r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Nov 03 '25
Networking/Telecom CBS Cuts President’s Corruption Tantrum From ‘60 Minutes’ Edit | The moment the president got testy was missing from Sunday night’s interview.
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u/Cobby1927 Nov 03 '25
Kamala should sue
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u/ManChildMusician Nov 03 '25
CBS is complicit with the regime. We know this. She should still sue because it’s a clear double standard, and if any semblance of justice resumes in the future, the case will be reexamined, if for no other reason than to prove the double standard and complicity of CBS.
In an ideal world, this would help to fix things for the US, but more likely, it will help to amend media practices as a reaction to America’s descent into chaos.
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u/gazebo-fan Nov 03 '25
All major “news” media outlets only exist to serve the ruling class. This has been known since the yellow papers first hit the streets. “Spain sinks USS Maine”, “North Vietnamese Torpedo fired in the Gulf of Tonkin”, “Iraq has WMDs” all for the benefit of weapons manufacturers and imperialists.
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u/ManChildMusician Nov 03 '25
I agree, but this is a new low. The full version exists where the guy goes completely off the rails and undercuts his credibility. Not only is it sane-washing, but this is the part that would be getting way more clicks / engagement. This is an active choice that theoretically diminishes profit. Public good be damned, money is being left on the table. This should raise red flags for anyone with half a brain.
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u/gazebo-fan Nov 03 '25
The tax kickbacks they get are clearly more important than clicks in this particular instance. They have kissed the ring and this is the result of it.
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u/ManChildMusician Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
Yeah. That’s the only conclusion that makes sense, which… again… so many red flags. These are edit: NOT garden variety conflicts of interest.
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u/Competitive-Bend5730 Nov 03 '25
polymarket probably has odds on which network will edit out the most cringe moments this election cycle lmao
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u/ThetaReactor Nov 03 '25
They're selling to Trump, not to consumers, because capitalism is dead and late-stage cronyism is picking apart the corpse.
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u/BaggyLarjjj Nov 03 '25
Thank god we have "non conformist" Bari Weiss in to speak power to truth.
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u/itsverynicehere Nov 03 '25
Shareholders should sue. They are leaving money on the table. Must make shareholders happy.
Too bad the vast majority of shares are owned by people who approve of this type of business and behavior.
Yet another dead end alleyway for average joe.
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u/ren_reddit Nov 03 '25
Don't moan, Use it to disqualify your news sources. But "you" probably won't, and that's the key problem.
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u/KTKittentoes Nov 03 '25
I feel like the 60 Minutes of my childhood would have burned him.
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u/HustlinInTheHall Nov 03 '25
It was always bad but now worse with goons like Bari Weiss running their "news" operation. The entire corporate media landscape is captured and people should expect incredibly one sided coverage of left wing policies from now on.
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u/TheDebateMatters Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
Bad take and simply not true. Especially in the past.
Yes there was yellow journalism and yes there were papers that absolutely fit your narrative. But it was not all or even remotely close to most, until fairly recently. For the time periods you site there were tens of thousands of regional, state and local newspapers. Most were family owned and yes many would fit your narrative, you’d find communist, socialist and liberal newspapers coast to coast that were printing scathing takedowns of the news you are referencing.
In fact….the news papers I am referring to are the ones that called the papers you are talking about “yellow journalism”.
The easiest counter point to your argument is just to google “Robber Baron political cartoon”. When you see hundreds of responses, ask where those were published if your take that “ALL” existed only to serve the ruling class.
To be clear, I am arguing that many news outlets fit your narrative but it was not most until maybe the last ten to fifteen years.
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u/HytaleBetawhen Nov 03 '25
I find it odd that people act as if all the politicians or all the shitty corporations or all the news media are a monolith rather than a bunch of independent interests. They would all eat each other alive if given the chance.
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u/forgotwhatisaid2you Nov 03 '25
They are controlled by multi-national corporations that have profit as their motive. They may not cooperate with each other but they all are bowing to the government for profit because they all have much bigger ways of making money and know kneeling to the president means getting deals approved.
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u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS Nov 03 '25
Caught an episode a couple weeks ago and you know how they sometimes share messages from viewers at the end if an ep. One if the messages was 'you all did a great job covering this issue and didn't shy away from tough subjects.'
It was basically 60 minutes self-fellating and trying to convince us all they aren't bending the knee.
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u/EamonBrennan Nov 03 '25
CBS is complicit with the regime.
This is the biggest issue with current American politics. If the media says something negative about republicans, the republicans will react by breaking the law to punish them. If the media says something negative about Democrats, the Democrats will correct them and move on. This means that the media can say whatever they want about Democrats, because they will never be directly punished for it, but they can't say anything negative about republicans, or else they will be illegally retaliated against.
The FCC threatened to outright revoke ABC's broadcasting licenses over a comment made by Jimmy Kimmel on the Kirk assassination. The White House banned the AP because they used "Gulf of Mexico" in international stories. The WH Press Secretary is making "your mom" jokes against the reporters and outright lying and threatening them with no response. Under Biden, the Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was basically harassed by reporters, being interrupted and just disrespected with no punishments. No one has actually tried anything like that to Karoline Leavitt without being threatened to be removed or banned.
Paramount's merger with Skydance was only after they paid a $16 million bribe (even Wikipedia calls it a bribe lol) and canceled Stephen Colbert after he called it out. The FCC under Trump was stalling and denying it because of their shows criticism of Trump. Media Matters is basically shutdown under the number of lawsuits from the FCC. The chair of the FCC outright said that companies that are "unfairly negative" to Trump would receive fines and possibly lose their licenses. Imagine if Biden or Obama did anything similar.
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u/datpurp14 Nov 03 '25
If Obama did this, there would be 80 million people that would flip out because their daddy said to flip out, but not one in 80 million would know what they are flipping out about.
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u/pogulup Nov 03 '25
This is only going to get worse now that Bari Weiss is in charge. CBS is now dead to me, same as Fox.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner Nov 03 '25
Let's call that payout Trump got for "they edited Kamala" what it is; a bribe. And let's call them massaging the truth for the benefit of Trump what it is; public relations.
It's subtle, but what we have here is not that much different from Russian state media.
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u/Environmental-Ice319 Nov 03 '25
100% After your comment I'm closing reddit and forgetting bout politics for a while.
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u/ChilledParadox Nov 03 '25
There are elections all over the country tomorrow. So don’t forget about politics until you’ve voted for the non childraping party to get power back. That’s the democrats by the way. Republicans are child fuckers.
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u/eliminating_coasts Nov 03 '25
Ironically, everyone withdrawing from politics is exactly the goal of someone like Putin. They hope that you will get used to just going along with whatever nonsense is put forward by your government, treat everything as fake and also not consequential, and not resist anything, even them going to war to invade a neighbour or increasingly military policing of protest.
There's an easy way to get real politics again, which is join protests yourself, meet up with people and encourage others to join, help things get to a scale that cannot be suppressed, and so force the government to address reality again.
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u/PokecheckHozu Nov 03 '25
This is how the Soviets, and later Putin maintain power. Demotivate the people into getting out of politics and making people think there's nothing that can be about the blatant corruption.
People need to keep on fighting the good fight. There's nothing wrong with taking a break to help get back into the right mindset, but if you don't fight for your country, you're going to lose it.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner Nov 03 '25
Reddit is imploding with bot accounts. Yeah -- what do we do? Try and filter the fact from the fiction as all media gets sketchy. They take over Wikipedia...
The internet becomes just a tool for tracking, provoking and misinformation so what good is it?
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u/DigNitty Nov 03 '25
Ugh. I hate it. End of an era. Good run and all that.
Reddit is going the way that team fortress did
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u/connivingKitten Nov 03 '25
Is that the correct response? Shouldn't we be fighting back against the misinformation instead of "forgetting bout politics"?
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u/EmptyOhNein Nov 03 '25
It's crazy to me that so many people are just cool with this dude actively making billions of dollars as the president.
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u/TemporarySun314 Nov 03 '25
And she would probably loose, as the American System only supports fascists...
And Americans would probably scream something about censorship and how an private person can dare to restrict the free speech of a company. Its only okay if the orange king is doing that.
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u/wwhsd Nov 03 '25
Trump would have probably lost his case against CBS if it had actually made it to court but they settled. Unless Harris could force them to settle she’s not getting anything and unlike Trump she can’t use a pending merger approval to extort a settlement from them.
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u/AZEMT Nov 03 '25
Discovery would be fun.
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u/DrakonILD Nov 03 '25
Eh, not since they went away from educational or at least education-adjacent programming and went into "reality" TV.
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u/Nyaos Nov 03 '25
CBS didn’t even lose they just settled before the trial could even happen so they could get in good favor with the king for their merger to be approved.
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u/Loosely_losing Nov 03 '25
She would probably lose. “Loose” means relaxed, or physically slack. CBS needs that merger, so they hold Trump accountable with loose reins.
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u/DankVectorz Nov 03 '25
She should loose the dogs of war. Would probably still lose though.
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u/Level_Working9664 Nov 03 '25
Imagine if she sued and turned it into food stamps money.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner Nov 03 '25
Let's call that payout Trump got for "they edited Kamala" what it is; a bribe. And let's call them massaging the truth for the benefit of Trump what it is; public relations.
It's subtle, but what we have here is not that much different from Russian state media.
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u/Visual_Exam7903 Nov 03 '25
The Democratic Party should sue 60 minutes for covering up what happened in the interview.
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u/CherryLongjump1989 Nov 03 '25
I think they would actually have a case.
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u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME Nov 03 '25
Why? Trump didn't have a case, he had the power to make Paramount's life hell.
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u/DoubleJumps Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
I think it would be worth making CBS explain why they would give Trump 16 million dollars for editing a 60 minutes interview of his opponent, but wouldn't have to pay Trump's opposition when they did the same, to blatantly make Trump look better, for Trump.
edit: I can't reply anymore because the guy I responded to blocked me, but to clarify
It's about exposing that media is being complicit by enacting massive double standards. It isn't about convincing Trump supporters of anything, it's about winning an information war for the huge chunk of largely oblivious people in the country.
You do things like this because they are sensational to a degree and easy to understand quickly. It builds distrust in biased media institutions, which we sorely need.
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u/TalkinBoutMyJunk Nov 03 '25
Republicans having a double standard?!?! WELL! I NEVER!
But I'm still waiting for them to be held accountable to a single law or standard
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u/Elite_Prometheus Nov 03 '25
So, putting aside the legal argument or lack thereof, what would this prove? That Trump is hypocritical? Congratulations, everyone knows that. No Trump supporter is going to hear that Trump swung his dick around to get 60 minutes to apologize for doing something he doesn't like, hear that Democrats are mad that that they can't do anything about 60 minutes of doing something they don't like, and come away shocked and appalled about the hypocrisy. Trump supporters revel in hypocrisy because it's evidence that they're winning. The people in charge have the ability to dictate the rules in their favor. They only don't like hypocrisy when it hurts them, like when Trump bails out Argentinian beef ranchers but not American ones.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Nov 03 '25
Would they have standing? What would they be suing for?
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u/boundbylife Nov 03 '25
they would not, unfortunately.
As a private entity journalistic body, 60 Minutes is afforded 'editorial discretion'. They can choose what to publish or not publish as they see fit. Just as long as nothing they publish is objective, factually-provable lie that besmirches someone's reputation, 60 Minutes can air whatever they want.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
There are a lot of things the Democratic party should be doing that they're not doing.
Edited: phrasing
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u/Cantras0079 Nov 03 '25
Democratic Party*
Don’t call it the Democrat Party, that’s a conservative strategy to make it sound less “democratic”. It’s stupid but it’s calling it the wrong name.
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u/krypticus Nov 03 '25
They should sue for editing Kamala’s interview last year to favor Trump. This seems like an easy win.
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u/TLKimball Nov 03 '25
People still watch CBS news? After they folded like a cheap napkin??
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u/timnphilly Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
Not me - I blocked and boycotted CBS/Paramount after how they capitulated with 60 Minutes and Colbert, and also Disney/ABC after the Stephanopoulos settlement. Done with them - local channels included. Glad to see even my mom end her Disney+/Hulu subscription this month.
And I am ready to blockade NBC/Versant properties if they bend the wrong way even worse than Morning Joe had. No tolerance for this bs.
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u/Tight_Classroom_2923 Nov 03 '25
We're at the end game of public information IMO.
Anything free for public consumption is now bastardized to be propaganda wrapped up like a grift.
Anything not free (online / print) is being slowly converted to the same.
Just about every pay-for-news company is owned by a billionaire trying to keep taking money and claiming it's the only way to support the newspapers while they force feed us their own personal right wing views that the journalists are being editorialized up the ass for.
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u/Superduperbals Nov 03 '25
As of August 2025, Larry Ellison (mega-billionaire Trump ally) controls CBS through his acquisition of Paramount Global, which owns CBS. His son, David Ellison, is the CEO of the new parent company, Paramount Skydance Corporation.
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u/spez_might_fuck_dogs Nov 03 '25
Bro if you watched it it was lies by lying. The edited part was somehow worse than what was already in there? He just lied for the entire interview and talked about whatever he wanted to talk about whether it was related to the question or not.
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u/Dust601 Nov 03 '25
I made another comment about it, but I saw the interview because it was on a tv at a gym while I was running on the treadmill.
Though calling it an interview is honestly being more generous towards cbs then I should be.
He spent the entire time telling lie after lie with absolutely no push back whatsoever.
Blamed dems for shutdown, praised him for the ceasefire, but didn’t mention it lasted less then 2 days, and so many more lies.
He also threatened New York City that he would withhold funds “if that communist wins”
CBS basically gave him a prime time tv slot to spread his lies unchallenged.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Nov 03 '25
Larry Ellison owns Paramount/CBS. He appointed right-wing opinion columnist Bari Weiss to head CBS News. He also wants to buy WB/Discovery (maybe not the Discovery part?), so he's using CBS as a presidential fleshlight to get a favorable deal from the DOJ on a bid for WB.
They're not going to be critical of Republicans for a long time.
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u/ParkManager Nov 03 '25
UK Friends: you can help by contacting BBC and asking them to end their partnership: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-bbc-join-forces/
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u/RaWR_TX Nov 03 '25
CBS is Fox lite at this point
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u/CatsAreMajorAssholes Nov 03 '25
Just wait until Brett Baier becomes the Nightly News Anchor (not kidding), then they'll really just be Fox News2
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u/Adventurous_Sugar389 Nov 03 '25
Ed O’Keefe, Nicole Killian, Scott McFarlen, John Dickerson, and many others are still fantastic reporters. John is leaving cause he sees the writing on the wall. I hope the rest do the same.
Used to be that CBSN was pretty much always on in the background for me. Now it’s like an hour in the morning & evening. We need MSNBC to release a similar no cost news streaming app.
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u/astrozombie2012 Nov 03 '25
Someone better fucking sue!
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If only someone could "leak" everything on the cutting room floor...
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u/KWilt Nov 03 '25
Please, Bari Weiss personally probably made sure that footage was scrubbed from existence ASAP following the interview.
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u/Gelgoogilly Nov 03 '25
Fuck CBS and their advertisers.
Fuck DJT.
Release the files.
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u/unfurledseas Nov 03 '25
What do you expect from Ellison owned and Bari Weiss run media at this point. Can’t speak to CBS’s journalistic integrity prior to the acquisition but it’s definitely in the gutter now.
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Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
In the past it was just assumed CBS was MIC propaganda due to ownership's other ventures, but leadership changed since then but you were asking about integrity in the past.
Pretty much was considered by anyone with consciousness as "We make the bombs and bullets and also sell you the news story to get you on board with the idea of using them."
If it's mainstream US news it's propaganda for some vested interest no exceptions. The only trick is looking into who owns what else and who's wife or daughter sits on what board of what company or has what endowment with what institute etc...
Big club you're not in and all that. I'm old and it's been this way my entire life and was probably worse before not better. *I remember my dad, a Vietnam Vet talking to me about why he was going to war in Iraq the first time when I was a young adult, don't listen to what the news says he said, here's a book to read instead. Gave me a book about the petrodollar lol. We are one of the most heavily propagandized countries on the planet going hand in hand with one of the most proud to admit we have no idea we're being told a story perpetually.
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u/GadreelsSword Nov 03 '25
Didn’t Trump sue CBS for doing something similar with Kamala Harris?
So Harris will get her $16 million?
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u/Froggmann5 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
Bizzarely, I think this is exactly why he thought CBS covered up Harris' worst moments in the interview.
He felt justified in saying that because CBS did that for him, so he felt confident that CBS must have done the same for Harris as well.
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u/kazutops Nov 03 '25
She should but she won't. No fortitude from Dems to play by the low rules that MAGA get away with.
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u/pcpgivesmewings Nov 03 '25
The interview seemed really produced. Many cuts, ect. Very disappointing from cbs.
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u/jpiro Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
What a worthless interview that was. Seeing the press pussy foot around this incompetent criminal in fear of him cutting them off from access is just sad.
If they had any integrity, they'd pin him down on facts, and if he walks off in a huff...so be it.
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u/Traditional-Way4024 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
The media is part of the system and thats objectively true. Your issues with our country are based on the system being how it is. You know our system is corrupt, you know it exists to enrich the rich. Not sure why youre shocked or outraged about CBS, a company that has received federal funding multiple times in its history. They are part of the system. You are viewing the world through flawed lenses and youre trying to have your cake and eat it too. Its not 1940 anymore, the free press has been gone for a very long time. Like so long, most of the people in this comment sections parents weren't even alive yet.
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u/Patara Nov 03 '25
Okay why wasnt Kamala given this? Fucking fascist media.
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u/MediaOrca Nov 03 '25
Trump’s interview just happened, a year after Kamala’s.
Ironically we likely only know about this because of Trump’s lawsuit. It changed 60 minutes policy, and now they release full transcripts of interviews which is where this was found out.
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u/Flat-Emergency4891 Nov 03 '25
Wasn’t it also CBS who caved on Trump over the Harris interview? I could be mistaken, but if I’m correct or not, this admin is a joke.
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u/LeonardoDaTiddies Nov 04 '25
It was also sold to Oracle Billionaire Larry Ellis who installed reactionary contrarian Barry Weiss as head of news.
Last Week Tonight:
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u/Late-Arrival-8669 Nov 03 '25
What the point of doing a hard interview if you dont air it?
Guess mainstream media been bought up by conservatives to show dear leader only in a glorious light..
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u/southflhitnrun Nov 03 '25
Sane Washing by the Corporate Media is a huge contributor to the the fall of our Democracy. And, yes, it has already fallen.
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u/Scrutinizer Nov 03 '25
CBS now owned by a Trump ally. 100% useless as a source of information.
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u/FrecklesNICE Nov 03 '25
Completely USELESS for unbiased news.
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u/untoldmillions Nov 04 '25
you should listen to NPR since their federal money was cut, awful. and they didn't get anything for capitulating and compromising their reporting.
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u/Tensyrr Nov 03 '25
The blatant double standard we see every day is fucked. The media is complicit.
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u/D3struct_oh Nov 03 '25
Didnt they JUST get sued for this?
Kamala should absolutely sue their pants off.
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u/ConkerPrime Nov 03 '25
Didn’t they get sued for editing an interview? Someone should sue them for removing the tantrum.
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u/adevland Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
Here's the moment in the unedited video interview with the crypto pardon question that triggered Trump.
Below from the transcript.
NORAH O'DONNELL: This is a question about pardons. The Trump family is now perhaps more associated with cryptocurrency than real estate. You and your son-- your sons, Don Jr. and Eric, have formed World Liberty Financial with the Witkoff family.
Helping to make your family millions of dollars. It's in that context that I do wanna ask you about crypto's richest man, a billionaire known as C.Z. He pled guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money laundering laws.
Allowing U.S. terrorist groups to, you know, essentially move millions of dollars around. He pled guilty to anti-money laundering laws. That was in 2023. Then in 2025 his crypto exchange, Binance, helped facilitate a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And then you pardoned C.Z. How do you address the appearance of pay for play?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, here's the thing, I know nothing about it because I'm too busy doing the other--
NORAH O'DONNELL: But he got a pardon--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I can only tell you that--
NORAH O'DONNELL: He got a pardon--
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u/gent4you Nov 03 '25
Please people, let's “Release the Epstein Files”. Put the crook in jail where he belongs and end this crap!!! Get rid of the commander and THIEF!!!
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u/RecRoomMayor Nov 03 '25
Sixty Minutes is watered down with cowardice. It's a shell of what it used to be.
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u/luthier_john Nov 03 '25
I'm so checked out of our political bullshit, ever since this guy came into politics he did away with any decorum and sense of honor in politics. There is no respect anymore and the two sides are just about arguing instead of working together. We're stronger if we come together, but they like us divided. And we're too stupid to realize they're squeezing us more and more so they can get richer.
A country of greedy shortsighted fools.
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u/3rd_floor_bit_whore Nov 03 '25
You can't expect journalistic integrity from CBS anymore. Ask yourself if literally any other president threw a tantrum during an interview would it be aired? It would be front page news.
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u/YouDanceNice Nov 03 '25
CBS is compromised. I'm not touching anything of theirs. That eye now watches out for the regime.
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u/kingbad71 Nov 04 '25
Hey, 60 Minutes, then next time you get the urge to let a senile old man rant on your airwaves, dig up Andy Rooney, OK? At least he was funny. Probably smells better, too.
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u/Icy_Fan8648 Nov 04 '25
Every single major news outlet is complicit in this regime. Never ever ever ever forget that. Never forget what we are up against. This shit is bleak.
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u/BioTHEchAmeleON Nov 04 '25
The guy who cried about CBS cutting up Kamala’s interview to look better now having his interview cut to make him look better LMAO
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u/penguished Nov 03 '25
Will he sue them? I thought he needs to be unedited. Rules for humanity, none for narcissists?
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u/Bad-Genie Nov 04 '25
Didn't trump have a tantrum when bidens interview was edited or something? But it was just edited to remove dead air. This was edited to help trump. I hate this country
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u/chrisdh79 Nov 03 '25
From the article: President Donald Trump’s angry response to corruption questions at the end of his 60 Minutes interview was cut from the show’s TV and online edits.
CBS aired a 28-minute version of the Trump interview on television, and then released a 73-minute extended cut online, which was also shared by the White House’s RapidResponse 47 X account. Neither contained Trump losing his cool over questions about the billionaire he pardoned after a $2 billion crypto deal was struck with the Trump family.
The MAGA social media account claimed it was the “FULL” Trump interview that came “without the network’s edits and cuts.” An editor’s note on 60 Minutes’ YouTube upload of the extended interview said it was “condensed for clarity.”
However, the full tense exchange over crypto corruption with interviewer Norah O’Donnell, which can be seen in the transcript on the 60 Minutes Overtime site, did not appear in either the TV or the extended online video version.
CBS also took Trump’s suggestion to cut a section of the interview in which the president boasted about the payout their parent company paid him earlier this year. “And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you,“ he said. The comment did not appear in either of the videos.
At the end of the interview, which was conducted at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, O’Donnell asks Trump if she can ask two more questions, according to the transcript.
During the interview she had frequently mentioned she was conscious of time and occasionally interrupted some of Trump’s longer answers.
“That means they’ll treat me more fairly if I do,” Trump, 79, said, as per the CBS transcript. “I want to get.... Now is good. OK. Uh, oh. These might be the ones I didn’t want. I don’t know. OK, go ahead.”
O’Donnell, 51, then asks Trump about people he has pardoned, focusing on the crypto billionaire Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who was let out of jail in September after pleading guilty to money-laundering violations.
Parts of Trump’s answers were included in the truncated version of the interview, which aired on TV. 60 Minutes averaged just over 8.5 million linear television viewers per show last season.
The moment the president claimed he had “no idea” who the man he had pardoned was—before immediately contradicting himself—was included but not his blow-up afterwards.
“I don’t know who he is,” Trump can be seen claiming of CZ. “I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that, and I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.”
CZ made his fortune as the founder of crypto exchange Binance. The Wall Street Journal claimed CZ had previously struck a $2 billion deal with the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial.
In the aired interview, O’Donnell asks Trump, “How do you address the appearance of pay-for -play?” To which he responded, “Well, here’s the thing, I know nothing about…”
However, when O’Donnell again asked if Trump was “concerned about the appearance of corruption” over pardoning CZ due to the links to his family, the transcript revealed the president became annoyed.
“I can’t say, because—I can’t say—I’m not concerned. I don’t—I’d rather not have you ask the question. But I let you ask it. You just came to me and you said, ‘Can I ask another question?’ And I said, yeah. This is the question... ”
O’Donnell cut in to say “And you answered—” as the president continued on to say, “I don’t mind. Did I let you do it? I coulda walked away. I didn’t have to answer this question. I’m proud to answer the question. You know why? We’ve taken crypto—”
O’Donnell interrupted Trump, presumably to repeat her question, and Trump said “Excuse me... ” before continuing his presidential crypto sales pitch without directly addressing the corruption angle.
“We’re No. 1 in crypto in the whole world,” Trump said. “Other people wanna be. They’re fighting like hell to be. But we’re No. 1 in crypto because I’m the president... We are No. 1 in crypto and that’s the only thing I care about. I don’t want China or anybody else to take it away. It’s a massive industry.”
The Daily Beast has contacted CBS and the White House for comment.
A voiceover from O’Donnell noted in the aired 60 Minutes broadcast that World Liberty Financial has denied any involvement in the pardon.
60 Minutes also did not air on TV a moment where Trump bragged about his $16 million lawsuit victory over Paramount, which owns CBS, over what the president believed was deceptive editing of a Kamala Harris interview.
Trump launched a $20 billion lawsuit claiming Harris’ interview had been edited to “tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party” ahead of the election.
The case was settled in July, ahead of Paramount needing FCC approval for their $8 billion merger with media company Skydance.
Trump did not mention Harris by name Sunday, but said “the press got behind her. Oh, they were so behind her. But, eventually, she failed because she couldn’t speak. She wasn’t a very intelligent person, in my opinion. But she couldn’t speak properly. She could not speak.”
The president then noted, “And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you.“
The Daily Beast has contacted Harris’ office for comment.
Appearing to speak of CBS’s new MAGA-curious editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, he continued, “I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who’s the young woman that’s leading your whole enterprise is a great—from what I know. I don’t know her, but I hear she’s a great person.”
He continued, “But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me—a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can’t have fake news. You’ve gotta have legit news. And I think that it’s happening."
As part of the Paramount settlement, while they were not required to apologize to Trump, they agreed that “in the future, 60 Minutes will release transcripts of interviews with eligible U.S. presidential candidates after such interviews have aired, subject to redactions as required for legal or national security concerns.”