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Bulwark Takes

We Watched Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview. It’s Nuts.

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Will Saletan recap Donald Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview, both the edited television version and full transcript, discussing the shutdown, tariffs, inflation, Vladimir Putin, concepts of plans, and of course, Joe Biden. 

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein. Managing out of the Bullwark. I'm here, Will Salton,

0:04.0

and he has decided to do something very gracious. You watched Donald Trump's 60 Minutes interview.

0:09.7

I did, too. It took place tonight, Sunday, November 2nd.

0:14.0

Will, I will say, before we get into the substance of this interview, I will say there's some history about 60 minutes in Donald Trump.

0:21.9

My understanding is that 60 Min is legally obligated under both the Constitution and the

0:26.8

Geneva Conventions to air the entire footage of the interview, not make a single edit or cut.

0:34.2

And if they do, they are obligated to pay whoever sues them $15 million in restitution.

0:41.0

Is that your understanding of the law as it stands?

0:43.7

Yeah, that's definitely the law.

0:45.2

And of course, Donald Trump, the subject of the interview, is allowed to put, literally put words in the mouths of the Senate majority leader, put a mustache in a sombrero on the House

0:54.8

minority leader.

0:55.6

Look, guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it.

0:58.6

Nobody likes Democrats anymore.

1:00.4

We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bullshit.

1:04.1

All of that is totally legal at the same time.

1:07.0

Okay, I'm referring obviously to the fact that Donald Trump sued Paramount over the 60 minutes interview that they did with Kamala Harris right before the election.

1:15.3

They had made a cut, a normal editing cut that happens all the time in her interview.

1:20.6

He said it was an in-kind contribution to her campaign.

1:22.9

It was ridiculous.

1:24.2

Paramount, however, happened to have a fair amount of business before the government,

1:27.8

including a merger with Skydance that they wanted to complete. And so they paid the fine.

1:32.2

Then they bought the free press. Now here we are with Trump one year later from a roughly

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