White House releases raw footage of Trump's '60 Minutes' interview

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White House releases raw footage of Trump's '60 Minutes' interview

 

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the final 2020 U.S. presidential campaign debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

(Reuters) - The White House on Thursday released raw footage from an interview that U.S. President Donald Trump did with "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl, breaking an agreement to keep material from the highly-anticipated clash private until an edited version could air this weekend.

 

The footage shows Stahl, a veteran journalist who has interviewed Trump twice before, asking direct questions and refuting some of Trump's answers on topics including healthcare and the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

"Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS," Trump said in post on his Twitter profile on Thursday morning, with a link to his Facebook page, where he posted the nearly 38 minute interview.

 

The Facebook post quickly gained attention, garnering more than 26,000 comments in less than two hours.

 

The White House had kept a single-frame copy of the interview, in which only Trump is visible but Stahl can be heard asking questions. It shows Trump repeatedly asking Stahl and her employer, CBS News, to ask tough questions of Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

 

The White House on Thursday released raw footage from an interview that U.S. President Donald Trump did with "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl, breaking an agreement to keep material from the highly-anticipated clash private until an edited version could air this weekend. This report produced by Chris Dignam.

 

CBS News, a division of ViacomCBS Inc <VIACA.O> and the network that airs "60 Minutes," blasted Trump's "unprecedented decision" to disregard an agreement to keep the footage private, but said the move would not defer the show "from providing its full, fair and contextual reporting which presidents have participated in for decades."

 

The interview, which took place on Tuesday, will air on Sunday on "60 Minutes," alongside interviews with Biden, his running mate Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence.

 

Trump said on the tape that the country has "turned a corner" in its battle with the pandemic and that he believes masks are an effective tool to prevent transmission.

 

The president also said he hopes the Supreme Court will "end" Obamacare and that he would then replace it with a less-expensive plan "that will take care of people with pre-existing conditions."

 

(Reporting by Ernest Scheyder, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-10-23

 

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[Tie Dye Samurai]

if you cant take the heat, get out of the kitchen...and there goes Chef Trump out the door...

[Chomper Higgot]

The claim that this is raw footage needs verification.

 

There is only one reason why Trump would release this footage, to get ahead of the footage that will be broadcast on Sunday.

 

So let’s see who’s edited what.

[joecoolfrog]

A bully , a baby and an embarrassment to all fair minded people. How on earth can anybody still support this clown ?

[Blue Muton]

8 minutes ago, joecoolfrog said:

A bully , a baby and an embarrassment to all fair minded people. How on earth can anybody still support this clown ?

Same as most cults, they're brainwashed to think he can do or say no wrong.

[Justgrazing]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness

Hahahaha .. he does hypocrisy particularly well if nothing else .. 

[tifino]

The Don : "CBS you're fired"

[opalred]

you cannot handle the heat /you get out of the kitchen 

[spidermike007]

A lame attempt to deflect even more heat generated by an interviewer, who was not tossing softballs at the emporer. He just continues violating established norms of decency, and will lost huuuugely. He loses more support by the day. 

 

There is an important thing to understand about the dynamics at play here. Every time the polls drop, those are HIS SUPPORTERS, who are defecting. That is all he has now. So many of his former supporters are put off by how unhinged, unstable, and disjointed he is. 

[BritManToo]

12 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

He just continues violating established norms of decency, and will lost huuuugely.

How I'll laugh if he wins ........ along with never letting you forget!

[Boon Mee]

Good move, Trump! Instead of some doctored left wing biased version intended to cast him in a negative manner, he preempted them! ???? 

[heybruce]

11 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Good move, Trump! Instead of some doctored left wing biased version intended to cast him in a negative manner, he preempted them! ???? 

The man who lives by the non-disclosure agreement broke "an agreement to keep material from the highly-anticipated clash private until an edited version could air this weekend."

 

Clearly Trump believes that rules, contracts and laws only apply to other people, not him.

[dunroaming]

Well at least Trump still has Boon Mee to cheer for him.   

[Bluespunk]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The White House on Thursday released raw footage from an interview that U.S. President Donald Trump did with "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl, breaking an agreement to keep material from the highly-anticipated clash private until an edited version could air this weekend.

Never trust a trump promise. 

[welovesundaysatspace]

52 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

Good move, Trump! Instead of some doctored left wing biased version intended to cast him in a negative manner, he preempted them! ???? 

Now he cast himself in a negative manner, and cannot even falsely claim it’s just some doctored left wing biased version. (Not that anyone other than his QAnon friends would have believed that crapload anyways.) 

 

What an idiot. 

[evadgib]

Trump is going to win by a landslide no matter what they throw at him ????

[Jingthing]

5 minutes ago, evadgib said:

Trump is going to win by a landslide no matter what they throw at him ????

That's impossible. 

[Boon Mee]

5 minutes ago, evadgib said:

Trump is going to win by a landslide no matter what they throw at him ????

No truer words...

[Paul Henry]

Don't cry Donald you have taken your bat and ball and gone home, Fox and your friend there will fix it for you and say the other team didn't play by your rules. Don't cry every thing will look good when Fox show the  sixty minute video, and your tame clowns sorry supporter will still adore you.

[EVENKEEL]

It isn't over till the fat lady sings......

[Tug]

I always find it funney when donald plays the victim after all he only got 400 million from dad bo ho he started the term with both the house and senate in republican majority’s squandered that blew the response to covid costing more lives than we lost fighting the Japanese during ww2 + lives lost in the air war over Europe + 10s of thousands more and gets all hurt when questioned no sir he has a record now it’s not good on many levels time for change enough damage let’s stop the bleeding 

[Eric Loh]

2 hours ago, evadgib said:

Trump is going to win by a landslide no matter what they throw at him ????

No one throw at him. He self destruct. 4 years of nothing but moaning and whining. 

[evadgib]

46 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

No one throw at him. He self destruct. 4 years of nothing but moaning and whining. 

You should embargo that post until 4th November, as should the serial emoji stalkers.

[Meat Pie 47]

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

A lame attempt to deflect even more heat generated by an interviewer, who was not tossing softballs at the emporer. He just continues violating established norms of decency, and will lost huuuugely. He loses more support by the day. 

 

There is an important thing to understand about the dynamics at play here. Every time the polls drop, those are HIS SUPPORTERS, who are defecting. That is all he has now. So many of his former supporters are put off by how unhinged, unstable, and disjointed he is. 

Yes and a handful of supporters on this forum as well

[Meat Pie 47]

1 hour ago, Paul Henry said:

Don't cry Donald you have taken your bat and ball and gone home, Fox and your friend there will fix it for you and say the other team didn't play by your rules. Don't cry every thing will look good when Fox show the  sixty minute video, and your tame clowns sorry supporter will still adore you.

And they still will adore him when he is in jail crying

[stevenl]

16 minutes ago, evadgib said:

You should embargo that post until 4th November, as should the serial emoji stalkers.

The same should be said of your own post. For the moment all those predictions 'he'll win with a landslide's are nothing more than wishfull thinking.

[evadgib]

42 minutes ago, stevenl said:

The same should be said of your own post. For the moment all those predictions 'he'll win with a landslide's are nothing more than wishfull thinking.

My post was clearly aimed at a future event whereas the one I replied to implied that Trump's term would expire after 4 years...

 

A year ago we Brits saw our election plagued on this website by Ponti's (Posters Of No Tactical Importance, ie they're neither citizens nor on the electoral register of the country they routinely slag off). I am a Ponti in this particular instance which is why I rarely stick a toe into the Trump threads but chose to pipe-up on this occasion as it was becoming a little one sided.

 

I am optimistic that the Ponti's plaguing this thread are as wrong as ours were last year ????

[JulesMad]

7 hours ago, BritManToo said:

How I'll laugh if he wins ........ along with never letting you forget!

IF, and is IF, he really wins, then the american people definitely are the most dumbest people on the planet 2 elections in a row. I just can NOT imagine that possibility... But knowing the 'democracy' in america it might be that the most hypocrite liar wins again ????

[joecoolfrog]

7 hours ago, dunroaming said:

Well at least Trump still has Boon Mee to cheer for him.   

That must be huge encouragement !!

[joecoolfrog]

6 hours ago, evadgib said:

Trump is going to win by a landslide no matter what they throw at him ????

Blind faith is a wonderful thing. Can't understand why Covid didn't vanish a few months ago though or why the Mexican cheque is not yet in the post...strange !