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I don’t even think Trump knows what is even true, he is so wound up in his lies and fantasy world that he wouldn’t recognize it. It is almost like that he is afraid of the truth.

‘60 Minutes’ Says Trump Canceled Special Because They Were Fact-Checking, Wouldn’t Apologize for 2020 Interview | Video

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The Wrap

By Benjamin Lindsay

October 7, 2024

At the top of CBS’ “60 Minutes” interview special with Vice President Kamala Harris, host Scott Pelley addressed the Donald Trump-shaped elephant in the room by detailing for the first time why the Republican presidential nominee abruptly canceled their scheduled sit-down last week.

The journalist said Monday that in messaging with Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung from early September to last week’s cancellation, “60 Minutes” received “shifting explanations” for the nominee’s unexpected refusal to sit with them.

Pelley cited everything from the news magazine’s practice of fact-checking interview subjects to its decline to apologize for a 2020 interview with Lesley Stahl as Cheung and Trump’s reasoning.

“A week ago, Trump backed out. The campaign offered shifting explanations. First it complained that we would fact-check the interview. We fact-check every story,” Pelley explained. “Later, Trump said he needed an apology for his interview in 2020. Trump claims correspondent Lesley Stahl said in that interview that Hunter Biden’s controversial laptop came from Russia. She never said that. Trump has said his opponent doesn’t do interviews because she can’t handle them.”

He is afraid of appearing before a non-MAGA crowd… they might make him look bad. It might make him look like the raving lunatic he is.

The host also stated that because Trump has also declined a second debate with Harris to this point, the Monday night special “may have been the largest audience for the candidates between now and election day. Our questions addressed the economy, immigration, reproductive rights, and the wars in the Middle East and Europe. Both campaigns understood this special would go ahead if either candidate backed out.”

I think that the number of lies Trump tells is directly proportional to how scared he is.

Harris, however, did interview with “60 Minutes” as part of a robust slate of media appearances this week that otherwise includes “The Late Show” and “The Howard Stern Show.”

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