President Donald Trump reacted to the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) release of the full transcript from an October CBS News interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, arguing the outlet « defrauded the public. »
« CBS and 60 Minutes defrauded the public by doing something which has never, to this extent, been seen before. They 100% removed Kamala’s horrible election-changing answers to questions, and replaced them with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview, » Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social.
« This was Election-changing ‘stuff,’ Election Interference and, quite simply, Election Fraud at a level never seen before. CBS should lose its license, and the cheaters at 60 Minutes should all be thrown out, and this disreputable ‘NEWS’ show should be immediately terminated, » he continued.
The FCC released the unedited transcript and video handed over by CBS News on Wednesday of its « 60 Minutes » interview with Harris that was conducted just weeks before the 2024 presidential election.
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The raw transcript showed CBS News had aired only the first half of her response to « 60 Minutes » correspondent Bill Whitaker’s question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu « not listening » to the Biden administration in a preview clip that aired on « Face the Nation, » but aired only the second half of her response during the primetime special.
« But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening, » Whitaker said in the October 2024 interview. « The Wall Street Journal said that he— that your administration has repeatedly been blindsided by Netanyahu, and in fact, he has rebuffed just about all of your administration’s entreaties. »
FCC Chair Brandon Carr said CBS News’ conduct was difficult to explain.
« CBS’s conduct is hard to explain, » Carr told Fox News Digital. « On the one hand, CBS immediately released the unredacted transcript of a recent interview with Vice President Vance. Yet for months they refused to release the one with Vice President Harrris. »
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CBS News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Fox News’ Brian Flood and Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
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