Bari Weiss’s 60 Minutes edited its latest interview with Donald Trump to make the octogenarian’s responses appear much more sane than they actually were.

During one exchange between Trump and host Ross Douthat on the topic of Ukraine, the staff at 60 Minutes decided to trim several sections of Trump’s response that included false claims or total fabrications.

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    I mean 60 min was literal disinformation. Just typical liberal warmongering. Anyone listening to actual analysts would tell you that the US empire wants to get out of the Ukraine war and it’s not just Trump. And they started by dumping the cost of the war on Europe. If Europe is this stupid, let the fuckwits pay for it.

    That’s what Trump is saying in that first cut segment. Or trying to say lol.

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    This is a good for the Brits and the BBC case I guess? CBS edits his responses but he doesn’t sue them for 10 Billion?

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    ‘The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn’t spell “precipice” if his life depended on it.’

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      No. No they don’t. The problem is his followers will see stupidity and dementia as prophecy, his lies as fact that the establishment has been hiding. No bueno.

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      Exactly my first thoughts. Instead of the wow the head of state is insane spin they try to make him seem normal??? That’s not ok

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    When 60 Minutes edited Kamala Harris’s interview to make her look good, Trump sued them for $16 million. I’m sure he’ll apply the same standard here.

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      I thought they didn’t even do it to make her look good, but it was to fit around commercial breaks or something and they still aired what she said?

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        Correct, it was a totally meritless lawsuit that Paramount (already with Skydance in the driver’s seat, pre-merger close) settled with a nice big fat bribe.

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      He initially sued them for $10 billion, but raised it to $20 billion later for damages. Paramount settled for $16 million.

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      the part where he was asked about personally making $3B since re-elected and Trump responds, “didn’t we all?”.

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      That interviewer is a conservative nutjob. Read anything he’s written for the New York Times. We’re just so used to seeing Fox and CNN-level interviewing that it felt like a revelation.

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        I don’t think you can call anyone actually holding Trump’s feet to the fire a “conservative nutjob”. Those are the Sticker Mule guys writing rap songs about sucking his dick.

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          No, he really is a conservative nut job. He just doesn’t like trump because he’s incompetent, not because they aren’t ideologically aligned.

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        But he’s had various interviews where he gets interesting results. But yeah, he’s strange.

        Check out his interview of Peter Thiel.

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      lmao I go to watch it, and all the “suggested videos” are all about the interview, and the election, except for John Oliver. Good ol’ autistic Oliver talkin’ bout Trains. god lov’em

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        An old video, too. YouTube’s third suggested video is usually the weakest suggestion. I just watched something about the housing market and my third suggestion is a product announcement video about some AI agent auditing software or something.

        How did you get Snipping Tool to appear in the screenshot? Is this a new “improvement” since I last used Windows? I don’t remember ever seeing that before.

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          You click the snip notification when it pops up following the snip and it lets you at markups, been like that for like a decade at least.

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            You click the notification to markup the screenshot, but why is the Snipping Tool icon half visible in the taskbar of the screenshot itself? I’m sure it used to be that either you pressed the key to take a screenshot and it took the screenshot before Snipping Tool appeared or you opened Snipping Tool and then took the screenshot after it had appeared.

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    the staff at 60 Minutes decided to trim several sections of Trump’s response that included false claims or total fabrications.

    So a 30-second interview that was just questions and no responses?

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    What someone should do is take his statements, then next week repeat them to him as something that came from Biden, and watch as he explodes and calls Biden corrupt, a terrorist, etc.

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      In the parts of the interview they showed on last night’s Daily Show, the interviewer actually brought up some of Trump’s family’s business dealings and said, if Biden’s family did it you’d call it corrupt, how is this different? Apparently all Trump had was “I didn’t know about it.”

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    I was just happy to see an interviewer push Trump on harder questions. It’s interesting that he didn’t storm out like a toddler waiting to change his diaper.

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    “There’s still a war going on. What’s the biggest obstacle to peace?” asked Douthat.

    “It was the hatred between [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskiy and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin,” Trump said in the version of the program that aired Sunday.

    But much more was left on the cutting room floor, according to an unedited version published Decoding Fox News founder Juliet Jeske. 

    “I believe that we’re very close to making a deal,” Trump said. “And I think it—two things, if I were president, because as you know, well you’re not going to admit it, it was rigged. That’s why I did it a third time. If I was president that war would have never started.”

    During another portion of the interview, 60 Minutes cut Trump’s answer when he attempted to puff himself up as tough on Russia and soft on Ukraine: “Look what I did to them as an example. I gave them the anti-tank busters, right?”

    “I’ve given them, in fact there’s an old statement, that [Barack] Obama gave them sheets, and I gave them anti-tank busters, okay? That’s what I gave them,” Trump said.

    “But now it’s Europe supplying weapons, not us?” asked Douthat.

    “No, it’s us. We’re supplying the weapons, Europe is paying for them,” Trump answered. “Here’s the difference: [Joe] Biden gave them $350 billion worth of cash and weapons. I gave them nothing.”

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      What’s wrong with that part?

      During another portion of the interview, 60 Minutes cut Trump’s answer when he attempted to puff himself up as tough on Russia and soft on Ukraine: “Look what I did to them as an example. I gave them the anti-tank busters, right?”

      https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine/story?id=65989898

      The Trump administration first approved the sale of Javelins to Ukraine in December 2017 – a step that former President Barack Obama never took and that Trump allies have pointed to as a sign of Trump’s toughness on Russia.

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        Trump allies have pointed to as a sign of Trump’s toughness on Russia.

        “Here’s the difference: [Joe] Biden gave them $350 billion worth of cash and weapons. I gave them nothing.”

        https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/donald-trump-is-playing-with-fire-the-pentagon-is-now-holding-back-patriot-missiles-ukraine-is-desperate-for-as-leverage/

        He’s fucked Ukraine by withholding arms and money, he’s said russia bombing kindergartens is “fine”, and he wants to ‘end the war’ by giving his daddy Putin everything he wants.

        Trump sold 39 million of javelins eight years ago and is now actively undermining their defense, stopping intel, slowing starlink, allowing civilian deaths and other war crimes to happen every single day. And did they even say Thank You?!?!?

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          As he said:

          “No, it’s us. We’re supplying the weapons, Europe is paying for them,”

          He is tough on Russia and Europe.

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            Tough on Russia by removing sanctions? By taking Putin’s side over our own intelligence agency? By constantly saying what a strong leader Putin is?

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              The US have to split China and Russia to be able to contain China. If the US can win Russia over, their war with China and Russia will be less bloody for them because then it’s only China. So they don’t burn all bridges. Also, less weapons to sell to Europe if the war is over.

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                  It’s very unlikely that Russia could decide the election with Facebook manipulation from the outside while the US could change the algorithm from inside.

                  Maybe I look twisted because your perception has been warped.

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                So how is he tough on Russia again?

                There’s no eminent conflict with Russia because Putin is pulling the strings with Trump, and even should we get a non-comprimised President and Congress in the near future, Russia is crushed financially and militarily.

                China is a whole other problem, and certainly not one Trump has a grip on or even a strategy for.

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                  There’s no eminent conflict with Russia because Putin is pulling the strings with Trump

                  Do you think that Biden or Harris would have started a direct war with Russia?

                  China is a whole other problem

                  It is related. As long as China can rely on Russia, the US cannot isolate China with a naval blockade.

                  certainly not one Trump has a grip on or even a strategy for.

                  Trump is the strategy.

                  China grows faster than the US. They just have to wait to dominate the world. Which forces the US to interrupt them. Could they do it as a Democracy?

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            “As he said…”

            While referring to Trump of all people in the comments of an article about how they cut out him saying a bunch of lies.

            wtf man?

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              The US are delivering weapons and Europe is paying for them. There is no doubt about it. The article is saying that Trump is lying but the parts that were mentioned are true.

              This is a 1984 double plus good situation. Among lies and disinformation, people don’t believe a fact about Trump that is true. It’s his fault and he deserves it, but society is lost if the majority has lost count and doesn’t understand what is happening.