Former President Donald Trump will not sit down for an interview with “60 Minutes” next week, saying that CBS News still owes him an apology over a “60 Minutes” interview in 2020 that Trump says was conducted unfairly.
The news program reached out to both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, requesting that they sit down for interviews just weeks before Election Day. Harris agreed to an interview with CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker, but Trump rejected an offer to sit down with Scott Pelley for an interview that would air next Monday.
CBS said on Tuesday that Trump backed out of the interview after initially agreeing to it, but Trump campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung shot back at the network, saying, “60 Minutes begged for an interview, even after they were caught lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop back in 2020. There were initial discussions, but nothing was ever scheduled or locked in.”
“They also insisted on doing live fact checking, which is unprecedented,” Cheung added.
Trump addressed the “60 Minutes” interview request during a press conference in Milwaukee on Tuesday and said he “would love to do ’60 Minutes,'” but he’s waiting for an apology. In October 2020, Trump walked out of an interview with Leslie Stahl after Stahl fact-checked Trump numerous times and denied that Joe Biden was in the middle of a scandal stemming from Hunter Biden’s laptop, which contained information about the Biden family’s alleged foreign business dealings.
“Well, right now, they came to me and would like me to do an interview, but first I want to get an apology, because the last time I did an interview with them, if you remember, they challenged me on the computer,” Trump said. “They said the ‘laptop from hell’ was from Russia, and I said it wasn’t from Russia.”
“If you remember Lesley Stahl, we got into a little bit of an argument on the camera, talking about that and other things. And you know, they really owed me an apology,” Trump added.
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Harris’ interview on “60 Minutes” will air on Monday, October 7, and CBS said the conversation will focus on the economy, immigration, and continued global conflicts. Harris was interviewed by Whitaker on “60 Minutes” last October after Hamas’ brutal October 7 attack on Israel and was asked what message the Biden-Harris administration would send to Iran.
“Don’t,” Harris replied, repeating a response given by President Joe Biden. “One word. Pretty straightforward.”
On Tuesday, Iran escalated the conflict in the Middle East, firing more than 150 missiles at Israel.