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Former President Donald J. Trump called for CBS to face severe penalties over the doctoring of its heavily hyped “60 Minutes” interview with Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.

The pre-recorded interview with the vice president aired on Monday but it was soon noticed that the answer to a question posed by correspondent Bill Whitaker about the relationship with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu had been altered from a clip that previously aired on “Face The Nation” that was ridiculed for Harris’ word salad answer, with the new version shorter and more to the point.

The different answers have drawn calls for CBS News to release the full transcript – which it hasn’t done – and some ex-CBS staffers are now calling for an outside probe. Trump blasted the network for “election interference” and called for CBS to lose its broadcasting license over the scandal.

“A giant Fake News Scam by CBS & 60 Minutes,” Trump said in a Thursday Truth Social post. “Her REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, so they actually REPLACED it with another answer in order to save her or, at least, make her look better. A FAKE NEWS SCAM, which is totally illegal.”

“TAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE,” he added. “Election Interference. She is a Moron, and the Fake News Media wants to hide that fact. An UNPRECEDENTED SCANDAL!!! The Dems got them to do this and should be forced to concede the Election? WOW!”

“The other big news is the fraud committed by ‘60 Minutes’ and CBS together with the Democrat Party, working together with them, which will go down as the single biggest scandal in broadcast history, I predict,” the Republican nominee said later in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club.

Also on Thursday, the New York Post reported that the “60 Minutes” editing scandal and the network’s refusal to release the full transcript should be probed from the outside.

“I think there should be an outside investigation,” a former CBS News journalist told the outlet. “Obviously, there’s a problem here. If they care about journalistic integrity, they would conduct an investigation or release the full transcript.”

Another CBS source told the paper that the different answers give the appearance that the long-running show, the network’s flagship, is “biased.”

“Their credibility has been called into question and their impartiality has been called into question,” the source told the paper. “Don’t you need a full-throated review of what went wrong?”

“’60 Minutes’ holds itself to the highest journalistic standards,” the ex-CBS staffer told the Post. “Releasing the transcript would answer everyone’s questions and it would allow them to stand behind the integrity of the story they broadcast.”

“The stakes are too high. It’s a presidential election. Trump is asking for the transcript and journalists are asking for answers,” the source added.

“60 Minutes is a major part of the News Organization of CBS, which has just created the Greatest Fraud in Broadcast History. CBS should lose its license, and it should be bid out to the Highest Bidder, as should all other Broadcast Licenses, because they are just as corrupt as CBS — and maybe even WORSE!” Trump said in another Thursday post to Truth Social.

“CBS and 60 Minutes, working with the Democrats, probably did the same thing with the Crooked Joe Biden interviews as they did for Kamala – Changed his answers so that he looked intelligent, which he is not,” he added in another post. “With me they probably edit my answers to make me look as bad as possible. I have always felt that, but now, with the Kamala Scandal, the worst and most blatant in the history of broadcasting, we have the PROOF that 60 Minutes, and CBS, play DIRTY. Real Creeps!”

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