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    WATCH: CBS’s “60 Minutes” Host Under Fire after Absurd Claim About Hunter Biden Laptop

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    CBS’s “60 Minutes” has recently come under fire regarding a controversial interview it conducted with former President Donald Trump before the 2020 election in which reporter Lesley Stahl refused to acknowledge the infamous Hunter Biden laptop, claiming it could not be verified.  Trump has since refused to give another interview requested by the network, demanding an apology from the network for how the 2020 interview was conducted.

    A claim touted by Democrats leading up to the 2020 election was that the laptop was “Russian disinformation.”  Trump claimed Stahl’s refusal to report on Hunter’s laptop indicated that she bought into this theory.  CBS journalist Scott Pelley recently said after airing an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, “Trump said he needed an apology for his interview in 2020 Trump claims correspondent Leslie Stahl said in that interview that Hunter Biden’s controversial laptop came from Russia. She never said that.”

    However a clip from the interview has surfaced revealing that Stahl dismissed the authenticity of the laptop.  The former president claimed it was one of “the biggest scandals I’ve ever seen, and you don’t cover it, you want to talk about it.”  Stahl interjected, “Because it can’t be verified.”  Trump fired back, “Of course it can be verified.”

    Trump continued, “Excuse me, they found the laptop Leslie.”  Stahl doubled down, “It can’t be verified.” Trump said, “What can’t be verified? … Why do you say that? … even the family hasn’t… the family on the laptop, he’s gone into hiding for five days, he’s gone into hiding.”  While Leslie Stahl didn’t say verbatim that the laptop was Russian disinformation, she refused to acknowledge that it was real, implying that it could have been fake.

    Users on social media lashed out at the show, for refusing to acknowledge the denial of the infamous laptop.  “60 Minutes straight up claimed tonight that Lesley Stahl didn’t dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinfo in 2020. The only problem is that’s exactly what happened. Notice how they don’t say “we were wrong. The laptop was real.” Instead, they mock Trump for demanding an apology for lying,” conservative commentator Greg Price said.



    “@60Minutes? Did Leslie Stahl or @CBSNews ever apologize for the continued lies you perpetuated? You took ZERO responsibility in your role of spreading misinformation on the Hunter Biden laptop. Disgusting,” another person commented underneath the video. “60 Minutes gaslights the American public, despite Lesley Stahl being on camera denying the existence of Hunter’s laptop, essentially calling Trump a liar in this shameful interview. He was of course proven right. As usual…” another said.
    Trump campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung also sounded off on 60 Minutes, “Fake News. 60 Minutes begged for an interview, even after they were caught lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop back in 2020. There were initial discussions, but nothing was ever scheduled or locked in. They also insisted on doing live fact checking, which is unprecedented.”
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    Former President Trump’s request for an apology from the show read,  “Well, right now, they came to me and would like me to do an interview, but first I want to get an apology, because the last time I did an interview with them, if you remember, they challenged me on the computer.  They said the ‘laptop from hell’ was from Russia, and I said it wasn’t from Russia. If you remember Lesley Stahl, we got into a little bit of an argument on the camera, talking about that and other things. And you know, they really owed me an apology.”
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