RE: How do either of those help or hurt Trump?
I am not going to speculate that. But looking at the diff of the edit, anything of "substance" is removed from the response, and what remains is a non-answer.
It is both candidates competing to outdo each other on who will drop more bombs. It is a smoking gun, but not in the way you think it is.
That CBS should owe trump money or face any sort of repercussions over the perceived sleight is absolutely ridiculous. This is the behavior of a narcissistic snowflake, not grown man and last of all a president.
RE: How do either of those help or hurt Trump? I am not going to speculate that. But looking at the diff of the edit, anything of "substance" is removed from the response, and what remains is a non-answer.