Trump demands 60 Minutes release the FULL transcript of Kamala Harris interview

Donald Trump is demanding that CBS enactment retired the full, unedited transcript of its interrogation with Kamala Harris amid the contention implicit removing her 'word salad' successful a 60 Minutes interview.

The erstwhile president accused the web of trying to marque his Democratic rival look 'more presidential' and accused them of committing a 'campaign concern violation' for favorably editing the clip of the 2024 hopeful.

The 60 Minutes interrogation with Harris aired Monday nighttime and the web enactment the occurrence connected the show's authoritative YouTube page. But X users were speedy to constituent retired that astatine slightest 1 question was edited to change her reply successful the YouTube version.

Trump demanded CBS News present a nationalist apology.

CBS News and its genitor institution Paramount Global did not respond to a petition for remark from DailyMail.com regarding the decision-making down the edited clip.

Trump National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said successful a Tuesday nighttime statement: 'Why did 60 Minutes take not to aerial Kamala's afloat connection salad, and what other did they take not to air?'

'The American radical merit the full, unedited transcript from Kamala's sit-down interview. We telephone upon 60 Minutes and CBS to merchandise it. What bash they, and Kamala, person to hide?' she added.

She called Harris' effect to 60 Minutes big Bill Whitaker 'idiotic.'

Host Bill Whitaker asked Harris astir whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was listening to the U.S. and whether the medication had immoderate sway implicit the Jewish State's determination making successful its struggle with Hamas terrorists operating retired of Gaza.

'Well Bill, the enactment that we person done has resulted successful a fig of movements successful that portion by Israel that were precise overmuch prompted by oregon a effect of galore things including our advocacy for what needs to hap successful the region,' Harris replied.

Her reply was riddled with agelong pauses and hesitant wording.

Social media erupted with conservatives who were not pleased with the non reply and were vocal astir their disapproval of the VP's 'word salad' connected X.

One idiosyncratic asked idiosyncratic to 'interpret' her reply for them.

But aft the occurrence aired connected 60 Minutes connected Monday night, the mentation that was enactment onto the show's YouTube did not see Harris' nonsensical reply and alternatively included a much truncated, straight-forward and surefooted response. 

'We are not going to halt pursuing what is indispensable for the United States to beryllium wide astir wherever we basal connected the request for this warfare to end,' Harris says successful the edited effect to Whitaker.

Pro-MAGA accounts and blimpish radical connected X were speedy to constituent retired the change.

'I've ne'er seen this before,' Trump wrote connected Truth Social connected Wednesday, 'but the producers of 60 Minutes sliced and diced ('cut and pasted') Lyin' Kamala's answers to questions, which were virtually incoherent… to marque her look 'more Presidential,' oregon a least, better.'

'It whitethorn besides beryllium a large Campaign Finance Violation,' helium claimed.

'This is simply a stain connected the estimation of 60 Minutes that is not recoverable - It volition ever stay with this erstwhile storied brand. I person ne'er heard of specified a happening being done successful 'News.' It is the precise explanation of FAKE NEWS! The nationalist is owed a MAJOR AND IMMEDIATE APOLOGY! This is an unfastened and unopen case, and indispensable beryllium investigated, starting today!' 

The interrogation aired Monday – the aforesaid time that marked the one-year day of the commencement of the Middle Eastern struggle aft Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and carried retired the largest single-day massacre of Jewish radical since the Holocaust.

In the aftermath of the backlash for her effect to 60 Minutes, it appears that CBS News decided to edit the vice president's answer.

Harris' media strategy has remained mostly wide of sit-down interviews with tv networks and has leaned much towards nontraditional avenues – specified arsenic speaking with raunchy, sex-focused Call Her Daddy podcast big Alex Cooper.

The 60 Minutes interrogation was 1 of her fewer agelong signifier sit-downs with a bequest tv network.