Here Are Some Big Moments From Trump's CBS Interview That Didn't Make the Air

We saw in 2024 how CBS News deceptively edited a Kamala Harris interview right before the presidential election, a sleazy maneuver that cost them over $16 million after Donald Trump sued them.

But not all edits are sleazy – sometimes, there is just too much that was said to fit into one news broadcast. When you interview President Trump, you’re almost always going to end up with more footage than you can use.

As we covered, there were numerous big moments on the 60 Minutes interview Sunday night with the president, where he touted his accomplishments and knocked down every one of biased host Norah O’Donnell’s attempts to accuse him of “political retribution" – “You know who got indicted? The man you're looking at,” he reminded her – and her refusal to admit the D.C. was now safer after his crime crackdown.

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There were some other moments, too, however, and luckily, this time we’ve got both the transcript and the footage of the additional minutes.

He battled O’Donnell on crypto:

O'Donnell repeatedly prodded Trump over his decision to pardon cryptocurrency billionaire Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance also known as CZ. The CBS anchor grilled the president about the appearance of impropriety as the pardon coincided with Binance's involvement in a $2 billion purchase of stablecoins from World Liberty Financial, a crypto platform run by Trump's sons Don Jr. and Eric.
'Norah, I can only tell you this. My sons are into it,' Trump replied. 'I'm glad they are, because it's probably a great industry, crypto. I think it's good. You know, they're running a business, they're not in government.'

He said his main concern was keeping America number one in crypto and not letting China outdo us in that sphere:

🚨 Just In: President Donald Trump talked about Crypto in his interview with 60 Minutes last weekend but NO ONE POSTED ABOUT THIS

Once again, he showed that he has been doing everything to make America 🇺🇸 the Crypto Capital of the World pic.twitter.com/QqC1RTH9Pe
— PHO Crypto 🍲 (@0xPHOCryptoBros) November 3, 2025

Speaking of crypto, I was lucky enough to catch Trump’s son Eric speaking at the Reagan Library in late October, and he said his family and the Trump Organization were forced to turn to crypto because so many big banks deplatformed them and shut down their accounts with little to no notice. When you think about what the left did to try to cripple Trump and his businesses, it makes you sick to your stomach.

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O’ Donnell kept looking for the gotcha moment:

O'Donnell responded, 'So not concerned about the appearance of corruption?'
Trump then gave the CBS anchor a stern warning which appeared neither in the 28-minute episode that aired on TV, nor an hour-long extended version uploaded to YouTube.
'I'd rather not have you ask the question,' Trump fired back. 'But I let you ask it. You just came to me and you said, "Can I ask another question?" And I said, yeah. This is the question ... I don't mind. Did I let you do it? I coulda walked away. I didn't have to answer this question. I'm proud to answer the question. You know why? We've taken crypto.'

Meanwhile, another nugget was when the president gloated about his victorious October 2024 settlement with the outlet over the deceptive Kamala video. He also took the moment to praise new CBS News head Bari Weiss, who is trying to steer CBS News in a less-biased direction:

Trump on Bari Weiss: "60 Minutes paid me a lot money. And you don't have to put this on, because I don't wanna embarrass you...You have a great new leader, frankly, cause the young woman that's leading your whole enterprise is a great—from what I know, I don't know her but I hear… pic.twitter.com/aBx5T0V1oH
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) November 3, 2025

You've got to have legit news, he said:

“And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you… I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who’s the young woman that’s leading your whole enterprise is a great– from what I know,” Trump said, per Mediaite, referring to CBS News’ new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

He continued talking about the settlement, adding, “60 Minutes was forced to pay me a lot of money because they took [Kamala Harris’] answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can’t have fake news. You’ve gotta have legit news.”

Trump also maintains that the 2020 presidential election was, shall we say, problematic:

Another unaired moment saw Trump continuing to claim the 2020 election was rigged. When answering a question about possibly running for office again in 2028, the President said, “I don’t wanna start talking about elections. It’s too early. One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged.”
He added, “And a lotta people say when it’s rigged you’re allowed to do it again. It was rigged. And it’s been caught. And they — and you see the same information that everybody else does. And it’s coming out now in spades. But with all of that, we have a great bench.”

Really, with this loquacious president, you’d need at least two full segments to get close to including everything he said. One thing is for sure: he’s never boring.

See the full extended remarks here:

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