Trump’s War With CBS News Takes a Dark Turn
Donald Trump has sent a legal demand to CBS demanding the full unedited transcript from the network’s 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. On Truth Social Monday night, Trump posted pictures from a letter his attorneys sent to CBS claiming that the network “and its 60 Minutes producers intentionally misled the public,” and that CBS’s “manipulative editing was aimed at causing confusion among the electorate regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s abilities, intelligence, and appeal.”If CBS does not release the transcript, Trump is threatening legal action against the network, asking that it keeps all of its communications and documents relating to Harris’s interview in case of future potential litigation. Needless to say, Trump is driving himself nuts over the whole thing, just because he thinks the network edited Harris’s interview to make her look better. In reality, CBS News has already responded to Trump, noting that any claims of a doctored interview are completely “false.” Still, Trump’s campaign won’t give up its outlandish war. He has bizarrely demanded that Harris drop out of the race, and his campaign has been calling for the release of the interview transcript for nearly two weeks. The former president has even called for CBS’s broadcast license to be revoked, drawing a rebuke from the Federal Communications Commission. Trump had his own opportunity to sit for an interview with 60 Minutes, but he backed out at the last minute, making tons of excuses. First, his campaign complained about the interview being fact-checked, and then it demanded an apology for Trump’s 2020 interview, in which he stormed off set. Ultimately, the network aired all of these shifting explanations, which probably contributed to making Trump upset. If Trump really thinks that CBS’s interview had the effect of making Harris look better, he has the option of sitting down for his own interview with 60 Minutes. But lately, the former president has canceled several interviews for outlets that won’t go out of their way to flatter him, perhaps because he knows that he’ll hurt his image just weeks before the election.
Donald Trump has sent a legal demand to CBS demanding the full unedited transcript from the network’s 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
On Truth Social Monday night, Trump posted pictures from a letter his attorneys sent to CBS claiming that the network “and its 60 Minutes producers intentionally misled the public,” and that CBS’s “manipulative editing was aimed at causing confusion among the electorate regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s abilities, intelligence, and appeal.”
If CBS does not release the transcript, Trump is threatening legal action against the network, asking that it keeps all of its communications and documents relating to Harris’s interview in case of future potential litigation. Needless to say, Trump is driving himself nuts over the whole thing, just because he thinks the network edited Harris’s interview to make her look better.
In reality, CBS News has already responded to Trump, noting that any claims of a doctored interview are completely “false.” Still, Trump’s campaign won’t give up its outlandish war. He has bizarrely demanded that Harris drop out of the race, and his campaign has been calling for the release of the interview transcript for nearly two weeks. The former president has even called for CBS’s broadcast license to be revoked, drawing a rebuke from the Federal Communications Commission.
Trump had his own opportunity to sit for an interview with 60 Minutes, but he backed out at the last minute, making tons of excuses. First, his campaign complained about the interview being fact-checked, and then it demanded an apology for Trump’s 2020 interview, in which he stormed off set. Ultimately, the network aired all of these shifting explanations, which probably contributed to making Trump upset.
If Trump really thinks that CBS’s interview had the effect of making Harris look better, he has the option of sitting down for his own interview with 60 Minutes. But lately, the former president has canceled several interviews for outlets that won’t go out of their way to flatter him, perhaps because he knows that he’ll hurt his image just weeks before the election.
