Donald Trump has despatched a letter to CBS News asking the community to launch the unedited transcript of its 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, Fox News Digital reported. Trump’s authorized counsel Edward Andrew Paltzik wrote the letter on behalf of the previous president.
Paltzik stated within the letter that CBS News “deliberately misled the general public by broadcasting a skillfully edited interview transcript… aimed toward inflicting confusion among the many citizens concerning Vice President Kamala Harris’s talents, intelligence, and enchantment.”
“News organizations comparable to CBS have a duty to precisely signify the reality of occasions, not distort an interview to attempt to make their most popular candidate seem coherent and decisive, which Harris most actually will not be,” the legal professional added. “Due to CBS’ actions, the general public can’t distinguish which Kamala Harris they’re seeing: the candidate or the puppet of a behind-the-scenes editor.”
‘We demand that you just protect all communications and paperwork referring to this Interview’
The letter was despatched after 60 Minutes broke its silence after Trump accused it of deceptively modifying the Harris interview. In the assertion, the community blasted Trump’s declare as “false.”
Trump’s authorized group, nevertheless, has doubled down within the letter. “President Trump is rightly alleging that CBS’s ‘doctoring’ of Harris’s solutions on 60 Minutes was misleading. The allegation will not be merely that CBS was dishonest; it’s that CBS deceived viewers into pondering Harris’ reply was, on the very least—as CBS put it—extra ‘succinct’ than the phrase salad it truly was,” Paltzik wrote. “The executives and producers at CBS, and 60 Minutes specifically, are unquestionably conscious that the aim behind modifying the Interview was to confuse the citizens and painting the Vice President in a greater gentle than a full, unedited transcript would reveal. Responsible information sources have to be held accountable to the very best requirements.”
“We subsequently demand that you just instantly present and publicly launch the complete, unedited transcript of the 60 Minutes Interview with Kamala Harris. Additionally, in contemplation of potential litigation, we demand that you just protect all communications and paperwork referring to this Interview, along with any edits of the Interview’s content material, and that you just chorus from destroying any related communications or paperwork. Kindly affirm receipt of this letter inside 48 hours and additional affirm your intention to cooperate with these calls for,” the letter added.
Meanwhile, Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday, October 21, “When will CBS launch their Transcript of the fraudulent Interview with Comrade Kamala Harris? They modified her reply with a view to make Kamala look clever, reasonably than “dumb as a rock.” This would be the Biggest Scandal in Broadcast History! CBS MUST GET THE TRANSCRIPT OUT NOW — Litigation has already began. Harris wasn’t capable of put two sentences collectively, in order that they utterly eliminated her reply, and put in one other one. The Public has a proper to know what was modified to save lots of this TOTALLY UNFIT Presidential Candidate from our Country’s Voters. SHE IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!”