If you watched the 60 Minutes Trump interview last night, here’s the part you didn’t see, because CBS edited it out. Per the Daily Beast this morning: NORAH O'DONNELL: Do I have the opportunity to ask you two more questions? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: If you want, if it helps- NORAH O'DONNELL: Okay. Okay. Two more questions- PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That means they'll treat me more fairly if I do- I want to get- It's very nice, yeah. Now is good. Okay. Uh, oh. These might be the ones I didn't want. I don't know. Okay, go ahead. NORAH O'DONNELL: Is everybody ready? NORAH O'DONNELL: This is a question about pardons. The Trump family is now perhaps more associated with cryptocurrency than real estate. You and your son- your sons, Don Jr. and Eric, have formed World Liberty Financial with the Witkoff family. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Right. NORAH O'DONNELL: Helping to make your family millions of dollars. It's in that context that I do wanna ask you about crypto's richest man, a billionaire known as C.Z. He pled guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money laundering laws. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Right. Some of Trump’s answer went to air in the truncated version of the interview, including where the president admitted he had “no idea” who the man he had pardoned is. “I don’t know who he is,” Trump said of CZ. “I know he got a four month sentence or something like that, and I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.” In the aired interview, O’Donnell asks Trump, “How do you address the appearance of pay for play?” To which he responded, “Well, here’s the thing, I know nothing about it...” However, when O’Donnell again asked if Trump was “concerned about the appearance of corruption” over pardoning CZ due to the links to his family, the transcript revealed the president became annoyed. “I can’t say, because- I can’t say- I’m not concerned. I don’t- I’d rather not have you ask the question. But I let you ask it. You just came to me and you said, ‘Can I ask another question?’ And I said, yeah. This is the question-” NORAH O'DONNELL: So not concerned about the appearance of corruption with this? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: “I can't say, because- I can't say- I'm not concerned. I don't- I'd rather not have you ask the question. But I let you ask it. You just came to me and you said, "Can I ask another question?" And I said, yeah. This is the question- NORAH O'DONNELL: And you answered- PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don't mind. Did I let you do it? I coulda walked away. I didn't have to answer this question. I'm proud to answer the question. You know why? We've taken crypto- NORAH O'DONNELL: But just generally speak- PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Excuse me. We're number one in crypto in the whole world. Other people wanna be. They're fighting like hell to be. But we're number one in crypto because I'm the president. Biden wanted to also, at the very end, you know, he totally switched his thing. O’Donnell cut in to say “And you answered-” as the president continued on to say, “I don’t mind. Did I let you do it? I coulda walked away. I didn’t have to answer this question. I’m proud to answer the question. You know why? We’ve taken crypto-” O’Donnell interrupted Trump, presumably to repeat her question, and Trump said “Excuse me” before continuing his presidential crypto sales pitch without directly addressing the corruption angle. “We’re number one in crypto in the whole world,” Trump said. “Other people wanna be. They’re fighting like hell to be. But we’re number one in crypto because I’m the president... We are number one in crypto and that’s the only thing I care about. I don’t want China or anybody else to take it away. It’s a massive industry.”

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