President Donald Trump‘s 60 Minutes appearance on Sunday night got heated after host Norah O’Donnell read from an alleged manifesto of the suspected White House correspondents’ dinner shooter.
O’Donnell read to Trump parts of the manifesto that the suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, allegedly wrote before the shooting. One of the lines she read accused Trump of being a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor.”
O’Donnell’s recitation prompted an immediate rebuke from Trump, who called her a “disgrace.”
“I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you’re horrible people,” the president said. “Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”
O’Donnell briefly interjected, saying, “Oh, do you think he was referring to you?”
Trump then continued to deny those claims, rehashing his denial of having anything to do with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
“I’m not a pedophile,” Trump continued. “You read that crap
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