{"id":68189,"date":"2025-11-03T13:07:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68189"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:22:28","slug":"fact-check-serial-liar-trump-unleashed-a-fury-of-flagrant-falsehoods-aka-lies-on-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68189","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Serial Liar Trump Unleashed a Fury of Flagrant Falsehoods (aka Lies) on 60 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a rare occurrence when Donald Trump allows himself to be interviewed by anyone other than one of the slobbering sycophants who populate the MAGA media outlets like Fox News or Newsmax or One America News Network. It is evidence of his innate cowardice, insecurity, and fear of being asked a question that is more difficult than <em>&#8220;How did you become so handsome and brilliant?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=FACT CHECK: Serial Liar Trump Unleashed a Fury of Flagrant Falsehoods (aka Lies) on 60 Minutes%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68189\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=FACT CHECK: Serial Liar Trump Unleashed a Fury of Flagrant Falsehoods (aka Lies) on 60 Minutes%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68189\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/Trump-lies-deceive.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Lies\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43509\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which may have sparked some curiosity when it was announced that Trump would be interviewed on <em>&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;<\/em> by Norah O&#8217;Donnell. Although it shouldn&#8217;t have for reasons that will be dealt with in more detail below. On the surface, it seemed peculiar that Trump would appear on the network and program that he recently sued for alleged <em>&#8220;election interference.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66618\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount Caves to Trump\u2019s Extortion, Disgraces CBS, Pays a $16M Bribe to Settle a Bogus Lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>True to form, Trump delivered a performance that was rife with deflection and dishonesty. When he wasn&#8217;t making up fantastical diversions from reality, he was swerving off into unrelated responses to questions he either didn&#8217;t know the answers to, or was too afraid to reply with anything resembling the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, CNN&#8217;s designated fact-checker, Daniel Dale, was on the job. He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ddale8\/status\/1985383362966548709\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a><\/strong> a pretty comprehensive summation of the many lies that Trump tried to pass off as coherent replies to inquiries on some serious matters. What follows are some of the more <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/03\/politics\/fact-check-trump-cbs-interview\" target=\"_blank\">egregiously truthless Trumpisms<\/a><\/strong> itemized in Dale&#8217;s article&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true grocery prices &#8220;are down&#8221;; Trump told this lie even after O\u2019Donnell told him they&#8217;re up<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true \u201c$17 trillion\u201d is being invested in the US \u201cright now&#8221; (this fictional figure is nearly double the White House&#8217;s own wildly inflated &#8220;announcements&#8221; figure)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act &#8220;28 times&#8221; (Ulysses S. Grant has the record because he invoked it on six occasions)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true Trump has ended &#8220;eight wars&#8221; (among other issues, his list includes two situations that weren&#8217;t wars at all<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true foreign countries pay his tariffs (US importers make the payments and often pass on costs to consumers)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true Trump inherited the worst inflation of all time (it was 3% the month he took office, same as now, and even the 9.1% Biden-era peak in 2022 was not close to the all-time record)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true the 2020 election was &#8220;rigged and stolen&#8221; (his usual lie) <\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true the Presidential Records Act says he was allowed to have classified documents at his home post-presidency (it says all presidential records are to be in government custody the moment a president leaves office)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true Trump never instructed the Justice Department to go after Comey and James (he explicitly pressured the head of the department to do so in a social media post we all saw)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true Democrats are trying to give $1.5 trillion to illegal immigrants in the shutdown battle<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not true foreign leaders have emptied their prisons to somehow insert criminals into the US as migrants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s ironic that Trump is lying so profusely during a <em>&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;<\/em> interview. He sued CBS over an interview they conducted with Kamala Harris that he said was election interference and <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63246\" target=\"_blank\">probably illegal<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em> CBS settled the lawsuit without apologizing or conceding any wrongdoing. But they still shelled out $16 million dollars for his presidential library, if there is ever is one.<\/p>\n<p>That settlement was a more of a bribe that CBS was paying to insure that mob boss Trump wouldn&#8217;t block the merger that CBS&#8217; parent corporation, Paramount, was trying to complete with Skydance Media, a company run by Trump pals, Larry and David Ellison. There was no legal reason to settle. The case had no merit whatsoever. Trump was alleging that <em>&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;<\/em> had improperly edited the interview to favor Harris politically. They didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Trump acknowledged that he knew that CBS would be editing his interview. Which they did. It was whittled down from 90 minutes to about 28, in much the same way that he complained about for the Harris interview. And while it was in progress, Trump revealed that, not only was he aware of the editing, but he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/03\/trump-cbs-60-minutes-interview-edited\" target=\"_blank\">gave CBS permission to edit out specific parts<\/a><\/strong> that exposed the bias of the network&#8217;s new owners in his favor&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You don\u2019t have to put this on, because I don\u2019t want to embarrass you. [&#8230;] I think you have a great new leader, frankly, who\u2019s &#8211; the young woman [Bari Weiss] that\u2019s leading your whole enterprise is a great, from what I know &#8211; I don\u2019t know her, but I hear she\u2019s a great person. But \u201960 Minutes\u2019 was forced to pay me a lot of money because they took her [Kamala Harris] answer out that was so bad it was election-changing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Trump sued CBS for what they did with the Harris interview, which is also precisely what he was now conspiring with CBS to do for his own interview. And the rest of the time he was lying. Of course, most of America &#8211; and the world &#8211; is already aware that Trump lies virtually every time he opens his mouth. But the reputation of CBS is now pretty much shot to hell. And unless the honest journalists who haven&#8217;t quit yet rise up to defend the free press, CBS can take their place in the MAGA Media Hall of Shame.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66365\" target=\"_blank\">Snowflake Trump Whines He Suffered \u2018Mental Anguish\u2019 From the 60 Minutes Interview of Kamala Harris<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64117\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Free Press? His FBI Flunky Kash Patel Threatens to \u2018Come After the People in the Media\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66829\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s FCC Chair Says that CBS News Will Have to Employ a \u2018Bias Monitor\u2019 to Police Their Reporting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a rare occurrence when Donald Trump allows himself to be interviewed by anyone other than one of the slobbering sycophants who populate the MAGA media outlets like Fox News or Newsmax or One America News Network. It is evidence of his innate cowardice, insecurity, and fear of being asked a question that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,4,8],"tags":[243,65,42,1406,554,1357,1509,1133],"class_list":["post-68189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-news","category-propaganda","tag-60-minutes","tag-cbs","tag-cnn","tag-daniel-dale","tag-donald-trump","tag-kamala-harris","tag-media-bias","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/Trump-lies-deceive.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-hJP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66829,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66829","url_meta":{"origin":68189,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s FCC Chair Says that CBS News Will Have to Employ a &#8216;Bias Monitor&#8217; to Police Their Reporting","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/26\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Just in case there still people who are not convinced that Donald Trump is plotting to replace America's democracy with a totalitarian dictatorship, he has dispatched his chairman of the FCC (Fascist Communications Commission) to Newsmax to announce his latest anti-free-press initiative. 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