Trump backs out of '60 Minutes' primetime interview, CBS says

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN

Former President Donald Trump has backed out of an interview with “60 Minutes,” the most-watched newsmagazine in the United States, according to CBS News.

CBS disclosed Trump’s change of plans on Tuesday evening, a few hours before the network hosts a vice-presidential debate between Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, and Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz.

“For over half a century, 60 Minutes has invited the Democratic and Republican tickets to appear on our broadcast as Americans head to the polls,” the network said in a statement. “This year, both the Harris and Trump campaigns agreed to sit down with 60 Minutes.”

Trump committed first, followed by Harris, through campaign spokespeople, CBS said. Veteran CBS anchor and correspondent Scott Pelley was lined up to interview Trump.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/trump-backs-out-60-minutes-interview-cbs/index.html

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Bok! Bok! Nt

[johnnyplankton]

4. Dammit. He picks NOW to listen to his handlers?

It would have been a complete shitshow.

[Trueblue1968]

31. Trump is scaredy cat, a coward, A scaredy cat. He is a loser. And an ass hole.

[mokeyz]

40. and those are his good points

he sucks!

[Jack Valentino]

32. Smells like CHICKEN!!!!!!

Or perhaps duck. It talks and walks like one...

[marble falls]

2. He was afraid with Harris following him, he was going to get seriously and mercilessly fact checked.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. As he should have for NINE years......

[marble falls]

9. The press stirs shit and also waits to see which way the wind blows to keep selling a false "horse race" scenario.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Dementia J. Trump, as KO labels him, is not sufficiently coherent to do the interview.

He is energizing MAGA nutz, and his campaign doesn't think an interview would be accretive to his vote totals. Plainly evident.

[livetohike]

5. He's mentally incapable of being interviewed. His

team probably talked him out of it. Pathetic that he is still running.

[Lovie777]

6. Chicken.....................

[Lunabell]

7. Why did the chicken cross the road?

To avoid the 60 minute interview, a second debate with Harris and another posible subpoena!

[Jack Valentino]

33. Did the chicken cross that road by himself, or was he wheel-chaired across it

by his handlers ??

[Paladin]

10. Miserable chickenshit. (nt)

[twodogsbarking]

11. Man, television, chicken. I aced the test.

[et tu]

18. you are the best

3 noun/subject testee! lol

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Once a coward and always a coward. tRUMP is a chicken shit, no other way to describe him.

[mwb970]

13. Chickensh*t!

[liberal N proud]

14. CBS should spend the time covering some of his lies

[BOSSHOG]

19. O'Donnell said tonight

That the Harris interview would go on and Pelley would address trumps absence on the Sunday show.

[durablend]

21. Will he really address it

Or will they be "Oh he had a cold or something and couldn't make it"

[BaronChocula]

15. Harris is going ahead with the interview

This is super!

[AZ8theist]

16. FUCKING COWARD.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

17. Click, cluck click, bawk

[maxsolomon]

20. 60 Minutes would be so unfair.

With their actual questions, and their follow up questions, and their editing, and their viewer demographic of upper middle class middle aged and elderly likely voters. So unfair.

[usonian]

22. He could never last 60 minutes, maybe 60 seconds, just ask ....

[Demobrat]

23. He must be in bad shape.

Sure he’ll bluster and lie, but they’ve decided it’s better for him to back out and look like a coward than risk a meltdown under tough questioning. Or any questioning.

He must be allowed to lie with impunity or he’ll go completely crazy. His campaign knows that, even if he doesn’t.

[JoseBalow]

24. Preparing to attack CBS after JD loses the debate tonight

[cstanleytech]

25. Bawk, bawk, bawk

[JohnSJ]

26. Because he will actually have to answer questions

[Mr.WeRP]

27. Donald Trump was a man, he was a BIG Man

But his depends were a leaking
So he went a streaking
down the street!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. So when he eats KFC it's cannibalism.

[ShazzieB]

29. Buck buck baGAWK!

[Martin68]

30. Sounds like Donald is running scared.

[ZonkerHarris]

34. Give Harris the whole hour.

[kevink077]

35. Coward

[LudwigPastorius]

36. Pusillanimous

(...and the other P word, but I won't say that)

[SunSeeker]

37. There will definitely not be another debate either.

The Trump campaign wants everyone to just believe all the lies Vance told tonight and leave it at that.

[TomCADem]

38. At this Point, Why Don't The Just Hide Him In The Basement With His Fawning Worshipers Until After the Election

Typically, a candidate would be going of their way to find a platform to discuss why people should elect them, rather than hiding in small out of the way rallies surrounded by his cult.

[JohnnyRingo]

39. Smart move!

We know he can't survive outside his own bubble. He does not do well with questions that aren't from Hannity.

[sakabatou]

41. Coward

[cab67]

42. the comments section for that article is full of idiocy.

I assume most come from some sort of Russian AI program, but assuming some are from actual red hatters, the cognitive dissonance is disturbing.

[oasis]

43. The lying swine would be a waste of time.

No loss.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. Why would anyone be scared of a little fact check?

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