Highlights (Lowlights?) From Donald Trump's '60 Minutes' Interview

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Donald Trump's sit-down with 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl last night provided several eye-brow raising moments for the American public.

Oh goodness, where to begin?

After telling his supporters at campaign rallies that he and Kim Jong Un "fell in love" and that he really gets along great with him, Stahl brought up some of the most notorious aspects of the North Korean dictator's resume.

Lesley Stahl on Kim Jong Un: "He presides over a cruel kingdom of repression, gulags, starvation…slave labor, public executions. This is a guy you love?"
President Trump: "I know all these things… I get along with him, okay? … Let it be whatever it is to get the job done.” pic.twitter.com/J6Gbuns2t6

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 14, 2018

When Stahl brings up Trump mocking Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on the campaign trail, asking if he thinks he treated Ford with respect, Trump diverts with a simple, "It doesn't matter - we won."

Lesley Stahl: “Do you think you treated [Dr. Christine Blasey Ford] with great respect?”
Trump: “...it doesn’t matter. We won.”

If you think her hearing and the FBI probe were anything more than political theater, this should clear things up.pic.twitter.com/ZxTnGzUlcX

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) October 15, 2018

Eventually, Trump could tell the chat wasn't going well. He finally got snippy telling the veteran reporter, "Lesley, it's ok. In the meantime, I'm president and you're not."

Lesley Stahl’s interview with Trump is a tour de force.

Sensing it wasn’t going well, Trump resorted to this: “Lesley, it's okay. In the meantime, I'm president--and you're not.” https://t.co/zOO3r50X6A

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 15, 2018

Lesley Stahl did an excellent job interviewing Trump — refusing to let him lie his way through as most do.

Clearly, doing a good job is not impossible.

This should be the new standard & we must hold journalists who fail to meet it accountable.

Too much is at stake. #60Minutes

— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) October 15, 2018

Reporter Lesley Stahl: Trump Told Me He Attacks The Press ‘So When You Write Negative Stories About Me, No One Will Believe You’

Veteran 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl appeared at the annual Deadline Club Awards Dinner in New York City for a Q&A with fellow journalist Judy Woodruff on Monday night.

Stahl shared in the 30 minute chat about interviewing Donald Trump in Trump Tower shortly after the election. Before the interview began, he began railing at the press and she asked him why he attacks the media so much.

“Before the interview I met with him in Trump Tower. And he really is the same off camera that he is on camera, exactly the same.

"And at one point he started to attack the press. And it’s just me and my boss and him – he has a huge office – and he’s attacking the press. And there were no cameras, there was nothing going on.

"And I said, ‘You know, that is getting tired, why are you doing this? You’re doing it over and over and it’s boring, it’s time to end that, you’ve won the nomination [sic], and why do you keep hammering at this?’

"And he said: ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.’

"He said that. So put that in your head for a minute.”

Bolding is mine.

Judy Woodruff's reaction says it all. Watch below.