Donald Trump erupted during his 60 Minutes interview with CBS presenter Norah O’Donnell after she quoted the suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter’s manifesto
Donald Trump has launched a blistering attack on CBS presenter Norah O’Donnell after she quoted excerpts from the suspected gunman’s manifesto during his 60 Minutes interview about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting.
Trump tore into O’Donnell’s line of questioning in a manner typical of his relentless assaults on the media, which he has consistently labelled a “disgrace”. When she read from the document allegedly sent by Cole Tomas Allen shortly before the attack – in which Allen made reference to a “peadophile, rapist, and traitor” – Trump erupted, reports the Mirror.
“I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because … you’re horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that.
“I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody. I’m not a paedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m not a paedophile. You read that crap from some sick person? I got associated with all – stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated.
“Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, lets say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, ‘You know, I’ll do this interview and they’ll probably … read the manifesto’. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things.”
Allen described his targets as “administration officials: prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest” – though he appeared to leave FBI Director Kash Patel off his list.
In an apparent reference to Trump, Allen wrote: “I am no longer willing to permit a paedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
Investigators also uncovered anti-Trump and anti-Christian material on Allen’s social media profiles.
In content reportedly handed to authorities by his brother, Allen allegedly wrote: “Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial.
“I’m not a schoolkid blown up, or a child starved, or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”
Trump revealed that the First Lady had been visibly shaken by the shooting. When asked whether she had been frightened, he said: “Well, I don’t wanna say, and people don’t like having it said that they were scared. But certainly, I mean, who wouldn’t be when you have a situation like that?
“By that time I think she realized ahead of time that that was more of a bullet than it was a tray. And she was … I looked at her face just a little while ago before I came. I saw the scene. They played it for me and, you know, pretty good closeup. And she looked very upset about what just took place, you know? Why not?”
Trump went on to praise Melania for the way she had handled the situation, describing her as both strong and composed.
“She handled it great. I mean, she was, she’s very strong, smart. She got it. She knew what was happening. She listened. I did too, by the way.”
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