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George II

(67,782 posts)
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:49 PM Oct 2020

Trump abruptly ends '60 Minutes' interview before taping joint appearance with Pence

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Source: CNN

By Kaitlan Collins and Khalil Abdallah, CNN

Updated 5:23 PM ET, Tue October 20, 2020

(CNN) President Donald Trump abruptly ended a solo interview with CBS News' "60 Minutes" Tuesday and did not return for an appearance he was supposed to tape with Vice President Mike Pence, according to multiple sources familiar with what happened.

After camera crews set up at the White House on Monday, Trump sat down with host Lesley Stahl for about 45 minutes on Tuesday before he abruptly ended the interview and told the network he believed they had enough material to use, according to two sources.

CBS News did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.

With about two weeks until the election, Trump has spent this week lobbing scatter-shot attacks and growing upset at depictions portraying his campaign as doomed. His truncated taping on "60 Minutes," which was followed by a cryptic tweet accusing Stahl of not wearing a mask at the White House, seemed an extension of what has been Trump's visible irritation as he enters the campaign's final days.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/politics/trump-interview-60-minutes/index.html



He's cracking up. Can't wait to see the incident that pushed him over the edge.
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Trump abruptly ends '60 Minutes' interview before taping joint appearance with Pence (Original Post) George II Oct 2020 OP
If it weren't for the agents keeping watch over him, Grokenstein Oct 2020 #1
Steroids and Adderall combined can make one quite cranky. Cousin Dupree Oct 2020 #2
The middle square on my bingo card... 2naSalit Oct 2020 #3
About ten minutes into the interview: George II Oct 2020 #4
Indeed! 2naSalit Oct 2020 #5
LOCKING applegrove Oct 2020 #6

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
1. If it weren't for the agents keeping watch over him,
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:56 PM
Oct 2020

he'd wander away and be found behind a Walmart, screaming conspiracy theories at an empty dog food can.

Cousin Dupree

(1,866 posts)
2. Steroids and Adderall combined can make one quite cranky.
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 05:58 PM
Oct 2020

2naSalit

(86,054 posts)
3. The middle square on my bingo card...
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 06:17 PM
Oct 2020

Still says spontaneous combustion! Got my fingers crossed, it's all I need to win!

George II

(67,782 posts)
4. About ten minutes into the interview:
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 06:25 PM
Oct 2020

2naSalit

(86,054 posts)
5. Indeed!
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 06:42 PM
Oct 2020

So long as no Democrats are harmed in the process!

applegrove

(118,018 posts)
6. LOCKING
Tue Oct 20, 2020, 06:45 PM
Oct 2020

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