Observers hit President Donald Trump with a brutal fact-check after he made a "clinical-grade" remark during his interview on "60 Minutes."
Trump sat down for a one-on-one interview with Norah O'Donnell of CBS News on Sunday, just a day after an alleged shooter named Cole Allen opened fire during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. No one was killed during the event, and Allen was arrested by Secret Service agents, according to reports.
During the interview, O'Donnell asked Trump about a part of Allen's manifesto, which he sent to his family members ahead of the shooting, where he said he was no longer willing to let "a pedophile, rapist, and traitor" continue to "coat [his] hands in crimes."
Trump lashed out at O'Donnell for asking the question, arguing that he is not a rapist and calling her a "disgrace."
Observers offered the president a swift fact-check on social media.
"A jury and a judge adjudicated him as a rapist," Norman Ornstein, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, posted on X. "A woman credibly accused him of rape when she was 13. He bragged about walking into a dressing room with naked teenagers. He bragged about grabbing women by the p----."
"Trump is a clinical-grade psychopath," journalist Nancy Levine Sterns posted on X.
"Trump is literally a court adjudicated rapist," novelist Patrick S. Tomlinson posted on X.
"Wow. This interview was epic. Trump’s nastiness and consciousness of guilt were off the f------ charts," podcaster Andy Ostroy posted on X.
In 2023, a jury found Trump liable in a civil sexual abuse and defamation case filed by E. Jean Carroll. A judge later clarified that the jury's guilty verdict meant Trump had been found liable for rape, the Washington Post reported at the time.