Trump won’t participate in interview for ’60 Minutes’ election special

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Trump won't participate in interview for '60 Minutes' election special
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CBS News said Tuesday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has declined to participate in an interview with “60 Minutes” for its election special, which will go forward next Monday with Democratic opponent Kamala Harris alone.

Television’s top-rated news program regularly invites the two presidential contenders for separate interviews that air back-to-back on a show near the election. This year, it is scheduled for Monday instead of its usual Sunday time slot.

Asked for comment, the former president’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said, “Fake news,” adding that there were discussions but nothing was ever locked in.

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He is so scared lol

He is 80 years old and talks about cats eating dogs and that is just not winning debates.

He is not

Why won't your favorite traitorous rapist felon do it then?

I'll help you out here: it's because he's a scrambled brain pussy ass bitch.

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Elaborate please

I'll jump in on this. I don't think he's "scared" I think he's just "not competing" any more.

I believe his whole strategy hinges on 2 things:

  1. Core trump voters need no convincing
  2. Election result fuckery

He isnt messing with the votes, thats why he pushes for paper ballots, because its harder to artificially inflate the vote amount, it is easier with voting machines

God your brain is just mush eh? Please don't procreate.

He is too dumb to be scared.

then why doesn't he do the interview?

Because he's seen the resulting data from times he's failed interviews, so is listening to his handlers' recomendations.

that sounds smarter than just being scared.

Which is why a second term for him should be terrifying for everyone else.

Well, he is clearly confident that he will win, he has to be, no one wants a president that is scared and has no confidence

If he wasn't scared he would do the interview. If he is afraid it would make him look bad he wouldn't do the interview.

That's fear.

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I'm concerned about this new strategy of keeping Trump under wraps. He is his own worst enemy, and now instead of hearing it straight from the horses mouth, they're keeping him sheltered and filtered through only the most loyal media outlets. Leaving his mob to use their imagination, which will be exactly what they wish to see and hear. It's shrewd in an idiotic way. I can only hope that Trunp will become impatient with being handled and show his true colors at least a few nore times.

I'm concerned about how, whether Trump participates and makes a fool of himself or drops out like the coward he is, the headlines will still all be about Trump. This is exactly the media approach that got him elected first time.

If the dem party keeps up the replaying of his stupid shit over and over they can keep that on folks’ minds. Not the best but it always works for the republicans.

Not just that....

Leaving his mob political pundits to use their imagination

This is what is giving Trump fuel.

Lol. The orange asshole wouldn't get within a mile of 60 Minutes because he knows he'd be shredded to bits.

CNN is owned by right wing billionaires. In fact pretty much all US major media is. So "shredding" is unlikely. More likely they would continue sanewashing the fascist conman and excusing all his dementia rambles.

60 Minutes is on CBS, not CNN.

Still owned by right wing billionaires. Isn't this the same CBS that didn't fact check the vp debate?

If CNN was right-wing, it wouldn’t be full of fucking bullshit like the rest of the news agencies

Oh you're so close, bless your little scrambled brain.

The ENTIRE fascist right wing magat party is NOTHING BUT BULLSHIT.

Ha, called it.

Calling it now:

Since there’s not enough time left for him to recover from this brutal ego bruise, I predict he’ll only do rallies from now on, or appearances on far-right media, because he’ll retreat to his snowglobe for reassurance for a while. He’ll avoid addressing Kamala directly, but he’ll ramp up his own network and rile up his mob. His team will struggle to rein him in, and some appearances might be cancelled.

Pussy

Nope. I don’t see Trump being adaptable and able to take a pounding. He’s a chicken, without the taste.

Let’s not use that term negatively, because in reality, they’re a LOT tougher than you think.

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Why would he. He’s probably suffering PTSD from his last failed attempt to stand and be counted amongst human beings.

He can only appear intelligent and competent at his own rallies where everyone’s knuckles drag equally along the ground.

So he doesn't want to be interviewed because it would contribute fake news? I mean he's not wrong.

Maybe this is noteworthy? I don't know, I think trump is pathetic for an endless list of reasons, but at the same time I think that something that isn't happening is literally the opposite of news.

Like, if the election came and went, and trump never did this interview with 60 minutes, who would have noticed, especially amongst his whole circus?