Former President Donald Trump will not sit down for an interview with “60 Minutes” next week.
The Republican presidential nominee said that CBS News still owes him an apology over a “60 Minutes” interview in 2020 that Trump says was conducted unfairly.
CBS said on Tuesday that Trump backed out of the interview after initially agreeing to it, but Trump campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung shot back at the network, saying, “60 Minutes begged for an interview, even after they were caught lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop back in 2020. There were initial discussions, but nothing was ever scheduled or locked in.”
“They also insisted on doing live fact checking, which is unprecedented,” Cheung added.
Trump addressed the “60 Minutes” interview request during a press conference in Milwaukee on Tuesday and said he “would love to do ’60 Minutes,’” but he’s waiting for an apology.
In October 2020, Trump walked out of an interview with Leslie Stahl after Stahl fact-checked Trump numerous times and denied that Joe Biden was in the middle of a scandal stemming from Hunter Biden’s laptop, which contained information about the Biden family’s alleged foreign business dealings.
“Well, right now, they came to me and would like me to do an interview, but first I want to get an apology, because the last time I did an interview with them, if you remember, they challenged me on the computer,” Trump said. “They said the ‘laptop from hell’ was from Russia, and I said it wasn’t from Russia.”
“If you remember Lesley Stahl, we got into a little bit of an argument on the camera, talking about that and other things. And you know, they really owed me an apology,” Trump added.
Trump doesn’t need to do TV MSM interviews. Just keep doing what he’s doing. He just needs to take a few debate pointers from his veep pick. He doesn’t need to be “nice”. But he does need to be focused and powerful. He’s a great leader. He needs to let that shine through
People want to know the solutions.. they already have their opinions of ” personality”
Vote on the issues and your pocketbook. Obama used “discussions at the kitchen table” a lot
Once back in the White House, I hope he pulls the broadcast license from some of the MSM beginning with ABC, MSNBC & CBS!
There is nothing to be gained for Trump by doing an “interview” with any of the MSM outlets. Oh yeah, I would include Fox News in that too. Their entire purpose for attempting to get an interview is to trigger him into saying something they can either say is not true or being able to claim that they alone were able to undo every positive thing he has accomplished by massaging a comment into a sound bite to make him look bad. Everyone of these so called journalists have plenty of skeletons in their closets. Maybe it’s time to wake them up and give them a dose of their own medicine. Just sayin!
It would be unconstitutional for a President to pull a broadcast license from multiple stations without evidence of some criminal act – falsely reporting the news isn’t sufficient. What he can to if elected is try to prevent multibillionaire Socialist George Soros from buying up 200 stations (he want to buy all of the Audicy stations), many of which are conservative talk stations, through whatever legal and constitutional means are available. Freedom of speech means that everyone gets to say what they think even if it’s false or wrong or “hateful”.