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The CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday night, his first sit-down with the show in five years.<\/p>\n
Trump sat down with correspondent Norah O\u2019Donnell for 90 minutes, but only about 28 minutes were broadcast. A full transcript of the interview was later published, along with a 73-minute-long extended version online.<\/p>\n
The edits are notable because, exactly one year before Trump was interviewed by O\u2019Donnell at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday he had sued CBS over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which he alleged had been deceptively edited to help her chances in the presidential election.<\/p>\n
While many legal experts widely dismissed the lawsuit as \u201cmeritless\u201d and unlikely to hold up under the first amendment, CBS settled with Trump for $16m in July. As part of the settlement, the network had agreed that it would release transcripts of future interviews of presidential candidates.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of Sunday\u2019s show, O\u2019Donnell reminded viewers that Paramount settled Trump\u2019s lawsuit, but noted that \u201cthe settlement did not include an apology or admission of wrongdoing\u201d.<\/p>\n
During the interview, in a clip that did not air on the broadcast, Trump needled CBS over the settlement and repeated his claims against the network.<\/p>\n
\u201cActually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don\u2019t have to put this on, because I don\u2019t wanna embarrass you, and I\u2019m sure you\u2019re not,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut 60 Minutes was forced to pay me a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can\u2019t have fake news. You\u2019ve gotta have legit news. And I think that it\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
During another un-aired portion of the interview, Trump praised the sale of CBS to the Ellison family and said the network\u2019s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, was a \u201cgreat new leader\u201d.<\/p>\n
The US president said he didn\u2019t know Weiss, but told O\u2019Donnell: \u201cI hear she\u2019s a great person.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you have a great new leader, frankly, who\u2019s the young woman that\u2019s leading your whole enterprise, is a great \u2013 from what I know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Trump was particularly effusive in praising David Ellison and his father, Larry, the new owner of CBS News\u2019 parent company, Paramount, through their company Skydance Media.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think one of the best things to happen is this show and new ownership, CBS and new ownership,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI think it\u2019s the greatest thing that\u2019s happened in a long time to a free and open and good press.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Donnell did not directly respond to the president\u2019s comments about Weiss and the Ellisons.<\/p>\n
Among Trump\u2019s many answers that were edited out were several comments questioning the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, which he said \u201cwas rigged and stolen\u201d.<\/p>\n
At one point in the interview, in a segment that was not aired on the broadcast, Trump tried to get O\u2019Donnell to acknowledge that crime was down in Washington DC, where she lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou live here. You know that too,\u201d Trump said, asking O\u2019Donnell: \u201cDo you see a difference?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve been working too hard,\u201d O\u2019Donnell responded. \u201cI haven\u2019t been out and about that much \u2026 I get in my car and go to work and I go home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump said \u201cthat\u2019s not a fair answer\u201d and insisted that O\u2019Donnell noticed a difference.<\/p>\n
The president then seemed to suggest that the back-and-forth didn\u2019t need to be aired on the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to use that one,\u201d he said. \u201cDon\u2019t worry, don\u2019t worry, I don\u2019t want to embarrass her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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