Trump’s collapse in interview comes hours before his Thursday night debate with Joe Biden (File)
Washington:
US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to release his own footage of an yet to air CBS interview he interrupted, angrily complaining of bias.
Trump tweeted that he wanted to anticipate the network’s own broadcast of the interview on Sunday on his “60 Minutes” show in order to expose journalist Leslie Stahl’s “prejudice, hatred and rudeness”.
Raw footage posted by Trump’s Facebook page, in violation of the White House’s deal with the network, appears to show the meeting from start to finish, with the president frustrated throughout the tone of the questions.
Stahl only raises his voice or interrupts Trump to firmly challenge his statements about handling the coronavirus pandemic, his encouragement of supporters to sing to lock up political opponents and other sensitive issues.
Trump disputes what he says is an ambush interview and announces that he is canceling the part where Stahl was supposed to have continued the discussion while also being joined by Vice President Mike Pence.
“Your first statement was’ these will be tough questions. ‘Well, I don’t mind that, but when you set up the interview you didn’t say it. You said,’ Oh, let’s have a nice interview ‘”, he complains to Stahl just before abruptly ending the meeting.
Trump also complains on several occasions that CBS and other media did not ask equally tough questions of Democratic opponent Joe Biden, instead giving him “softball after softball.”
“I’ve seen all of his interviews. He’s never been asked a tough question,” Trump said.
CBS also interviewed Biden for a separate “60 Minute” segment, which is scheduled to air on Sunday.
Trump’s collapse in the interview, taped at the White House on Tuesday, came hours before his Thursday night debate with Biden – their last direct clash before the election in less than two weeks.
On Twitter, he promised his followers that the images of him with Stahl showed “his constant interruptions and anger. Compare my full, flowing, and” beautifully brilliant “responses to their” Q’s. “
CBS responded by calling Trump’s breach of the footage deal “unprecedented” and said it “will not deter” 60 Minutes “from providing its full, fair and contextual reporting in which Presidents have been involved for years. decades. “
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