CBS News’ use of dishonest editing to replace one of Kamala Harris’ famous word salads with a less embarrassing answer in her “60 Minutes” appearance is probably the “biggest scandal in broadcast history,” former President Donald Trump told podcast host Joe Rogan in an interview Friday night.
In the three-hour interview — which had accrued a million views within the first two hours of being published on YouTube — Trump and Rogan discussed everything from the Republican’s economic and foreign policy to personal anecdotes like how President Trump reacted to seeing the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House for the first time when he moved in.
About half an hour in, Trump’s attention turned to the “crooked” corporate media.
“They’re diminishing themselves, they’re killing all their credibility,” Rogan agreed.
But CBS News’ recent substitution of Harris’ bad answer for a better one, Trump said, was “the worst I’ve ever seen.” After releasing a preview clip of Harris’ interview that included a nonsensical response to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, CBS removed her response entirely in the “full” version of the interview and dropped in a completely different answer. The original answer is conspicuously missing from the transcript that CBS released, and the network’s continued refusal to release an unedited transcript has sparked speculation that it may be hiding even more outrageous edits or even let the vice president re-do her answers.
“Kamala goes on ’60 Minutes,’ gave an answer that a child wouldn’t give, it was so
