The deleted fragments of the interview with Trump

The CBS program 60 Minutes had the opportunity to interview Donald Trump the morning after the attack during the correspondents' dinner. The program's journalist, Norah O'Donnell, who was also present at the event, limited herself to asking him about the facts and delving into the actions of the security forces. The interview was broadcast on Sunday in a reduced format, only twelve minutes long, and covered the most essential informative aspects of Trump's responses. However, the network has posted the full forty-minute interview on YouTube. It is increasingly important to access Trump's complete statements to verify the evolution of his discourse. When O'Donnell asks him if he believes what happened the previous night will change his relationship with the press, Trump goes off on a tangent, recalling disagreements with Democrats on immigration policies. He also says that in sports, he wants women to compete with women and for men not to be part of women's competitions. O'Donnell, with extreme seriousness and discretion, reminds Trump that she is asking him about journalists and not about the opposition, but he seems to have confused them. In such a traumatic context as a shooting, all these remarks are superfluous. When the journalist points out security deficiencies, Trump praises the physical strength and great attractiveness of the officers. He also jokes about the speed of Cole Allen, the assailant, saying that the National Football League should sign him. These are details that may not have a direct bearing on the strictly informative facts, but they are essential for portraying the president in a grave context.There is a very impactful moment in the interview. O’Donnell reads to Trump part of the statement the assailant sent to his family: “I am not willing to allow a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to stain my hands with his crimes”. Trump gets serious and scolds O’Donnell: “I knew you would read it because you are a horrible person. I am not a rapist. I have not raped anyone”. O’Donnell, without flinching and with the same coldness she had shown until that moment, without changing her tone of voice, replies: “Oh! Do you think he was referring to you?” Trump, without answering her, continues to say that he is neither a pedophile nor is he exonerated from any relationship with Epstein. He tells the journalist that she should be ashamed to reproduce those statements, that she should not have read them. “You are a disgrace”, he tells her more than once. “These are the assailant’s words”, replies O’Donnell, who, nevertheless, manages to steer the conversation back and the interview continues for twenty more minutes.At the end of the interview, Trump commits to reconvening the correspondents' dinner within thirty days. It is a meeting of the government and the press that celebrates the First Amendment of the constitution and freedom of the press. It is, in fact, a recognition of the respective roles in democracy. What causes perplexity is that the press continues to want to participate in this type of farce with Trump in the White House.