Probably stupid questions: Does Trump even possess his own copy of the 60 Minutes interview?

[Atticus]

Does he have the legal right to broadcast it before 60 Minutes does?

[mucifer]

1. Laws? trump?

[Claustrum]

2. Hehe. I had the same question. Why do the interviewee have a copy of the interview? n/t

[soothsayer]

3. Maybe he means the approval copy he'll get?

[BannonsLiver]

4. Their likely had a staffer record it

I’ve heard-read that he has done that in the past.

[Mike 03]

7. That's my guess.

As a condition of the interview, since he's the President and he's paranoid.

Probably the same videographer who recorded that footage of Stahl without a mask.

[Atticus]

21. Just now on CNN, Brian Stelter said the White House was allowed to video the interview

for "archival purposes" only and that releasing it would "breach their agreement.."

Therefore, I expect an edited version to be released soon.

[BannonsLiver]

22. Yep. That would make sense.

[alwaysinasnit]

5. Interesting question. Maybe 60 Minutes required him to sign an NDA. Wouldn't that be ironic, if so?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I would think it's the property of CBS, not the interviewee.

But Trump wouldn't care about such legal niceties.

[Mike 03]

8. Trump probably doesn't have "the" 60 Minutes footage, from their

cameras. But he may have the bootleg his White House videographer shot.

[PTWB]

19. Trump has a separate camera to record his interviews

He also records calls with journalists (see: Woodward) because he is paranoid they’ll take what he says out of context, not realizing that there’s no good way to take anything he says.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. How do you know this?

I can't imagine CBS or any other network allowing interviewees to make their own recordings of what is essentially their intellectual property, which they routinely copyright.

[Karma13612]

9. I'm guessing here, but unless

Trump had someone actually record it for him, I doubt the network is just going to make their recording available to Trump.

There are usually copyright issues. It’s their own content.

As a rule, I can’t see a network just voluntarily supplying a copy of their tape to an interviewee.

[Shermann]

10. His copy is...odd

Instead of Leslie Stahl, for some reason it has Bill Barr asking the "tough" questions.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. I take it to mean maybe he had someone from the WH also film while 60 Minutes filmed?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Or else there is no copy and he's just Twittering shit.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. I can't imagine CBS would allow anyone else to tape

their interview. Someone could edit it any which way.

[PJMcK]

15. Thread winner!

Unless Trump had an aide record the interview, he wouldn't have a copy.

As you wrote, Trump is just Twittering shit.

[PTWB]

30. CNN confirmed the white house recorded the interview 'for archival purposes'

Trump records all his contacts / interviews with journalists because he is paranoid. He is afraid they'll take his insane ramblings ''out of context'' and edit them to make him look bad. He doesn't realize he just looks bad no matter how they edit the interviews.

[smirkymonkey]

16. That would be my guess.

He's just flinging shit these days. You can't trust one word he says.

[SoCalNative]

18. Noel Casler seems to think this is the case

as he has been advised to do by Mark Burnett so that he has footage for his own reality show/network after he's out of office

[Tanuki]

14. Could it be that the government has to make and retain its own copy

as an official "presidential record"? I never thought about this before today.

[GulfCoast66]

17. I don't believe he even has a copy.

Granted I’m not the president, but I’ve done plenty of interviews with journalists and they own the copy.

I would be surprised if 60 Minutes would give anyone, even the president, the right to edit.

[PTWB]

20. He records it with his own camera.

He also records his phone calls with journalists.

[LanternWaste]

23. You'll of course, provide evidence (beyond mere hearsay and rumor) to support this?

[PTWB]

31. It is common knowledge that he does so. See the Woodward tapes as another recent example.

[jcgoldie]

25. Read they allowed the white house to tape it

"for archival purposes"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. According to Politico,

"the White House had agreed it was taping the interview for archival purposes only." https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/20/trump-ends-60-minutes-interview-430466 "Archival purposes" shouldn't include putting it on the Internet, I would think.

[jcgoldie]

27. They aren't going to put it on the internet

...because it will make him look like a buffoon. He just threatens that in the same way he says he's going to release everything on the "Russia hoax" without redactions... all bluster and then they have to spend a week in court making the dumbshit argument that "the president was just kidding."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. That's likely true. He probably thinks he's scaring Lesley Stahl,

which he assuredly is not. On the other hand, he does sometimes publish things that he thinks make him look smart but which actually make him look like a moron.

[Poiuyt]

29. Lordy, I hope there are tapes!