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WASHINGTON (AP) – 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 network’s interview on his “60 Minutes” show on Sunday to reveal the “bias, hatred and rudeness” of journalist Leslie Stahl.
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 statements on handling the coronavirus pandemic, his encouragement to 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, that doesn’t matter to me, 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 meeting’s end.
Trump also repeatedly complains that CBS and other outlets have not given his Democratic opponent Joe Biden similarly difficult questions, but have given him “softball after softball.”
“I have seen all your interviews. They have never asked him a difficult question, “Trump said.
CBS also interviewed Biden for a separate “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 images of him with Stahl showed “his constant interruptions and anger. Compare my complete, flowing, ‘gorgeously bright’ answers to your ‘Q’s. “
CBS responded by calling Trump’s breach of the deal on the images “unprecedented” and said this “will not deter ’60 Minutes’ from providing its full, fair and contextual report that presidents have participated in for decades.” .
