Donald Trump on skipping 60 Minutes interview: ‘The worst and most blatant scandal’

Donald Trump doubled down on CBS’ 60 Minutes edit row and called it the worst and most egregious scandal in broadcasting history. He said he had done an interview on 60 Minutes many times when “journalism was respected and legitimate” as his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, questioned why Donald Trump did not face 60 Minutes and thereby break the electoral tradition of decades.
”I’ve done 60 Minutes many times, even in the good old days when journalism was respected and legitimate, but I’ve never seen a really bad answer REPLACED by another totally unrelated answer, in order to save the person . great personal and professional shame. What 60 Minutes did in doing so was election interference and fraud. It’s the worst and most egregious scandal in broadcasting history, and it won’t soon be forgotten. Just watch!” Trump posted on Truth Social as the presidential race heats up and the election is just three weeks away.

What is the dispute over the editing of Kamala Harris’ 60 Minutes interview?
CBS issued an entirely different answer to the same question that was teased as a preview of the interview on social media, prompting demands that CBS release the full transcript of the original interview without its clever editing . The network released a full transcript of the broadcast that night but did not have the answer Harris gave to a question about the war in Gaza.
In a parallel controversy, Donald Trump pulled out of the interview at the last minute after the network said it would fact-check.
As Kamala Harris questioned Donald Trump’s decision to skip the interview, she called Donald Trump unstable, deranged and out of control. “Watch his rallies. Listen to his words. He tells us who he is and tells us what he would do if he were elected president,” Harris told a large crowd in Pennsylvania on Monday.