President Donald Trump erupted at CBS News correspondent Norah O'Donnell during a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday, branding her a 'disgrace' after she read passages from the alleged manifesto of the gunman who stormed Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner, accusing the reporter of amplifying the writings of a 'sick person' on national television.
The outburst came as O'Donnell quoted writings attributed to 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, a former teacher from Torrance, California, in which he described his targets as a 'pedophile, rapist, and traitor.' Trump's reply, 'I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody,' has thrust a single question into the centre of an already raw national debate, whether mainstream broadcasters should air the language of political attackers at all.
