On Monday, 60 Minutes made a big deal that Donald Trump was the first presidential candidate not to appear on their show in the month before an election in 50 years. They sure think a lot of themselves and that tradition.
Nowhere in this lament does it apologize for the last time Trump did an interview with 60 Minutes. He walked out on Leslie Stahl after she insisted that the Hunter Biden laptop story was a fake and that there was no proof that his campaign had been spied on. The FBI has proven both things to be true. The FBI used the laptop as evidence in its case against Hunter Biden and the FBI’s Dunham Special Counsel investigation showed that there was in fact proof that the Clinton campaign had spied on the Trump campaign in 2016. Stahl adamantly insisted both things were crazy conspiracies.
Shouldn’t 60 Minutes apologize not only to Trump but the viewers? Viewers (like me) believed that they had somehow investigated this and came up empty but had they actually investigated it, they would have found a lot there.
Kamala Harris sat for an interview and it was surprisingly tough. Bill Whitaker pushed her on her failed border policies and expensive economic plans more than one might think. He asked why she had flipped on so many issues and she said this: “No one should be able to take for granted that they can just declare themselves a candidate and automatically receive support.”
Isn’t that exactly what happened when the Democrats threw out Joe Biden’s primary win and put her in that position? Whitaker did ask her about hop-skipping the primaries. Color me surprised. Is he the last true journalist in the mainstream media?
