President Donald Trump on Sunday torched “60 Minutes” anchor Norah O’Donnell as a “horrible” person and a “disgrace” after the CBS journalist read part of his suspected would-be assassin’s manifesto purporting Trump was a “pedophile, rapist and traitor.”
Norah O’Donnell said in her interview with the president: “The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, ‘Administration officials, they are targets.’ And he also wrote this, ‘I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.’ What’s your reaction to that?”
Trump responded: “Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because … you’re horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”
O’Donnell played dumb, asking Trump, “Oh you think – do you think he was referring to you?”
“I’m not a pedophile,” Trump fired back. “Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person? I got associated with all – stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated.
“Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, ‘You know, I’ll do this interview and they’ll probably’ – I read the manifesto. You know, he’s a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things.”
.@POTUS SLAMS @60Minutes: “You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that — because I’m not any of those things.” pic.twitter.com/QWxqoUFUaF
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 26, 2026
O’Donnell explained: “Mr. President, these are the gunman’s words …”
Trump interjected: “And I was never – excuse me. Excuse me. You shouldn’t be reading that on ’60 Minutes.’ You’re a disgrace. But go ahead. Let’s finish the interview.”
“You’re disgraceful,” Trump concluded.
As WorldNetDaily reported Sunday, Trump said gunman Cole Allen who allegedly shot a Secret Service agent during an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton Saturday night “hates Christians,” based on the manifesto the suspect left.
“He hates Christians, that’s one thing for sure,” Trump told Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News on “The Sunday Briefing.”
“And I think his sister or his brother actually was complaining about it. They were even complaining to law enforcement. So he was a very troubled guy.”
HOST: He left a manifesto in the hotel room that his brother had notified New London Police about prior to this incident… @POTUS: I heard about the New London situation, and I wish they would have told us about it a little bit, but it is what it is. We had a great group of… pic.twitter.com/Gosa3j1mHL
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 26, 2026
“He had a lot of hatred in his heart for quite a while,” said Trump, who said Allen’s motive apparently “was a religious thing, it was strongly anti-Christian.”
“So he’s got some big problems with there rest of his life,” Trump added. “His family knew that he had difficulty. Maybe they should have reported him little bit more strongly … but it’s a hard thing to do.”
Allen reportedly sent an anti-Trump manifesto to his own family about 10 minutes before opening fire at the annual dinner, indicating he was trying to kill top Trump officials, and even signing his letter as the “Friendly Federal Assassin.”
According to the New York Post, Allen wrote in the document: “Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial.”
“I’m not a schoolkid blown up, or a child starved, or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”
He mentioned his targets as: “Administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.”
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