CBS appears to have taken Donald Trump’s advice on axing a section of his 60 Minutes interview in which he bragged about a multi-million dollar payout from network parent company Paramount.

“And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money,” the president said, according to a full transcript of the sit-down released by CBS. “And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t want to embarrass you.”

That portion of the exchange did not subsequently feature in either the 28-minute TV edit of the interview aired by the network, or the 73-minute extended cut released online. Nor did the president’s rant about ongoing public backlash to his highly controversial decision to pardon Changpeng Zhao, a crypto billionaire previously convicted of money laundering violations.

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