White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sternly warned a CBS crew last week that Trump would sue the network if it did not air a recent interview in its entirety, unedited.
“We’ll sue your ass off,” she told them.
While President Trump was visiting Detroit, Michigan, to tour a Ford plant and deliver remarks to the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday, he sat for a 13-minute interview with CBS anchor Tony Doukoupil, during which the President trolled Doukoupil, telling him he’d be out of a job if Kamala Harris won in 2024.
“If she got in, you probably wouldn’t have a job right now,” Trump said while explaining that he inherited a dead country and turned it into the “hottest country in the world.” “You wouldn’t have this job, you wouldn’t have this job, certainly whatever the hell they’re paying you,” he continued. “We would be Venezuela on steroids.”
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After the interview, Leavitt reportedly approached the CBS team and Doukoupil with a message from the President.
“He said, ‘Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full,’” Leavitt told them, to which Doukoupil replied, “Yeah, we’re doing it, yeah,” according to a side conversation caught on tape and obtained by the New York Times.
Leavitt fired back, “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off,’” which was apparently not taken too seriously at first, with some members of the team thinking it was a joke.
Executive producer of CBS Evening News, Kim Harvey, responded to the threat, telling Leavitt, “Oh, great, OK!” and Doukoupil chimed in, humorously saying, “He always says that!”
But according to the report, Leavitt did not laugh.
CBS later said in a statement, “The moment we booked this interview, we made the independent decision to air it unedited and in its entirety.”
Leavitt told the New York Times, “The American people deserve to watch President Trump’s full interviews, unedited, no cuts. And guess what? The interview ran in full.”
Trump has sued several media organizations since taking office, including CBS’s former parent company, Paramount, last year, over its edited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. After the suit was settled, Paramount was sold to David Ellison’s Skydance.
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