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Trump Lies and Obfuscates Through “60 Minutes” Interview with Little Information But He Hopes — Naively — He’s Not Going to Hell (Video)

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CBS is where the good times are this fall.

New “60 Minutes” correspondent Ross Douthat, an outspoken conservative, interviewed Donald Trump on the show last night for two segments.

Douthat’s results were mixed, as you can see below. He let Trump filibuster endlessly and evade most questions.

He did find out that Trump thinks — naively — he’ll go not to hell.

Trump made a couple of mild concessions. One was that his immigration policy had gone too far, but not because it separated families or destroyed innocent people’s lives. It’s because wealthy people are angry their workers are gone. But Douthat didn’t actually ask about that part of it.

CBS News went light on Trump in the end, and let him get away with a number of lies. A lot of them were about his profiting off the White House. There was no discussion of wreckage of Washington, DC but they did discuss UFOs, which was utterly ridiculous.

Douthat gets a C for his efforts. CBS gets a D. Trump gets an A for once again managing to say nothing.

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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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