CBS says Trump is a liar who chickened out of interview because of fact checking.
By Curt_Anderson October 8, 2024 1:16 pm Category: Fact Check (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Let me guess, MAGA media will not be playing the first minutes of 60 Minutes when Trump was lambasted for backing out of the interview after he learned there would be fact checking. Nevertheless, millions of Americans saw and heard it.
The Trump campaign had said that the interview would be this past Thursday at Mar-A-Lago, Trump's Florida home. It also asked whether 60 Minutes would meet 78-year-old Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the Republican candidate for president was grazed by a bullet in an assassination attempt. 60 Minutes agreed. On Sept. 9, Trump communications director Steven Cheung sent a text that read: "I'm working with our advance team to see logistically if Butler would work in addition to the sit down."
Days later, Cheung called to say "the president said yes."
Then, a week ago, Trump backed out. The campaign offered shifting explanations. First, it complained that 60 Minutes would fact check the interview.
"There were initial discussions, but nothing was ever scheduled or locked in," Cheung said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "They also insisted on doing live fact checking, which is unprecedented."
60 Minutes fact checks every story it broadcasts.
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.
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Let me guess, MAGA media will not be playing the first minutes of 60 Minutes when Trump was lambasted for backing out of the interview after he learned there would be fact checking. Nevertheless, millions of Americans saw and heard it.
