60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl placed under 24 hour security after Trump interview brings death threats
It was only four short years ago that America was certainly much greater than it is today.
Before Donald Trump took office, journalists interviewing a president had little fear of receiving death threats from viewers incensed over their willingness to ask tough questions and push back on answers that defied credibility and generally accepted reality.
Now it’s a different story as CBS News has reportedly been forced to hire 24-hour a day security for 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl after one of her family members received a threat against their lives after the anchor’s interview with Donald Trump which was broadcast on the program on Sunday night.
As you may have heard, Trump was so displeased with the interview that he cut it short and walked out, expressing his displeasure by complaining furiously about how unfair the 60 Minutes correspondent was to him and petulantly ignoring copyright laws to post the unedited interview footage online before the program’s scheduled broadcast in an apparent attempt to sabotage the ratings of the show.
Typically for Trump, the move backfired and propelled 60 Minutes to it’s highest viewership since their interview with the president’s illicit paramour Stormy Daniels two years ago.
The news about the full-time guards assigned to Stahl was revealed by TMZ today, which reported these details, citing “multiple sources”:
“CBS is now providing Stahl with around-the-clock security due to a death threat made to the home of one of her immediate family members on the west coast,” TMZ writes.
“We’re told the network has guards monitoring the homes of Lesley and her family members, and escorting them if they go out in public. Law enforcement sources tell us the death threat call was reported to LAPD around 9 AM Thursday, October 22. We’re told the caller directed the threat toward Lesley and her family, and also said something about neo-Nazis.””The call came a couple days after word got out the President bailed on Lesley. That’s also a few hours before Trump released the full interview ahead of Sunday’s broadcast,” TMZ continued.
Character matters, and the type of president who both inspires potentially murderous crazies to make a threat like this against a 78-year-old TV journalist and who refuses to condemn such behavior needs to be booted from office as soon as possible.
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Original reporting by TMZ.
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