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5 things to know about the Trump, CBS feud 

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15.04.2025

President Trump's feud with CBS is reaching a fever pitch as his administration turns up the heat on the national broadcast network stemming from a "60 Minutes" interview it aired with former Vice President Kamala Harris before the presidential election last fall.

Here are five things to know about the Trump and CBS fight.

Trump is convinced CBS intentionally portrayed Harris positively before election

CBS ignited Trump’s fury with an interview it aired in October just weeks before the presidential election with the Democratic nominee.

The network said it invited Trump to sit for a similar interview, but he declined, citing what his campaign said was a long history of hostility by the Sunday evening news magazine program toward Trump and his policies.

After the Harris interview aired, Trump raised issue with an answer the then-vice president gave to a question about the war in Gaza that was not included in the full broadcast and instead published by the outlet online.

The president and his allies contended the network intentionally edited the interview to make Harris seem more coherent and cast her in a positive light, a decision they said amounted to “election interference.”

It is standard practice for news outlets to edit segments for length, clarity and news value, though the network did not explain why one version of Harris’s answer on Gaza appeared on air while a fuller version went only online.

The network eventually released a full transcript of the interview after an intense pressure campaign by Trump and his allies.

“The Interview was not doctored; and 60 Minutes did not hide any part of the Vice President’s answer to the question at issue,” a spokesperson for the network said at the time. “60 Minutes fairly presented the Interview to inform the viewing audience, and not to........

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