Donald Trump Slams 60 Minutes Interview Host, Calls Her ‘Terrible’
President Donald Trumphas reportedly criticized CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell more than a week after their 60 Minutes interview. He called the journalist “terrible” and dismissed her professional abilities during a radio appearance on Monday.
Donald Trump slams Norah O’Donnell after 60 Minutes interview
Salem News Channel host Hugh Hewitt referenced the controversial interview, telling Donald Trump he couldn’t believe Norah O’Donnell read the manifesto and suggesting producers “wanted you to walk off.” Hewitt asked whether the president considered leaving.
“No, because then you make it a bigger story, actually,” Trump replied, before criticizing O’Donnell again. “She’s terrible, I mean, she’s interviewed me before. She’s a regular person that gets paid a lot of money. Further adding, “She’s no different. I could get any woman off the street practically and they would do just as good of job as her. There’s nothing special.”
Trump added that he anticipated trouble the moment O’Donnell mentioned the document. “As soon as she said the word ‘manifesto,’ I said, ‘Here we go with the nonsense again,’ you know, this is a sick guy, a really sick guy, a deranged guy, and he writes stuff.”
For context, a 60 Minutes interview was conducted on April 25, hours after the shooting at the WHCD. O’Donnell questioned Trump about the manifesto of suspected gunman Cole Tomas Allen, who allegedly sent the document to family members before the attack.
She read from the manifesto, in which Allen wrote he was “no longer willing to permit a… traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” Trump immediately charged. “I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people. Horrible people,” the president said. Even tho O’Donnell noted that it’s the gunman’s words, he continued to say she’s a “disgrace.”
Trump reportedly has a documented history of targeting female journalists with personal attacks. He has previously clashed with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman, ABC News reporter Rachel Scott, and more.
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