Trump pulls out of ‘60 Minutes’ interview, four years after storming out of previous episode

Donald Trump pulled out of an election season interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes that was set to air Monday, with the Republican’s camp citing fact-checking provisions and a long-running dispute over the Hunter Biden laptop story as reasons why.

60 Minutes announced the cancellation over X/Twitter.

“After initially accepting 60 Minutes’ request for an interview with Scott Pelley, former President Trump’s campaign has decided not to participate,” the show wrote in a statement. “Pelley will address this Monday evening.”

The Trump campaign denied he was ever set to appear on the program, where Harris will also sit for an in-depth interview.

“There were initial discussions, but nothing was ever scheduled or locked in,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung wrote on X. “They also insisted on doing live fact checking, which is unprecedented.”

The Trump campaign official also dismissed the program as a “relic of the past, unable to keep up with the times and changing media environment, instead turning into liberal, biased propaganda.”

Trump, for his part, said he was skipping out on the 60 Minutes interview over the Hunter Biden laptop story, in which Republicans seized on damaging materials about Joe Biden’s son purportedly found on a laptop Hunter Biden supposedly left at a Delaware computer store. The FBI concluded the laptop in question belonged to Biden, who said the material linked to the computer may have been hacked or part of a Russian intel operation.

Former intelligence officials claimed the information on the computer, which Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani gave to the New York Post, was part of a Russia intelligence operation, though doubts have grown over whether this was the case in recent years.

The revelations emerged in