Why voters won't hear directly from Donald Trump in the 60 Minutes election special

Voters will not hear directly from former President Donald Trump during tonight's 60 Minutes election special. Correspondent Scott Pelley explains why.

"60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10.

[sandrahildebrand]

When falsehoods are integral to your campaign, fact checking kind of ruins the vibe.

[saturnv]

If you refused to be fact checked, you already said everything you need to say.

[IndigoBassNotes]

60 minutes called him out on his favorite pastime : lying.
No wonder fact checking is a problem for him.

[pk]

"I will not participate in an interview where you will verify if i'm lying or not. Now vote for me."

YIKES.

[johnm_o_]

I can't believe we have a presidential candidate who literally says it's not fair unless you let me LIE

[archaeobard]

Love the comment at the end about it potentially being the largest audience opportunity left for a candidate before the election. Nice jab at Trump's sore spot.

[jaysonnmpaul]

Yep. Fully a coward. This guy is held up by strings and maliciousness at this point.

[j.b.macadam]

Only liars don't like to be fact checked!

[glinn]

They Are Just Damn WEIRD
👉🏽🇺🇸🗳️☑️💙💙💙💙💙

[leonardodalongisland]

"Facts" "No I want nothing to do with those."

[blipmachine]

Why did the chicken cross the road? To dodge the 60 minutes interview and 3rd debate.

[btfenton]

"Where he was grazed" I bet trump broke the TV when he said grazed lol 😂

[Hanka]

Respect to 60 Minutes for fact checking.

[indadrops]

But he’s not afraid of anything 😂let maga tell it

[dwc]

Trump is too busy working on his concept of a plan for healthcare, which we’ll see in about two weeks.

[bnj]

I’m having a laugh after reading some of the comments of folks making excuses for Trump.

The reason why he backed out is the same reason he will not have another debate with her.

Because he is coward who is running scared.

[marioposada]

We all know why he canceled it,
He's losing it. He can't answer a normal question from a serious reporter. All he he does is rambling to the cult on his rallys

[DK-qfpr]

He chickened out to avoid tough questions. He only gives interviews to MAGA/Russian pseudomedia people

[Cbb]

A true coward. Not surprised, and a great testament to his character, vanity, and disregard for serving the country and fleeing difficult moments.

[Vic-nrjz]

He backs out or doesn’t do many things… never shows tax returns, did not do debates with other republicans, does not release medical records; too scared to do a 3rd debate, backed out of your interview. Just to name a few. I do believe if he had done the debates with other republicans he would not be the candidate. He would not have been able to handle debating several of them.