60 Minutes edits out Trumps bragging about $16M settlement from CBS: Paid me a lotta money

President Trump bragged about the $16 million lawsuit settlement paid out by CBS News’ parent company during his interview with “60 Minutes” — in comments that were edited out of the TV broadcast on Sunday night.“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,” the president told “60 Minutes” reporter Norah O’Donnell during their Mar-a-Lago sitdown.The comment did not make it into the final cut of the CBS broadcast — though it was included in the extended “Overtime” version that the Tiffany Network posts on its YouTube channel.CBS News also posted a full transcript of the interview.Trump also praised the new management at CBS News, particularly Bari Weiss, the co-founder of The Free Press newsletter who was named by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison as editor-in-chief of the news division that oversees “60 Minutes” — another remark which didn’t make air.“[Y]ou have a great — 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,” the president said in reference to the avowedly pro-Israel and anti-woke Weiss.“I don’t know her, but I hear she’s a great person,” Trump said of Weiss.“But ’60 Minutes’ was forced to pay me — a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election.”Trump referred to the October 2024 interview with his Democratic opponent, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, which he claimed was deceptively edited to make her sound more succinct and concise.“And they put a new answer in.

And they paid me a lot of money for that,” Trump said in the unaired remarks to O’Donnell.“You can’t have fake news.You’ve gotta have legit news.

And I think that it’s happening.”The Harris interview prompted Trump to file a lawsuit against CBS and its then-parent co...