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US President Trump defended his administration’s ICE raids and argued “they haven’t gone acold enough” successful a “60 Minutes” interrogation that aired Sunday night, his archetypal sit-down with CBS News since suing the network.
The interrogation was filmed Friday astatine his Mar-a-Lago property successful Florida. He dismissed disapproval of his migration crackdown and blamed “the wide judges that were enactment successful by Biden and by Obama” for holding backmost the raids, according to a preview of the programme. CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell said “Americans person been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, teardrop state being utilized successful a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows," and asked, “You’re good with those tactics?”
Trump replied, "I deliberation they haven't gone acold capable due to the fact that we've been held backmost by the wide judges that were enactment successful by Biden and by Obama," and added, “Yeah, due to the fact that you person to get the radical out.” Trump besides weighed successful connected the New York mayoral race, targeting “communist” front-runner Zohran Mamdani. “He’s acold worse than a socialist,” the president said. O’Donnell asked, “Some radical person described him arsenic a left-wing mentation of you … charismatic, breaking the aged rules. What bash you deliberation astir that?” Trump quipped “Well, I deliberation I’m a overmuch better-looking idiosyncratic than him, right?” The “60 Minutes” interrogation comes weeks aft Bari Weiss, a erstwhile sentiment exertion for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times who founded the Free Press, became editor-in-chief of CBS News. Trump sued CBS genitor institution Paramount implicit a 2024 “60 Minutes” conception featuring then-vice president Kamala Harris.
