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Trump tweeted that he wanted to anticipate the network’s broadcast of the interview on its “60 Minutes” show on Sunday to reveal the “bias, hatred and rudeness” of journalist Leslie Stahl.
This photo from the brochure released by the White House shows the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his chief of staff (not in the photo) participating in a phone call with the vice president, secretary of state and president of the chiefs of staff ensembles from the U.S. on October 4, 2020, in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Image: AFP.
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to release his own footage from an yet-to-air interview with CBS, which he interrupted, angrily complaining of bias.
Trump tweeted that he wanted to anticipate the broadcast of the interview by the chain itself in his 60 minutes Sunday’s show to reveal the “bias, hatred and rudeness” of journalist Leslie Stahl.
Look at the prejudice, hatred and rudeness of 60 Minutes and CBS. Tonight’s host, Kristen Welker, is so much worse! #ITSELF https://t.co/ETDJzMQg8X
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2020
The raw images posted by Trump’s Facebook page, in violation of the White House agreement with the network, appear to show the encounter from start to finish, with the president frustrated at all times by the tone of the interrogation.
Stahl does not raise his voice or interrupt Trump other than to firmly challenge his remarks on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his encouragement of supporters to yell at locking up political opponents and other sensitive issues.
Trump disagrees with what he says was an ambush interview and announces he will cancel the part where Stahl was supposed to continue the discussion while Vice President Mike Pence also joined.
“His first statement was ‘these will be tough questions.’ Well, I don’t care about that, but when you set up the interview, you didn’t say that. You said, ‘oh, let’s have a beautiful interview,’ “” he complains to Stahl just before abruptly calling the end of the interview. Meeting.
Trump also repeatedly complains that CBS and other media outlets have not given his Democratic opponent Joe Biden similarly difficult questions, but have given him “softball after softball.”
“I’ve seen all of his interviews. They have never asked him a difficult question,” Trump said.
CBS also interviewed Biden separately 60 minutes segment, which will air on Sunday.
Trump’s collapse from the interview, taped at the White House Tuesday, came hours before his Thursday night debate with Biden, his last head-to-head pre-election showdown in less than two weeks.
On Twitter, he promised his followers that the images of him with Stahl showed “his constant interruptions and anger. Compare my complete, fluid and ‘magnificently bright’ responses with his’ Qs.”
CBS responded by calling Trump’s breach of the deal on the images “unprecedented” and said this “will not deter 60 minutes to provide comprehensive, fair and contextual reports that presidents have participated in for decades. “
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