Sunday, September 13, 2026

Lesley Stahl Goes After Trump the Old Fashioned Way, with Hidden Cameras, to Reveal How Criminals Are Getting Pardons from Trump for Big Bucks

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Lesley Stahl and her team really sock it to Trump tonight.

On “60 Minutes,” Stahl and her producers go the old fashioned route of Mike Wallace. They actually set up a sting to catch the people making millions off of offering access to Trump in order to obtain presidential pardons.

Trump denies it, but in the end these brokers are all working to get his attention. According to Stahl, 92% of Trump’s pardons have not gone through the Department of Justice. They’ve all ben conducted by criminals for criminals.

I’m actually surprised Stahl’s piece made it on air. It’s very damaging to Trump, who thinks he’s calling the shots now on CBS. But she nails it, even interviewing the subjects of her sting — a pair of jackasses who look they came from central casting.

So will Congress follow up? Will Democrats do anything?

Keep refreshing for the whole Stahl piece.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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