The anti-Trump media has plenty of tricks up its sleeve to embarrass the President.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is wise to these games.
And Karoline Leavitt unleashed hell on this fake news media outlet for one plot to sabotage Trump.
As American Media Watch Dog articles:
President Trump agreed to an interview with new CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil.
This represented a major thawing of relations between Trump and CBS.
Trump refused to sit for a 60 Minutes interview during the 2024 campaign after correspondent Lesley Stahl falsely claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation in a 2020 interview.
Remember when Trump tied to bring up Hunter Biden's crimes and Lesley Stahl laughed and called it discredited? pic.twitter.com/Gk6BwCDPWw
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 3, 2024
“Where’s my apology? They should apologize,” Trump said at a press conference when asked why he wouldn’t do 60 Minutes. “They were wrong on everything. So I’d like to get an apology. So I’ve asked them for an apology.”
But just because Trump agreed to sit for an interview with CBS doesn’t mean the White House press team trusted the network to operate on the up and up.
The New York Times reported that Leavitt insisted to Dokoupil that CBS air the interview with Trump unedited.
Trump said, “Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full,” a recording of Ms. Leavitt speaking with Dokoupil showed.
“Yeah, we’re doing it, yeah,” Dokoupil replied.
That’s when Leavitt warned that if CBS didn’t follow through, then Trump would sue the network.
“He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your *** off,’” Leavitt was heard saying.
This was no idle threat.
CBS’s parent company, Paramount, paid Trump a $16 million settlement last summer after the network misleadingly edited an interview with Kamala Harris during the 2024 campaign to try to make her sound coherent.
Here are the two different 60 Minutes edits layered on top of each other in full. You will hear where Whitaker's questions line up, and the different edited answers from Harris.
SC 1842 (bottom) is what aired on Monday night.
SC 1843.5 (top) is what the Face the Nation X account… pic.twitter.com/FEuQp2o0kn— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 9, 2024