are, however, surprisingly hard to call. In terms of career stakes, there’s none higher in journalism this week. Anyone facing former President Trump live on air the night after he’s been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation but long before he’s prepared to accept the fact is either going to become a legend or crash and burn.
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