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Comments about his lawsuit against the show, claims the 2020 election was \u201crigged and stolen\u201d and attempts to talk journalist Norah O\u2019Donnell into agreeing crime has gone down in Washington D.C. since his election were all cut from a lengthy \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview with President Donald Trump before it aired on CBS Sunday night, sparking criticism from Trump critics and his own FCC. <\/p>\n
President Donald Trump on Oct. 28, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. <\/p>\n
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CBS aired a 28-minute version of O\u2019Donnell\u2019s interview with Trump Sunday night before later releasing a 73-minute-long extended version online and posting a full transcript<\/a> of the conversation, prompting backlash from critics of both sides who slammed the network for what it chose to not include in the shortened version that aired on broadcast television. <\/p>\n Among the topics not included in the initial edit were Trump\u2019s comments about his lawsuit against CBS last year, when he sued the network for editing a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in a way to make her look good before the 2024 election. <\/p>\n Trump has not commented on the episode since it was released.<\/p>\n Get Forbes Breaking News Text Alerts: We\u2019re launching text message alerts so you’ll always know the biggest stories shaping the day\u2019s headlines. Text \u201cAlerts\u201d to (201) 335-0739<\/a> or sign up here<\/a>: joinsubtext.com\/forbes.<\/a><\/p>\n What Did Trump Say That Was Cut From The Broadcast Show?<\/p>\n Trump, who told O’Donnell she could cut his comment from the interview, said, “\u201960 Minutes\u2019 was forced to pay me a lot of money… You can\u2019t have fake news. You\u2019ve gotta have legit news.\u201d He then went on to say he sees “good things happening in the news” thanks to the recent acquisition of Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, by David Ellison’s Skydance Media: \u201cI think it’s the greatest thing that’s happened in a long time to a free and open and good press\u201d (last month Trump called the Ellisons<\/a> “big supporters of mine\u201d). Among other comments cut from the initial broadcast were claims the 2020 election was \u201crigged and stolen\u201d and an attempt to get O\u2019Donnell, who lives in Washington D.C., to admit she\u2019d seen a reduction in crime in the city since he took office. After asking her several times if she\u2019d noticed a difference, O\u2019Donnell said she hadn’t “been out and about that much,” to which Trump replied, “Oh, that’s not a fair answer. You see the difference.” Trump several times acknowledged that the interview was going to be edited, saying things like “you don\u2019t have to put this on” and “you don\u2019t have to use that one.”<\/p>\n Key Background<\/p>\n The interview was the first Trump has done with \u201c60 Minutes\u201d in five years and the first since his lawsuit<\/a> over the Harris interview. He sued for $20 billion and claimed the show deceptively edited Harris’ answer to a question about the Israel-Hamas war after a preview of the interview used a different answer than the official broadcast. The network later released a full transcript of the interview that showed it ran the first sentence of her answer in the preview and the last sentence during the show. Paramount later agreed to pay $16 million to settle the lawsuit, and admitted no wrongdoing. Networks commonly edit interviews for clarity and length to fit their broadcast schedule. <\/p>\n Chief Critic<\/p>\n CBS and O\u2019Donnell have taken flack from elected officials and other journalists for how the interview was conducted, and the heavy edits. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., posted to X<\/a>: “Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview. It will use the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris.\u201d Jonathan Uriarte, spokesperson for FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, said<\/a> the edits and Trump\u2019s seeming awareness they would be made \u201ccould qualify as news distortion and deserves an investigation\u201d according to the standard set by the Trump FCC. Political commentator Tim Miller<\/a> posted on X: “60 Minutes did not air the part where Trump discusses his success in extorting the network and calls them Fake News. This edit is harmful to me and I\u2019m considering suing.” Former MSNBC host Joy Reid called out the interview style itself, saying<\/a>, \u201cNorah let Trump lie and lie with barely any pushback or provision of corrective facts.\u201d<\/p>\n Contra<\/p>\n The White House on Monday morning pushed back against claims that edits of Trump\u2019s interview were comparable to edits of Harris\u2019s: \u201cThey deceptively edited Kamala\u2019s answers to make her look somewhat coherent ahead of an election, you moron \u2014 then wouldn\u2019t release the transcript\/unedited interview,\u201d the White House Rapid Response account posted<\/a> in response to Schumer. \u201cThat\u2019s not the same as editing for time constraints (AND the transcript\/unedited interview were both released).\u201d <\/p>\n Further ReadingForbesTrump \u201860 Minutes\u2019 Interview: Says He Doesn\u2019t Know Who Binance Founder Is Despite Pardoning HimBy Siladitya Ray<\/a>ForbesTrump\u2019s War With The Media: Paramount Settles With Trump Over Kamala Harris InterviewBy Sara Dorn<\/a>ForbesWhat We Know About David Ellison\u2014Soon-To-Be Paramount Chief And Major Hollywood HonchoBy Conor Murray<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Comments about his lawsuit against the show, claims the 2020 election was \u201crigged and stolen\u201d and attempts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[73297,2066,73299,42,7041,43,40,38,41,39,627,73298],"class_list":["post-113311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-60-minutes","tag-cbs","tag-david-ellison","tag-headlines","tag-larry-ellison","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trump","tag-trump-60-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}