60 Minutes Holds Trump Accountable For Backing Out Of Interview

Several times during the primetime special, 60 Minutes explained why and talked about Donald Trump backing out of the agreed upon interview.

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60 Minutes Doesn’t Let Trump Get Away With Backing Out

Since President Joe Biden took office the corporate media has been ceaselessly complaining that he wouldn’t give them interviews and special treatment. After his debate performance those complaints grew even louder, and somehow they transferred over to VP Kamala Harris when she became the Democratic candidate.

It doesn’t matter that Harris did national interviews for three and a half years before becoming the nominee. The only thing that counted was now.

The corporate press also ignored the fact that while Donald Trump made himself available for interviews about their books, the ex-president never did interviews with them.

Trump has done exactly two mainstream media interviews during this election campaign . He did a town hall with Kaitlin Collins on CNN, and he did a Meet The Press interview with Kristen Welker.

Trump holds “press conferences” where he doesn’t answer the questions that are asked, but otherwise, Trump’s interviews happen on conservative media, and no one seems to give it a second thought.

Well, someone finally did.

Trump agreed to participate in the over half a century old tradition of the 60 Minutes interview featuring both campaigns, then he backed out.

Here is how 60 Minutes started their special program, “It's a 60 Minutes tradition, hearing from the presidential candidates, though tonight, only the Democratic ticket sat and answered our questions."

60 Minutes has a journalistic obligation to explain to viewers why only one of the two campaigns are on the show.

60 Minutes was completely honest with their viewers.

Scott Pelley said:

It’s been a tradition for more than half a century that the major party candidates for president sit down with 60 Minutes in October … this year, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump accepted our invitation. But unfortunately, last week, Trump canceled. The Trump campaign had told us that the interview would be this past Thursday at Mar-a-Lago. They also asked us whether we would meet 78-year-old Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania where he was grazed in an assassination attempt. We agreed. On September 9th, Trump's communications director Steven Cheung sent a text that read, ‘I’m working with our advance team to see logistically if Butler would work in addition to the sit down.’ Days later, Cheung called to say ‘the President said yes.’

Then, a week ago, Trump backed out.