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Trump on forgiving political enemies: "I probably cannot do that"

WUSA9's excerpts from Ross Douthat's 60 Minutes interview move from the midterm result to family business dealings and a question about the afterlife.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 52,618 views a day, 113 times a normal first day on this channel (467).

President Trump spoke with 60 Minutes' Ross Douthat about the midterms result

WUSA9's account of President Donald Trump's post-midterm interview begins with an electoral question: why didn't his appeal to voters carry over to congressional candidates?

"I think they didn't vote, really," Trump tells 60 Minutes interviewer Ross Douthat. The excerpt offers a brief turnout explanation, rather than a detailed account of his party's losses.

The station's short report has drawn about 52,000 views in just under a day, more than a hundred times its usual first-day audience for Shorts. It packages several distinct exchanges from the interview, not the full conversation.

Douthat also presses Trump about a reported increase in his net worth and foreign investments in World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency business linked to his family. Those figures are presented as the interviewer's questions, rather than independently established in the segment.

The final exchange turns from elections and business to forgiveness. Douthat poses a hypothetical about entering the afterlife and asks whether Trump could forgive political enemies, naming James Comey and Nancy Pelosi.

Trump resists the premise that he should offer forgiveness he does not feel. "Well, then I wouldn't be real, would I?" he asks.

His answer near the end of the excerpt is explicit: "I probably cannot do that, no, because I do hate some of my enemies and I always will."