Trump, 60 Minutes and CBS
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You don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you,” Trump joked after reminding O’Donnell that “actually ‘60 Minutes’ paid me a lotta money.” Coincidentally — or not — “60 Minutes” did not air that portion of Trump’s interview.
The president appeared on the newsmagazine Sunday night, one year after suing the CBS show over the editing of a Kamala Harris interview — and he was well aware that his answers would similarly be trimmed for time.
President Trump’s frustrated response to a crypto corruption question shoehorned at the end of his 60 Minutes interview was cut from the show’s final edit. CBS aired a 28 minute version of the Trump interview on TV,
President Trump defended his administration’s ICE raids and argued “they haven’t gone far enough” in a “60 Minutes” interview that airs Sunday night — his first sit-down with CBS News since suing the network’s parent company.
President Donald Trump got snippy as he was pressed about a suspicious pardon for a cryptocurrency billionaire linked to his own family at the end of his latest "60 Minutes" interview — but that question got slashedout of the broadcast,