It was a train wreck
CBS edited Donald Trump’s Sunday night interview with “60 Minutes” anchor Norah O’Donnell from 73 minutes to 28 for time and clarity. That’s the very thing Trump sued CBS for over a Kamala Harris interview last year. CBS caved and settled for $16 million.
Brett Meiselas zeroes in on Trump’s brag about that. It did not air. (Digby will be along shortly with her focus on the interview.)
What’s clear from the full transcript is how much (for those of a certain age) Trump sounds like a broken record when he talks about those he hates most. He knows whom he hates and whom he blames.
No question from O’Donnell about the Epstein files.
After near-incoherent remarks about rare earth minerals, Trump mentions Joe Biden’s administration 42 times. All it took was for Biden to beat him at the polls once. Biden is to blame for every problem Trump claims to be solving. Except for those associated with Barack Obama: “who was a lousy president, not nearly as bad as Biden.”
Immigrants are criminals (12 times). Immigrants are murderers (8 times). Biden let in 11,888 of them(?).
Venezuela is terrible. Obama was terrible (but not as terrible as Biden who beat him in 2020). Obamacare is terrible. New York AG Letitia James is terrible (and dishonest). Journalists are terrible. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is terrible.
People who investigated him are corrupt. Biden was corrupt: “the most corrupt president and he was the worst president we’ve ever had.” His government was corrupt. But not Donald’s despite his pardoning a crypto currency money launderer Trump claims not to know but who, O’Donnell suggests, “helped facilitate a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin,” owned by Trump’s sons.
So it goes. It’s why retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff, said Trump would rule like a dictator in a second term and was “the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.” Damaged. Seventy-seven million Americans one year ago gave Trump permission to damage the rest of us.
Mehdi Hasan provides a fact check.
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