{"id":259085,"date":"2025-11-03T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259085\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:01:10","slug":"cbs-news-heavily-edits-trump-60-minutes-interview-cutting-boast-network-paid-me-a-lotta-money-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/259085\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network \u2018paid me a lotta money\u2019 | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CBS<\/a> News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump<\/a> 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<\/a> was later published, along with a 73-minute-long extended version online<\/a>.<\/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<\/a> 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<\/a>, 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<\/a>, 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":"The CBS News program 60 Minutes heavily edited down an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-259085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}