Journalist Norah O’Donnell sat down with the forty seventh president for almost 74 minutes Friday to file an interview that ran for 28 minutes throughout primetime. Hoping to supply transparency, CBS posted a full transcript of the interview on-line, the place an prolonged model of the dialogue was additionally made accessible.
Nonetheless there was controversy over edits made by the community, together with the choice to depart out the a part of the interview the president advisable they reduce. That phase handled a lawsuit that Paramount, the father or mother firm of CBS, settled with the president after he complained about the best way “60 Minutes” edited a 2024 interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, who ran in opposition to him in final yr’s presidential election.
Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to Trump’s authorized staff and presidential library to settle the grievance in July.
“Actually ’60 Minutes’ paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you,” Trump advised O’Donnell Sunday.
Trump additionally groused about his predecessor Joe Biden greater than 40 occasions throughout his interview, however viewers solely heard the previous president’s title talked about 10 occasions. There have been additionally moments during which the president rambled and made questionable claims that weren’t aired.
“Bulwark” host and former Republican strategist Tim Miller was one in every of many critics who noticed irony in the best way Trump considered the edits of his interview and his earlier points with CBS.
Donald Trump throughout “60 Minutes” interview. (CBS Information)
Sen. Chuck Schumer contemplated submitting a grievance with the Federal Communications Fee utilizing “the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris.”
“I think there’s a very good reason not to allow people to do that, in order to avoid the arguments of ‘you should have done this’ or ‘you should have done that,’” Bettag stated.
