Donald Trump talks Ukraine war and pardoning US Capitol rioters in CNN town event - BBC News

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Donald Trump has faced questions from voters at a live town hall event, after a New York jury found the former US president sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.

Speaking at the 90-minute event on CNN, Trump repeatedly denied having any contact with the magazine writer who won the who the $5m defamation and sexual abuse civil lawsuit against him.

He also pledged to pardon "many" of those convicted of 6 January offences and repeated lines that if he returned to office, he would negotiate a settlement in Ukraine within 24 hours, but refused to say who he would like to prevail in the war.