CBS News star anchor and “60 Minutes” host Norah O’Donnell could be off the air and replaced by a surprise candidate.
If network execs listen to President Donald Trump.
President Trump doubled down on his recent attacks against O’Donnell after she asked him about the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooter’s manifesto.
“She’s terrible,” Trump said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” on Monday.
“I mean, she’s interviewed me. She’s a regular person that gets paid a lot of money. She’s just… she’s no different. I could get any woman off the street practically, and they would do just as good a job as her. There’s nothing special.”
🇺🇸 Trump went off on CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell:
“She’s terrible… There’s nothing special about her. I could get any woman off the street and they’d do just as good of a job.”
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Trump blasted O’Donnell during their interview last month after she read portions of suspect Cole Allen’s manifesto, which alluded to concerns over a rapist and a pedophile, and asked for his reaction.
“Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people,” Trump answered.
“Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”
“Do you think he was referring to you?” O’Donnell asked.
“I’m not a pedophile. 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, let’s say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, ‘You know, I’ll do this interview, and they’ll probably…’ I read the manifesto. You know, he’s a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things,” Trump said.
O’Donnell interrupted to argue that she was quoting the alleged gunman’s words, but Trump continued to call her “disgraceful.”
“You shouldn’t be reading that on ’60 Minutes.’ You’re a disgrace. But go ahead. Let’s finish the interview,” Trump said.
In response, a CBS News spokesperson referred to a previous statement the organization made in defense of O’Donnell’s questioning during the interview.
“This suspect is being charged with one count of trying to assassinate the President of the United States. It is a basic tenet of journalism to ask questions and seek the truth. It was our responsibility to ask the president about the latest evidence and what we had just learned after obtaining the manifesto a few hours before the interview,” the statement read.
However, during Monday’s interview with Trump, Hewitt accused O’Donnell of rehearsing the question to provoke the president to walk out of the interview.
Trump scoffed at the idea of walking out of the interview, which he did in 2020.
“The problem with walking off, it’s like it becomes the bigger story,” Trump said.