Kamala Harris’ Interview With 60 Minutes That’s At The Center Of Trump’s Lawsuit Receives Emmy Nomination

Former Vice President and failed Presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s interview with 60 Minutes, which is at the center of President Trump’s lawsuit against CBS, has been nominated for an Emmy.

Kamala Harris’s interview with 60 Minutes was nominated for the “Outstanding Edited Interview” category.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung responded to the news by sharing, “Of course it’s nominated for best editing because it takes some serious talent to edit Kamala’s answer into something that’s coherent and understandable, which in the end they still failed to do.”

In the fall of 2024, President Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News and its parent company Paramount Global for alleged election interference on how the network edited its interview with Kamala Harris.

This is the next level of the “celebration parallax”!

The 60 Minutes Kamala Harris interview wasn’t edited, but it was edited so well it deserves an Emmy!

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Check out what Fox News reported:

The controversial “60 Minutes” interview at the center of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes lawsuit against CBS News is now an Emmy-nominated program.

The nominations for the 46th News & Documentary Emmy Awards were announced Thursday. “60 Minutes” landed several nods, most notably in the Outstanding Edited Interview category for its primetime special featuring then-Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Among the other nominees in that category include CBS’ interviews with Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the late Pope Francis, as well as NBC’s interview with Celine Dion and ABC’s interview with Brittney Griner.

“Of course it’s nominated for best editing because it takes some serious talent to edit Kamala’s answer into something that’s coherent and understandable, which in the end they still failed to do,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.

Neither CBS News nor representatives for Trump’s legal team responded to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

Last fall, Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit (it has since been increased to $20 billion) against CBS News and its parent company Paramount Global for what he alleged was election interference with how the network handled its Harris interview in the days leading up to the presidential election.

🚨 JUST INCREDIBLE: The CBS "60 Minutes" interview with former VP Kamala Harris that’s at the root of the lawsuit levied by President Trump against Paramount and CBS has today been announced as a nominee for an Emmy in the 'Outstanding Edited Interview' category. pic.twitter.com/qzyXpTLT4p

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 1, 2025

Here’s what AP reported:

It got “60 Minutes” sued by the man who became president of the United States. Now it’s up for a major award — for precisely the same aspect of it that so enraged Donald Trump.

Last fall’s “60 Minutes” story on Kamala Harris — the subject of Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS — was nominated for an Emmy Award Thursday for “outstanding edited interview.” Trump, in his lawsuit, complained that the interview was deceptively edited to make his Democratic election opponent look good.

The annual News & Documentary Emmys will be awarded in late June. “60 Minutes” is competing against interviews with singer Celine Dion, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Pope Francis and WNBA star Brittney Griner.

The fallout over the Harris interview still hangs over CBS News. The news division claims to have done nothing wrong, but its parent company, Paramount Global, is reportedly negotiating a settlement with Trump.

Many CBS News journalists oppose a settlement. Former “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens, who has fought against such a deal, resigned last month. Owens cited in his resignation the corporate restrictions placed on him in the wake of the Harris story, which is also the subject of an investigation by President Trump’s FCC chairman.

Wednesday in a Truth Social post. This time, his anger spread to The New York Times, which in a story on Tuesday said that “legal experts have called the suit baseless and an easy victory for CBS.”