Last night, CBS's "60 Minutes" aired it's presidential interview with Kamala Harris.
And now, the station has just announced that former president Donald Trump has backed out. Here is the statement:
It's been a tradition for more than half a century that the major party candidates for President sit down with "60 Minutes" in October. In 1968, it was Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. This year, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump accepted our invitation.
But, unfortunately, last week, Trump canceled. The campaign offered shifting explanations.
First, it complained we would fact-check the interview. We fact-check every story. Later, trump said he needed an apology for his interview in 2020.
Trump claims correspondent Lesley Stahl said in that iInterview that Hunter Biden's controversial laptop came from Russia.
She never said that.
Trump has said his opponent doesn't do interviews because she can't handle them. He had previously declined another debate with Harris. So tonight may have been the largest audience for the candidates between now and election day.
Is Donald Trump really terrified now to be interviewed by serious journalists, people who know how to ask questions and get to the "meat?"