Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan’s comments on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” may have gone viral, but the retired government official says the network selectively edited out important information.
Homan told Fox News’ “Evening Edit” anchor Elizabeth MacDonald that his full interview with CBS was two hours long, and the information they decided to cut was determined by the pre-conceived narrative they wanted to run, MacDonald said on X.
“Tom Homan, former acting ICE director under Trump, says 60 Minutes made massive edits & censored its 2-hour [interview with] Homan because it had a biased agenda to attack Trump about deportations & to protect Biden-Harris,” MacDonald wrote on social media. “Homan says 60 Minutes came into the [interview with] a pre-determined angle about fascism, but that it edited out what he said about deporting terrorists caught crossing and violent criminal illegal aliens and gang members.”
“That includes, he says, editing out his info on deporting criminal illegal aliens and gang members accused of murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping, sex and drug trafficking and more,” MacDonald continued.
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The anchor then published a rough transcript of her exchange with Homan on Monday’s program:
Homan: First, I sat for almost two hours during a very contentious interview. I went in to talk about why we need a secure border. The damage they [Biden-Harris] have done to this country, why this is such a huge national security issue. Of course, most of that didn’t make it to the final cut.
Liz: And what didn’t make it to the final cut? What did they cut out?
Tom: About the national security threat on the border. About how many, you know, suspected terrorists have been arrested crossing the border. People on terrorist watch lists. [60 Minutes] also edited out the amount of fentanyl coming across that killed a quarter million Americans. They [edited out] a 600% increase in sex trafficking. I talked about all of this. We didn’t talk about, you know, the criminals and the gang members that have come across, Tren de Aragua, they didn’t talk about everything that’s meaningful to the American people. We talked about it, but it didn’t make the final cut. It’s almost a two-hour interview. We talked about all of that, Liz.
MacDonald added that Homan told her he discussed illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. “from 181 different countries” but that was edited out as well.
“They [60 Minutes] came in with a plan,” Homan said, according to MacDonald. “They wanted to show that this massive deportation operation was going to be inhumane. It was going to separate families.”
“It’s going to be, you know, akin to the Nazis,” he added, according to the host. “And that’s why I spent so much time with them explaining how this would be a well-targeted enforcement plan to protect this country and remove national security threats and criminal alien threats.”
Looks like CBS 60 Minutes has another major new editing and now a censorship controversy on its hands.
Tom Homan, former acting ICE director under Trump, says 60 Minutes made massive edits & censored its 2-hour intvw w Homan because it had a biased agenda to attack Trump about…— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) October 28, 2024
