Donald Trump called for a 60-minute “end” of American journalism in a new onslaught on the media. This includes unfounded claims that money from the country’s plagued foreign aid agencies were illegally funding news organizations.
The request to air 60 minutes came to a post about Trump’s true social platform. This is the latest salvo in a long-term controversy with the CBS program over compiling interviews with the defeated Democratic presidential candidate last year, with Trump filing a $10 million lawsuit alleging “election intervention.” .
“CBS should lose its license, all the con artists should be thrown away in 60 minutes, and this dishonest ‘news’ show should be over soon,” Trump wrote. The range is “I’ve never seen it before.”
Diatribe followed the 60-minute release of an unedited transcript of Harris’ interview with the Federal Communications Commission to take over Trump’s accusations. The transcript was also posted on the website.
“The (transcript) shows that a 60-minute broadcast is not doctor or deceitful, consistent with the guarantee of repeated 60 minutes of public life,” read the accompanying notes on the site. .
The original controversy arose after the submitted interview featured different segments of Harris’ answers to questions about Israel from the version screened as a trailer. Trump supporters argued that the final version was more refined than the original. This was laughed out loud as a “word salad.” Trump has accused Harris of compiling her answers to portray her from a more positive perspective, and for increasing her chances of elections.
The 60-minute employee rejects bias claims and says that such editing is a standard practice. However, CBS owner Paramount Global (now seeking a $8 billion merger with Skydance Media) has reported pressure from newly appointed FCC chairman Brendan Carr, $10 million. He began negotiations with Trump’s lawyers about the lawsuit.
In an interview with Fox News, Carr said he shared Trump’s opinion on the 60-minute interview with Harris.
“This is a rare situation where there is exogenous evidence that CBS played one answer or one set of words and exchanged it for another set. And through this, CBS’s actions are frankly , there has been concern,” he said.
Trump, who frequently branded journalists in his first semester, on Thursday, amplifying false claims that USAID, a now-closed foreign aid agency, had funded Politico and other news outlets. spread the attacks to other outlets. $8 million.
“We have to ask whether CBS was paid for committing this scam in the new Democratic scandal that just arises about USAID illegally paying large sums of money to politics and other media. Is that?” he wrote.
The accusations denied and subsequently exposed by politics were first created by social media influencers supporting Trump. Social media influencers have sought to establish a link between the glitch that caused delayed payments to Politico staff and the glitch that caused a freeze in Elon Musk’s so-called USAID funding. “Ministry of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). The agent has access to the federal payment system.
It was later repeated by White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt.
In fact, payments to government subscription services are made throughout the vast government bureaucracy, including staff of Republicans in Congress, the Washington Post reported. In a statement, Politico said that the total of two separate subscription payments were under $43,000, due to sub-divisions within USAID in 2023 and 2024.
In a statement to staff, Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and editor-in-chief John Harris said the site was “not a beneficiary of government programs or grants.”
