My New York Post column on last night’s New Hampshire town hall with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, on why Trump and CNN deserve each other:

It’s good journalism to host a confrontational interview with a newsmaker. It’s also good journalism to step back and let a candidate interact with people who may vote in his party’s primary. But it’s impossible to do both at once. So we got treated to a schizophrenic evening in which Collins hammered Trump from the left while a handful of voters got to ask him questions more attuned to an audience of Republican primary voters.

Collins wasn’t up to the task. Over and over, she smugly dismissed Trump’s assertions rather than probing them in the way a good lawyer would. If anything, this helped Trump get the crowd on his side. She seemed oblivious to the fact that the audience for this interview didn’t share her assumptions — or worse, she was happy to be used by Trump as a foil.