Chuck Schumer Pitches Complaint Against 60 Minutes for Editing ‘Unhinged’ Trump Interview

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer mocked President Donald Trump by floating a FCC complaint against CBS’ 60 Minutes for “editing” the president’s “unhinged” sit-down on Sunday.

Trump taped more than 70 minutes with journalist Norah O’Donnell at Mar-a-Lago for Sunday’s broadcast, but viewers only saw roughly 30 minutes of that footage. CBS has posted both the broadcast version and the full interview on YouTube, as well as a full transcript of the interview.

It was Trump’s first appearance on the program since CBS settled with him after he accused the network of “deceptively editing” its October 2024 interview with his then-presidential rival Kamala Harris.

Early Monday, Schumer leapt at the chance to jab at Trump on the edits, taking to X to mockingly threaten that he’d use the “exact same language” as the president’s Harris suit.

Despite settling with the president, CBS insisted its Harris edit was not “doctored or deceitful,” corporate parent Paramount paid the former president $16 million, a check that landed just before regulators approved Paramount’s merger with Skydance Media.

Throughout his Sunday interview with O’Donnell, Trump himself openly gloated that the network had settled with him on the Harris lawsuit and winked openly throughout by approving certain comments be edited out while he answered questions.

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