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MORNING GLORY: Trump saw the truth legacy media missed — sick minds are fueling violence

From Columbine to the White House attack, a pattern recognition gap persists in studying what drives so-called statement killers

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published April 28, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Trump calls '60 Minutes' 'disgraceful' in post-WHCD interview

President Donald Trump criticized CBS News' "60 Minutes" for reading from the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect's alleged manifesto.

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"He was probably a pretty sick guy," President Trump correctly concluded about his would-be assassin in a Sunday night "60 Minutes" interview on CBS about the Saturday night attack on the White House Correspondents’ Association annual gathering. "A man with a lot of problems," the president added later in the interview.

"I wasn’t worried," the president said. "I understand life. We live in a crazy world."

"Look, you have sick people, and you have to mitigate the risk," President Trump concluded. He’s right, of course. But how?

TRUMP CALLS '60 MINUTES' HOST 'DISGRACEFUL' FOR READING WHCD SUSPECT'S ALLEGED MANIFESTO ON AIR

President Trump also flashed some justifiable anger at the 20-minute mark in a 40-minute interview, when Norah O’Donnell repeated the slanders in the would-be assassin’s manifesto. There are so many excellent questions that could be asked in a 40-minute interview that this was an abuse of time that, while predictable, should trigger a shake-up at "60 Minutes." It is not hard to interview the president in a responsible fashion. 

The decision to quote a crazy person’s libel in front of that enormous audience is a massive failure of editorial judgment, and another incredible unforced error by legacy media that just cannot read the national room. 

That decision ranks with former CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood’s epic fail in a 2016 debate when he asked then-candidate Donald Trump whether his run for the White House was a "comic book version of a presidential campaign," a dropping of the mask that may have ultimately forced Harwood to move to another network in 2019.

The decision to quote a crazy person’s libel in front of that enormous audience is a massive failure of editorial judgment, and another incredible unforced error by legacy media that just cannot read the national room. 

Many credentialed journalists seem to lose their professionalism when talking to Trump. It’s remarkable how they can’t resist trying to "score" a moment on him and use that time to, who knows, do something crazy like ask questions about the battle with Iran?

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