Trump in '60 Minutes' Interview: He Cannot Forgive Enemies Like Comey and Pelosi, Even If It Meant Entering Heaven
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in a '60 Minutes' interview aired on the evening of November 8 that he could not forgive his political enemies even if forgiveness were the condition for entering heaven. Correspondent Ross Douthat asked whether he could feel love and forgiveness for people he has said he hates, including former FBI Director James Comey and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Trump said he could not.
Asked first what he thought would happen when he dies, Trump said he was a religious person and in theory would go to heaven, that he hoped so and did not want to go to hell. Put to the hypothetical, he called the people named extremely dishonest and very bad for the country, said he loved the country far more than he could love such people, and, pressed on whether his answer was no, said the answer was no, that he wanted to be honest, and that he did hate some of his enemies and always would.
The remarks contrasted with his appearance at Charlie Kirk's memorial, where, discussing forgiveness of the assassin, he said he differed from the widow Erika Kirk and hated his opponent. The interview was Trump's first extended sit-down since Democrats retook both chambers of Congress in the November 3 midterms, and it also covered the Iran war, the economy, immigration and the Republican Party's political future.
This segment of the interview had not been covered in GSM's earlier reports on the same broadcast, which addressed its immigration and election-attribution portions.
(Source: CBS)
Source: CBS
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