29 Oct 2018 2:09 pm
Donald Trump Told 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl Off-Camera the Real Reason He Attacks the Press
Lesley Stahl, the veteran CBS 60 Minutes correspondent, is freshly dishing on her huge scoop in 2016—landing the first post-election interview with then-President-elect Donald Trump after the 2016 election.
Before the interview took place, Stahl and her boss—without cameras in tow—met with Trump in his office at Trump Tower, where, Stahl says, he launched a rant attacking the press.
“I said, ‘You know, that is getting tired. Why are you doing this?” Stahl recalled at a Deadline Club journalism awards dinner Monday night in New York City.
“And he said, ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you,'” Stahl recalled.
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