Trump loses cool as he's grilled on '60 Minutes' — but CBS cuts it from broadcast
Again and again, they prove their projection is all about intent, and the hypocrisy doesn't matter. They SAID someone did something they intended to do, and even though it's bullshit, they go and do it.
In this case, bitching about 60 Minutes "helping" the Harris campaign by editing for time, when they intended to force journalists to capitulate to them editing for actual content.
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Didn't he just sue 60 minutes for editing the interview with Harris?
Yes. My point.
Don't forget Fox News edited his interview on the release of the Epstein files.
Yeah that’s why u thought it was super weird he would go on the show.
But I guess CBS and ABC are now Trump propaganda outlets.
As soon as Larry Ellison's check cleared.
This isn't an interview in the traditional sense. It's a demonstration of fealty.
Yeah it was just like abusive people who force partners to hug/kiss them in public while beating them at home.
“I don’t know who he is” - this answer should be immediately disqualifying for a president who just gave out a pardon. They should have asked about 50 follow-up questions just based on his incompetence at pardoning people just because Biden’s justice dept found them guilty.
Yeah the immediate reply is “if you don’t know him, why pardon him?”
He’ll say “Biden witch hunt”
Then the report should say “how do you know which arrests are real and which are a Biden witch hunt”
And he’ll just be like “you dumb piece of shit why would you ask me that question? You know I take orders from Stephen Miller”
I hate it here. We are so fucked.
Sounds awfully similar to the whole “Biden pardoned people he didnt even know who they were! Illegitimate president! Autopen!! Fairy Godparents!1!!!1!” situation
It’s only bad when the democrat does it.
Always projection.
And the only reason Trump didn't use an autopen was because he was too stupid to know how to operate it.
Disqualifying from what? You think there's some guy running around the White House who is going to hand the President a yellow-card?
Congress has been rubber stamping the Unitary Executive Theory since at least Reagan and Iran-Contra. The courts have been fully Executive-Pilled since Bush. Presidents get to do whatever they fucking want. Nixon was a piece of shit, but he was 100% correct in his assessment of the power of the office.
Disqualifying from public opinion as someone who deserves the role of president. Just like all the other things that he’s done at least five times a day for the past ten years, the fact that he can’t identify someone he just pardoned should clue his followers in to the fact that he’s not capable of doing the job.
The presidency isn't awarded via merit. Who would you even trust to make that judgement? They'd effectively be a kingmaker, making their selection "President-by-Proxy".
Changpeng Zhao is a bitcoin shilling billionaire whose firm was instrumental in laundering Trump-branded cryptocurrency through his World Liberty Financial organization. You can read this denial from two angles.
This is Trump effectively distancing himself from a person he took a massive bribe from. In that case, he's definitely "doing his job" from the perspective of his ultra-orthodox libertarian and paleoconservative supporters. Because the job of the President (really, of everyone, as Objectivism teaches) is to protect the property class and collect a vig as reward.
This is Trump milling through so much minutae on a daily basis that he can't recall particulars of a single action taken a week ago on the spot. At which point, why would any of his supporters be angry at him for looking busy? Nothing about the pardon is unappealing on its face. If he doesn't remember the details, I'm sure any one of his supporters - many of whom are cryptobros or business scammers in their own right - can fill in the gaps.
Either way, the problem you've got with Trump is his policy, not his cognitive ability. He could be a literal Chinese Room or Philosophical Zombie, laundering inputs into outputs without any actual mental inputs, and it wouldn't matter. He pardoned a wealthy financial ally in exchange for a kickback. That's what Presidents (particularly Republicans) have a long history of doing. You're not going to find many people in his base who are angry at him for it.
FFS, he could pardon Ghislaine Maxwell at this point and his base would probably still love him based on how many are pro-pedophilia.
He sued them for editing the interview with Harris but he would also sue them for showing the parts of his interview that make him look bad
Yuuuuup
This is fine
And Sherri Redstone is laughing all the way to the bank :(
He should sue them for editing his interview
Well someone should
Shocked, yes shocked I am to find that journalism is taking a knee to fascism in this corporate establishment.
Totally not alarming. A good solid blue vote in the midterms in just 12 short months away will fix that (once Johnson figures out how to also swear in the non GOP congress people)
A blue wave is not coming. Go look at projections for 2026.
No taxation without representation.
If the speaker is preventing my elected official from representing me, then I shouldn't have to pay a fucking cent until they are seated.
Good luck withholding taxes.
It's worked in the past.
It's more that for most people paying taxes is automatic and they have zero control. My job pays the taxes out of my paycheck before I get any of the money, I cannot withhold taxes without quitting my job.
Not sure how it works in USA but can’t you elect to not have your employer withhold your taxes for you and then have to pay your annual tax in a lump sum at the end of the fiscal year? That’s part of standard HR taxation forms here in Australia and some people do it in order to invest what they would otherwise be paying in taxes then divest at tax time, pay their tax, and hold onto the capital gains from their investment that they’d otherwise not have had access to. Sure they pay capital gains tax on that but it’s still a net windfall if their investments accrue.
Yup. The admin knows that a blue wave is an existential threat to corruption. They have no interest in allowing a free and fair election. Every fight to protect democracy is now critical, from here until Nov 2026.
Every month, they've committed further abominations against law and process. 12 more to go.
Okay, tap the breaks. Democrats are a lot of things. But they've never been a barrier to corruption. You just have to be willing to cut them in.
My bad on the phrasing. I meant individual acts and actors, and spoke too broadly.
We lost the fight in 2024. Try to remember to turn off the lights if you're the last one out.
What trend? What data are you looking at?
I mean, I've seen pollsters all over the map. But I also saw "Blue Wave in 2024/2016" and "Red Wave in 2020/2018". Who are you looking at and why do you trust them more than that lady who said Harris would win Iowa by 5 points?
Historically, newly elected Presidents eat shit in the midterm. Bush Jr was a singular exception, riding a huge reactionary wave through 2002. And he had 90% approval ratings at his peak. I'd be curious to know what you think Trump is working with that cements his very narrow House and Senate margins against a bunch of angry "Throw The Bums Out" voters (many within his own party).
2026 midterms will be the test run for the fixed elections in 2028.
Will fix what? At best it's a patch until some other state actor rips it off.
And here we have it folks, the reason we are where we are right now
One of the top 5 anyway
Because I recognize that presidential power has only ever expanded in the last 75 years and nothing has curtailed it? I didn't say no temp fix will happen, but it'll likely be similar to the effect Obama or Biden has had: still expanding presidential power, just at a slowed pace.
We are here because Democrats keep trying to be centrists instead of a left movement and that keeps power squarely in Republicans hands, not because I recognize what Democrats haven't done.
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Yep can't have perfect so let's have ninth circle of hell instead
ffs
The fucking media are such pussies.
I wish news outlets were run by journalists who burn with a passion to be the one who breaks the story that turns the whole world upside down, and not money grubbing billionaire parasites.
Every single institution that was supposed to protect the US, without exception, failed miserably in the name of profit seeking.
Trump was always a weakling when faced with the slightest scrutiny. It is impossible to overstate the importance of The Apprentice in giving him that image of being a decent businessman... while on the show he would act against the script/guidance (I don't know what they are called in reality shows) and always throw the writers in a tizzy as they would rework everything to make him and his decisions seem like a good thing against all facts. Fox News basically is trying to do that with his real decisions, but they can't shield people from the actual reality of his actions.
Is the unedited version leaked and archived anywhere?
I think I've seen the transcript referenced in people covering the story.
Leak that shit.
lol, can't even pick one line of bullshit and stick with it
The big networks have all fallen. They are no longer the 4th branch. They are just spineless clowns.
Estate
Wouldn't do to have their viewership disillusioned by any realities
This guy loses his cool eating a bowl of cereal. He can't go five minutes without fuming over rainbows or something. That ape is not well by any metric.