Following a well-documented act of journalistic manipulation by CBS where they edited an interview with Kamala Harris to fabricate her response to a question, President Trump sued CBS for $10 billion alleging ‘election interference and demonstrable bias.’
The editorial manipulation by CBS is not debatable, even Trump critics stood jaw-agape at how stunningly obvious the fabrication within the broadcast 60-minutes interview was. CBS didn’t even attempt to defend itself on the matter. {Background Link}
CBS parent company Paramount Global is currently in an acquisition/merger effort with Skydance Media. The FCC is currently reviewing the possibility of the deal. Here’s where it gets interesting.
Skydance Media is run by David Ellison, the son of billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison is the background money behind Twitter, behind Elon Musk and deeply enmeshed with the Tech Bros motives and intents for gains in the new administration. Larry Ellison has a good relationship with Trump supporting his election.
According to the Wall Street Journal, CBS/Paramount are now considering a lawsuit settlement with Donald Trump that would support a more friendly relationship for their merger interests with David Ellison and Skydance Media. It’s a billionaire “big club” analytical decision.
(Via WSJ) – […] It’s become clear to executives at both companies that Trump’s dissatisfaction with CBS News will make the [FCC] review tougher than they anticipated, and that they’ll likely need to offer concessions to win approval, people familiar with the situation said.
Incoming Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr gave Paramount executives a warning to that effect at a reception late last year following the taping of the Kennedy Center honors in Washington, according to people familiar with the exchange, and he has echoed the message in public remarks.
The FCC has the authority over the transaction because it would involve the transfer of broadcast-TV licenses held by local CBS-owned stations.
Trump’s lawsuit against CBS, which seeks $10 billion in damages, alleges that the network committed election interference by editing portions of an interview with Harris, favoring her campaign for president. Trump claimed CBS aired one version of the interview on “60 Minutes” and another version on its show “Face the Nation,” each containing different answers about Israel. CBS has said it aired a more succinct version of Harris’s interview on “60 Minutes.”
[…] Paramount and Skydance executives have considered a number of possible changes the company could make to shore up CBS News editorial operations while reassuring Trump’s camp, including adding new processes around programming and possibly releasing the transcript of its “60 Minutes” interview with Harris, according to the people familiar with the situation. (read more)
CBS: Completely Broke Soon
Credibility Busted Sooner
Make Credibility Collapse Again
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2018/08/29/president-trump-highlights-severity-of-cnns-credibility-collapse/
Complete Baloney Sandwich
Complete Bull Scheisse
Cannot Be Saved.
I would ask for the Death Sentence. The CBS brand is dead. No more. No broadcast license.
And yes, those local affiliates take a big hit by being forced to be independent stations now.
TOUGH! Sleep with dogs; wake up with fleas.
See B.S.
Everything Biden and Kakala were involved in-and the media-who covered for –them are going DOWN
“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816
Fake-Noose is experiencing a Credibility Collapse.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2020/06/23/former-governor-nikki-haley-who-wants-to-be-president-promotes-fake-bubba-wallace-noose-narrative/
Kakala mastered that move long ago
I hope President Trump doesn’t settle the suit for one penny less than $1 billion dollars. Me, I’d settle for no less than $3 billion.
I wouldnt go for cash, rather see them hanging from a lamp post
Hunter smoking rocks in yellow snow with Ukrainian prostitutes is the best you’re gonna get.
Civil vs criminal.
PS I agree with you. If people don’t swing over this caca it will keep happening.
I’m holding out for the $10b. A guy has to retire comfortably.
….would buy me a new used pickup truck
Probably rebuild mine, new trucks are trash.
My 1984 is getting a heart transplant and a facelift as I type.
Classic car insurance is expensive…
Should last as long as I do.
… you are correct. Mostly overpriced trash…
“Joe Scarborough said that your people said they’re going to arrest him and his producers.
“Joe is a sick puppy.” LOL. There’s no one like Donald Trump.
Do you think he realizes that he is even dumber than Whoopie?
I mean Joe
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GD6NVx8XMAEDCxC?format=jpg&name=small
I doubt it.
President Trump said, “I have never heard of such a thing (slicing and dicing the video) being done in the “News.””
Surely President Trump has not forgotten that the fake news media has edited his videos in other instances, such as the Charlottesville “very fine people” lies.
Trump defense shatters Democrat ‘very fine people’ lie
https://www.wnd.com/2021/02/4891992/
House impeachment managers played a selectively edited video of Trump’s 2017 remark on Thursday, claiming he referred to neo-Nazi rioters as “very fine people.” But David Schoen was ready with the full video, which shows the left has been dishonestly manipulating Trump’s words to back their claim that he is a white supremacist. “There’s that famous quote, like one of the house managers said, ‘A lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its shoes on,'” Schoen began. “Well, this lie traveled around the world a few times, and made its way into the Biden campaign talking points, and ended up on the Senate floor. The Charlottesville lie, ‘very fine people on both sides.’ Except that isn’t all he said, and they knew it then, and they know it now. Watch this.”
As long as you’re not affiliated with the infamous Woodward clan…
Woodward
https://truthsocial.com/@CitizenFreePress/posts/112301076395564399
Bernstein
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/714138/trump-calls-carl-bernstein-sloppy-accuses-him-of-thinking-like-a-degenerate-fool/
Trust the Clans?
Crossfire Hurricane 2: Build Back Terror
In October 2021, the Lincoln Project sent fake white supremacists with Tiki Torches to a Glenn Youngkin rally.
“The FBI did not announce any criminal investigation of this false flag operation aimed at election interference.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1851268457603743873.html
The link inside your link to the full President Trump quote will not play. For starters, someone sabotaged it with a period in the middle of “youtube” where it doesn’t belong.
The Tech Apartheid Oligarchy is behind everything
David Sacks is having a Crypto Ball in DC right now, guest Snoop Dog
Trump is giving the oligarchs everything they want and its going to be devastating very quickly
already 100 million Americans are un/under employed, and the flood of incoming “skilled workers” VISAS and replacement automation across all industries is going to have a seriously brutal effect like a Covid lockdown, “essential human” vs “automated non essential” businesses
The sky is not falling.
Getting rid of tens of and millions illegals will mean there are plenty of jobs.
Last I read, the max we’d get rid of are 3 million.
It’s just infuriating that we can’t go for them all. We are the United States where anything is possible.
I’m sick and tired of paying for them, sick of hearing Spanish, sick of the congestion, just sick of everything about them.
And sick of the fake news trying to drive the narrative about how wonderful they are.
The most recent was that they were helping fight the California fires and they deserved citizenship…not deportation.
I’m sick of watching clearly newly arrived illegals with 2 or 3 babies in tow, shopping until they drop at places like Publix and Costco. I know several degreed couples who can’t afford to shop Publix and go to Kroger.
Take away their benefits. All of them including free medical. Bankrupt them if they don’t pay their medical bills like they do actual citizens.
I am sick of witnessing American seniors (usually women) at a check out, checking out a working age illegal during the workweek.
Need to cut off all federal revenue-sharing to sanctuary states, cities, ad nauseum. With severity.
Do you recall Trump’s unsuccessful attempt to deny federal LE grants to sanctuary cities/states that refused cooperation with ICE?
Grants that explicitly required that cooperation as a term of qualification?
This is not different from that.
Don’t forget, their kids get free lunch at school also.
You might hear FrenchSpeak if you’re in Ohio.
Border Czar Kamala Harris bragging about bringing them to our Country.
“They need support.”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113108464986351138
Crossfire Hurricane 10: Revolutions of Color
Video: Man Arrested Near Calif. Fire Turns Out to Be Illegal Alien
https://headlineusa.com/man-arrested-near-calif-fire-turns-out-to-be-illegal-alien/
You believed that? It was never possible in a country with overwhelming number of prog judges and bought Republican senators. Homan will get some success but all they can hope to do is stop the next batch from entering.
I’m sure Pres Trump likes the idea of mass deportation but I’m not holding my breath it will succeed. He might make a deal with them, who knows?
I suspect that idiot in Colorado will be the test case and when he gets roach stomped the self deportation flood gates will open.
….and billions $$$$ less welfare..said Cloward-Pivens
If they discontinue free housing and welfare many will leave.
Milieu Control
The sky is falling for CBS.
The crisis-cycle increases as awareness penetrates fake-noose silos.
https://stopmediabiasnow.com/bias-by-omission/
This is not an automated post.
“I’ve studied automation.”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113833208508999868
No, the unskilled illegals & imported cheap tech labor are 2 radically different labor markets … One does stoop labor and will never advance beyond this level of skill & never intend to.
The Indian/Chinese tech workers are another matter entirely, completely different mindset and labor sector. They are dangerous to our nation.
Cheap H1B labor, if not seriously curbed, will be our undoing.
Your points about H1B visas are valid.
Beyond the damage to the home-grown IT industry the constant influx of lower-paid, ‘exceptional’ tech workers does to distort the nature of technological innovation… the H1B visa allows a permanent immigration pipeline no one voted on.
Each H1B visa holder can apply for legal residency (green card)… then eventually US citizenship.
Thus, one H1B visa holder actually represents on average 4 people – his spouse and 2 children (H-4 visas).
Thus, 65,000 visas per year is 4 x 65,000=over 250,000 new, Permanent and Legal, additions to the population.
After 10 years, that’s between 2.5-3 million people.
All legal. Yet a result the vast majority of the public is unaware of.
On-shoring supply chains would sure help. I trust that is still on the 47 agenda, even if it does not garner the headlines that other stuff does.
And houses. As someone who has worked with struggling families, the availability of affordable housing is directly tied to the immigration issue.
There are 70 million illegals. 30 came in under Biden
Real unemployment is 25%. Hispanic invaders aren’t taking middle class jobs. Corrupt work visa “legal” immigrants are. Springfield Ohio is happening in every office and business in America. India takes offices. China favtories
How I wish Trump were more selective in his choice of bedmates. ..Ellison, Musk, Sachs, Ramaswamy, Tech Bros, Vance by association et al.…I see nothing but trouble down the road by these people.
MAGA would have been infinitely better had they not been allowed amongst our midst.
Trump had no choice, he might have been able to win without them, but remember how constrained and difficult it was during the last 8 years
also, tech is really the only dynamic sector of the US economy, even with the offshoring, worker visa corruption and general bs that comes with it
if he said, eff Tech, pound sand, he would lose all the donors, all of Congress, the media, the military, the entire business community
its Operation Warpspeed 2.0, AI is mRNA. Tech is Vaccines. Replacement invaders become replacement automation. India is China. Its going to be 1000x bigger than Covid 19
Your “concern” is noted.
“During the course of my administration [as President], and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare.”
–Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural Address, 1805
The effectiveness of concerns diminishes over time.
Overuse of concerns diminish their effectiveness.
Kamala Harris said that January 6 will ‘echo’ in U.S. history like Pearl Harbor and 9/11
What did mac write that is in error?
“Tech” is a whisper of vapor…a chimera…compared to energy…
Tech needs the forthcoming Trump energy boom to survive. All their existing and future programmes and projects require huge sources of cheap, easily available, power. Politics is about working effectively with people you normally wouldn’t. Whilst Trump I was a billionaire real-estate developer, Trump II is a billionaire real-estate developer, whose spent eight years studying politics, a big difference that’s reflected in the two inauguration portraits.
My worry is that almost all the cheap, reliable baseload energy (nuclear, etc) will be reserved for tech, and regular folks will get the expensive, costly, unreliable “green” crap.
“It’s a very mean life.” – Donald J. Trump
Now that’s funny.
Most likely their fake editing was so bad it would completely destroy CBS forever and they know it.
editing
Kamala Harris will need 60 Minutes to join her administration to edit her full-time.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1843699959692177508
If Shamala wants to light her hair on fire and do the dance she’ll need Newscum’s gel.
I’d make it a condition that Lesley Stahl apologize publicly for lying about the Hunter Biden laptop.
Utter public humiliation … Their biggest fear.
Facing President Trump.
Yes!!! Then have to air it with every news/commentary program for 30 days
“Sir, this is 60 Minutes!”
The media has certainly needed a reckoning for a very long time.
CNN paying Sandmann didn’t teach them anything.
CNN paying Young might be getting the point across.
CBS knows their reckoning is now.
Hopefully many others follow, or learn their lessons the hard way.
time
“From forty years’ experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.”
–Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1816
Matt Boyle Previews The Expansion Of Conservative Media Following Readers Abandonment Of Legacy Fake News
https://rumble.com/v66u7qv-matt-boyle.html
“Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.”
–Thomas Jefferson
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/01/07/trump-effect-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-admits-platform-censorship-has-gone-too-far-promises-fundamental-changes/
CBS will take the punishment, but won’t change its ways. NBC was successfully sued by GM over 30 years ago when Dateline NBC used a hidden Estes model rocket engine to ignite gasoline spilling from a crash test GM pickup truck. It was to dramatize a hit piece against GM. NBC is no better today, and even worse. CBS is made of the same stuff.
Thirty years ago, there was very little competition for news. People are seeking truth elsewhere today and flocking to alternative media.
It’s baked into the business model. Are payouts tax deductible? Their corporate sponsors just consider it overhead.
….demonic bias…
Dear Fake News Purveyors: If the sports stats class has got your number you really ARE toast…and…they (we) DO have your number…
Just fold and go home…you’ve lost…your gas lighting and narrative engineering days are past…we see who and what you are.
Sincerely, Joey and JoAnne Lunchbucket
CBS’s logo is literally the one-eye sign. I hope Trump takes them to the cleaners.
And a black eye, at that!
When will we see mass firings of these woke Communists in these news divisions? The Alphabets have lost credibility, money, and viewership. The sands are shifting quickly, and the corporate bosses must change direction soon.
The alternative media is becoming more potent by the day, and the lies spread daily by the MSM are catching up to them. ‘
“The times they are a changing”
I hope President Trump does not settle. Let it all play out in the courts, both of record and public opinion.
Everyone should hear how the fake news creates its fake news, and how it was uses to attempt to sway a presidential election.
I have no care that a rich prick’s son needs to benefit from another giant media merger. CBS should be exposed for what they did.
Alleycats,
You are exactly right! If it plays out in the courts during his second term, they will be soooo screwed! Every time they conjure up some dramatic b.s., for which they plan an impeachment or other seditious action, all he has to do is respond with an, “update” on the lawsuit.
He could do the, “respond to the question you prefer, not the one actually asked” trick.
“Oh, thank you for asking….the Judge in our CBS / fake-news suit found that … and we are waiting to see how the judge rules on this other motion….
I’m sure the case will come to a fruitful conclusion soon (never). That was a great question. Thank you.”
CBS must lose their FCC license… take them off the airwaves.
Keep in mind this is about moving the licenses of 28 CBS-owned stations to new ownership. It’s not about “taking them off the airwaves”. And the referenced complaint about “CBS” is actually made against the NYC station WCBS.
How many people actually watch broadcast TV?, though I guess being over the air broadcast gives some advantages in being carried by licensed cable/CATV providers.
For my part haven’t watched 60 minutes in many years. Don’t watch much sports anymore, and since most sports have moved to pay/subscription which I won’t buy it isn’t even available, but NFL, March Madness, Masters Golf I do watch some of via CBS over the air (as in free) affiliate here (KGMB).
In order to drive the point home with the enemy MSM and their churlish news actors we must Lawfare the left. Bad behavior only stops when there is a price for their bad behavior and with some of these networks brinks on treason.
When they become a tool of the uniparty to attack one side, Russia, Steele Dossier, Bob Meullar, Impeachment 1-2, 2020 election steal, Jan 6th et al and help stage the fraud against a sitting President and the American people, $10 Billion is not enough.
MAGA! …by dismantling all existing tell-a-vision NEWS broadcasters, revoke their FCC license, breakup cable bundling allowing the customer to pick and choose.
Nono no absolutely no settling. They need to be exposed in front of the world
CBS is the tip of the iceberg. Document all of MSM’s lies for the last 4 years, sue them all. Make the press honest again and pay down the national debt with their ill gotten gains.
CBS – Creating Bull Shite
Fake journalists we never forget,
No. Mercy. None. MSM has been the hand maiden of the deep State for too long
FILTHY LIBERALS
Pull all 12 or so Broadcast Licenses from these Leftwing FILTHY LIBERAL Traitor” media companies” for lying to us for at least 2 -3 Election Cycles.
Make them re apply for their license, maybe make them take some “right wing ” re education courses, or put them in Camps. Separate the children and put them in cages, and make them drink bleach, or study Russian interference…Covfefe,
FILTHY LIBERALS
DO NOT SETTLE! DRAG THEM THROUGH THE SYSTEM!
NO MERCY
Whatever the amount, PDJT should earmark $85 million of CBS money in escrow to pay off E Jean Carroll should the crooked NY appellate courts allow the judgement to stand. Then thank CBS for paying that ugly wench…..
That crackpot liar shouldn’t get a penny.
They just need to fire all the people infiltrating that organization who were involved in this stupid dumb judgment travesty. The people INSIDE are responsible. The employees and managers are the ones who should be punished.
I see that most of the comments want to wipe CBS off the face of the earth. I don’t feel that way. The process is the punishment. President Trump persevered and I’m glad but don’t try to eliminate the CBS name and leave a trail of dead trash behind us like the democrats do. That is their way…not ours.
Just make a mockery of the people who were involved in the dishonesty, trash their reputations and leave the name of CBS to correct the error of their ways. TDS is real and there were hateful people involved in the dishonest reporting but lets don’t send CBS to the gas chamber over it. Let’s see if CBS can make corrections to recover from that ridiculous monetary award.
I’M SICK OF THE BILLIONAIRES SCREWING WITH WE THE PEOPLE. JMHO.
If only $10B would prevent the MSM from ‘election interference’, the media will just raise advertising cost, raising that price of ‘Tide’, etc. at Publix, their thinking and behavior won’t change at 60 Minutes, born liberal, die liberal.
The FCC should pull the public broadcasting licenses of ABC, CBS and NBC, but ‘sports’ the nations distractor would suffer, upsetting the Plebs.
CBS = Fake News!
The FCC needs to block the merger.
The president needs to allow the lawsuit to move forward and expose all the manipulation of the press.
Zero tolerance for BS!
Trump should take the money. That way CBS won’t have the financial backing to brazenly lie and think they can get away with it.
The answer to how much does it cost to buy your way out of prison time for intentional election interference.
CBS is trying to wheedle out consequences. Changes to editorial operations and new processes around programming addresses future problems but does nothing to address prior wrongs.
CBS owes recompense for damages and deserves punishment: $10B, pay up.
Gee only 10 billion? After all those decades of lies? I would have hoped for more.