'Appropriate warm-up': Yep, Kirsten Gillibrand's video TOTALLY predicted how her CNN town hall would go

Senator and Democrat presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand’s town hall on CNN wasn’t exactly a huge challenge to her candidacy:

These questions are just riveting #CNNTownHall pic.twitter.com/kr2tpJLzqz

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 10, 2019

Oh, how challenging:

Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand says the NRA opposes background checks because it wants to sell guns to people “on the terror watch list,” “gravely mentally ill with a violent background,” or “criminal[s] convict[ed] for a violent crime”

None of this is true

CNN offered no pushback pic.twitter.com/Q1Cnb6VvvF

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 10, 2019

No pushback from CNN on a Dem’s claim about guns and the NRA? Say it ain’t so!

CNN claims to know the difference between an apple and a banana-

But they can’t identify when someone is totally nuts https://t.co/4sZAzkEO6B

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) April 10, 2019

But none of that should have been a surprise based on a clue in Gillibrand’s tweeted promotion of the CNN town hall earlier in the day:

Getting ready for tonight’s CNN town hall! pic.twitter.com/ighOcg2w2s

— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) April 9, 2019

Well look at that…

No better way to get ready for softball questions than playing actual softball. https://t.co/3ZHvIMOFcp

— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) April 9, 2019

She totally telegraphed it:

… hitting softballs? https://t.co/2Hul1fDW28

— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) April 9, 2019

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So, you acknowledge you get softball questions… https://t.co/1gQroxrXJT

— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 9, 2019

Go figure!

By hitting softballs!????

She's either trolling #CNN herself or has no awareness of how they're viewed by so many. #Gillibrand2020 https://t.co/9tb1pNkx9D

— Joseph Backholm (@josephbackholm) April 9, 2019

Gillibrand is predicting she'll get lots of softball questions tonight on CNN. https://t.co/VY50GgmRhQ

— David Martosko (@dmartosko) April 9, 2019

Getting ready for softballs, Kirsten?

Seemingly an appropriate warm-up: https://t.co/1FDSTHtuMG

— … (@callmeMallas) April 9, 2019

Those softballs don’t hit themselves… https://t.co/ESxxxDl2Qn

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) April 9, 2019

We can’t say Gillibrand didn’t call that one!