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In "60 Minutes" interview, Donald Trump weighs Twitter use as president
cbsnews.com ^ | 11/12/16 | Reena Flores

Posted on 11/12/2016 3:42:03 PM PST by ColdOne

Donald Trump will appear in his first extensive post-election interview Sunday on “60 Minutes” at 7 p.m. ET/PT

After frequently deploying his controversial Twitter account over the last year to wage his White House campaign, President-elect Donald Trump is now promising to be “very restrained” with his use of the social media platform while in the Oval Office.

“60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl, in an interview to air Sunday on CBS, asked Trump whether he would continue utilizing Twitter as president. Trump replied with this: “I’m going to be very restrained, if I use it at all, I’m going to be very restrained.”

“I find it tremendous,” he said of the social media platform, which he credited for winning the White House race. “It’s a modern form of communication. There should be nothing we should be ashamed of.”

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Trump on 60 min Sunday!
1 posted on 11/12/2016 3:42:03 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

that mummy Stahl is still alive?


2 posted on 11/12/2016 3:47:04 PM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: ColdOne
Obama hired a staff of 20 people to create and post Tweets and manage his Facebook page in his name.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/president-obama-has-20-aides-just-to-manage-his-twitter-and-facebook-accounts_112015

3 posted on 11/12/2016 3:48:52 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: ColdOne

Translation: I am going to stick it straight up your ahole if you media d!cks lie about me.


4 posted on 11/12/2016 3:49:55 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: ColdOne

Use it to put pressure on the rats and the GOP bed wetters when needed


5 posted on 11/12/2016 3:50:54 PM PST by Emergencyawesome
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To: ColdOne
This is a great idea. It will allow him to let his supporters know when he needs their help convincing Mitch McDonald and Paul Rino to do the right thing.

We know how to melt down the DC phone lines and get them in line.

We stopped immigration amnesty twice that way.

6 posted on 11/12/2016 3:52:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: ColdOne

I love Trump’s tweets; he had a beautiful one today about unifying and winning.


7 posted on 11/12/2016 3:55:33 PM PST by edie1960
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To: ColdOne

He needs to find a medium that we can get information truthful information directly from his team. The scumedia will not and we are out here are in the dark


8 posted on 11/12/2016 3:57:51 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ColdOne

The thing about Trump using Twitter is you can never accuse the guy of not being transparent. I say do it up, let the people know exactly how you feel and what is going on.


9 posted on 11/12/2016 3:58:17 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon.)
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To: ColdOne

Should the media and Congress misbehave , Tweets should flow.


10 posted on 11/12/2016 4:01:22 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Trump is going to slash the budget of the White House. Guaranteed.


11 posted on 11/12/2016 4:03:17 PM PST by lodi90 (President Trump - Has a nice ring to it!)
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To: max americana

She’s still convinced someone believes she is blonde.

See also: Hillary Clinton, Martha Raddatz, Judy Woodruff


12 posted on 11/12/2016 4:09:08 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: lodi90

Didn’t he at one point say he was giving his salary to charity?


13 posted on 11/12/2016 4:35:13 PM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: Paladin2

The Tweets must flow.

14 posted on 11/12/2016 4:41:09 PM PST by NorthMountain (Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: ColdOne

Trump’s going to have to continue to use twitter to bypass the enemedia. I thought he would understand that.


15 posted on 11/12/2016 5:20:38 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ColdOne

I don’t get it, why would Pres-elect Trump give 60 minutes his first interview, especially with Leslie Stahl. Seems he should have done it with someone who had his back, like Hannity or Lou Dobbs on Fox News and Fox Business. Makes no sense to me.


16 posted on 11/12/2016 5:25:25 PM PST by falcon99
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To: falcon99

It’s called reaching out...

He is after all going to be POTUS of all the people, even the ones that dispise him...


17 posted on 11/12/2016 5:29:52 PM PST by Popman
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To: ColdOne

With all this time for creative editing, it will be interesting to see how bad they can make him look. But he chose to walk into the enemy camp, so...


18 posted on 11/12/2016 6:13:15 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: ColdOne

No reason to ditch twitter. There are so many mediums for communicating these days.


19 posted on 11/12/2016 6:28:01 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Mercat

He’s not keeping one cent of the 400,000 salary


20 posted on 11/13/2016 3:42:37 AM PST by Guenevere (If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
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