There was a time when Trump actually sued CBS for editing out an innocuous piece of a Kamala Harris interview.
Look what they edited out of Trump’s on Sunday. (This is from the transcript which they released to the public but the video is behind their paywall. Cute. )
NORAH O’DONNELL: What did security tell you about what may have been his motives?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, see, they– the part– the reason you have people like that is you have people doing No Kings. I’m not a king. What I am– if I was a king I wouldn’t be dealing with you. No, I’m not a king. I– I get– I– I don’t laugh. I don’t– I– I see these No Kings, which are funded just like the Southern Law was– funded– you saw all that? Southern Law is financing the KKK and lots of other radical, terrible groups. And then they go out and they say, “Oh, we’ve gotta stop the KKK.” And yet they give, you know, hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars.
NORAH O’DONNELL: They were –
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It’s a total scam run by the Democrats. It shows you that– like Charlottesville. Charlottesville was all funded by the Southern Law. That was a Southern Law deal too. And it was done to make me look bad, and it turned out to be a total fake. It basically was– a rigged election.
This was a part of the rigging of the election. And that’s what you really should be doing. I mean, I hope one of your 60 Minute episodes, which really hasn’t changed very much for the last few years. I’m surprised.
Charlottesville was a hoax? Who knew? And it was part of rigging of the election. Hmmm. Charlottesville took place in 2017.
Trump’s always been a little bit scattered but if you think he would have said something that disjointed five or six years ago you need to go back and look. His mind is much more disordered and he gets worse when he’s stressed.
RESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I’ve also– I’ve also won a lot of money from fake news media where they write falsely about me. And– not that I wanna sue people, ’cause I don’t. But I bring lawsuits against the fake news. I brought lawsuits against your network and you paid me $38 million because you did something that was so horrible with– Kamala.
You put an answer down that wasn’t responsive to the question because her answer– her real answer was so bad it was election-threatening. And– you paid me a lotta money. And you tried to pull one off. It was terrible. It was a terrible thing that you did.
They hid that Charlottesville drivel on his behalf. I guess he made his point.
Trump’s new overarching theory of everything is that any criticism or opposition to him is rigging the elections. How’s he going to carry that forward I wonder?