'The hard way': Trump makes direct threat to CBS News over interview he calls 'sordid'

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, outraged over claims he's circulated that CBS News doctored a clip of a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris, hurled threats at the national news network Thursday and said he was willing extract evidence from them "the hard way."

Trump — convicted of falsifying business records to cover up money in a tabloid's catch-and-kill scheme to bury salacious stories ahead of the 2016 presidential election — expressed his frustration at CBS News on Truth Social.

"60 MINUTES SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY TAKEN OFF THE AIR - ELECTION INTERFERENCE," Trump wrote. "THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN BROADCAST HISTORY."

Other recent broadcast scandals include the $787 million Fox News paid Dominion Voting Systems to settle their defamation lawsuit over false claims Trump's 2020 election defeat was rigged.

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Trump then lambasted his opponent Harris and said she should be "investigated" and "forced" from her own presidential campaign. He has claimed the clip was doctored by CBS to hide a poor response to a question Harris gave.

"THIS WHOLE SORDID AND FRAUDULENT EVENT IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!" Trump wrote.

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Trump then levied a threat at CBS News that, should the national news network refuse to hand over information regarding the clip to the government, as a conservative law firm requested in a recent Federal Communications Commission complaint.

"RELEASE THE TAPES FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA," Trump wrote. "We can do it the nice way, or the hard way!"