Posted on 02/06/2025 12:35:27 PM PST by Red Badger
President Trump on Thursday suggested CBS News’s “60 Minutes” be taken off the air after the program released a transcript of an interview it aired last fall with former Vice President Harris amid a federal investigation into the broadcast.
“CBS and 60 Minutes defrauded the public by doing something which has never, to this extent, been seen before,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website. “They 100% removed Kamala’s horrible election changing answers to questions, and replaced them with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview.”
Trump and his allies have for months argued the outlet edited the interview with Harris to cast her in a more positive light.
The program shared a full unedited transcript of the Harris interview with the FCC this week and posted it online, saying it shows “consistent with 60 Minutes’ repeated assurances to the public – that the 60 Minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful.”
“In reporting the news, journalists regularly edit interviews – for time, space or clarity,” the show said. “In making these edits, 60 Minutes is always guided by the truth and what we believe will be most informative to the viewing public – all while working within the constraints of broadcast television.”
Trump is separately suing CBS News for $10 billion over the Harris interview, arguing in legal filings the news outlet engaged “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion.”
Trump and his allies at the FCC have repeatedly suggested major news networks be scrutinized more heavily and even lose their broadcast licenses over coverage he feels is unfair to him.
During an appearance on Fox News Thursday morning, FCC Chair Brendan Carr acknowledged “there are a lot of people in this country right now on the radical left that are upset about this investigation.”
“And what I’m here to do is apply the law evenly,” Carr said. “This is a rare situation where we have extrinsic evidence that CBS had played one answer or one set of words and then swapped in another set. And CBS’s conduct through this, frankly, has been concerning.”
I would add imprisoned for illegal campaign contributions.
They did it to Dinesh D’Souza.
OH! And misuse of taxpayer funds (If CBS is also on the list of USAID recipients).
CBS should have all the television licenses revoked for both its wholly owned and affiliated local stations.
They do not serve the public interest
It is time to stop playing nice.
There need to be real consequences.
Do what Dominion did to Fox. Make that a condition of settling tingly your lawsuit against CBS. They lied about “not doctoring” the interview before a Fed Judge.
It should have been terminated when Morley Safer died.
A zebra cannot change its stripes. Pull the plug.
I don’t want to take anybody off of the air.
How about if we can prove they took government funds to propagandize for one political party?
Trump needs to file an amended complaint and raise the amount of his suit to $1 billion.
Retitle it ’60 Edited Minutes, Fake but Accurate!’
I see no advantage to it. The government should not be in the business of deciding who gets heard in the public square. In fact I believe there is an amendment to that end.
I once witnessed this first hand many, many years ago.
Long before the internet and I was young and just getting involved in politics.
Issue was gun control related. I was present when an aggressive reporter was questioning the NRA representative on the subject.
Asked a specific question. Several minutes later asked the question again but phrased quite differently.
That night on the news they played the first question and the second answer. Made the NRA rep look callous and stupid. Wasn’t much opportunity for recourse back then.
Media has been playing this game for a long time.
Agree wholeheartedly. If it becomes okay to yank opposing voices, however you care to define them, off the air it will be used against conservative venues when the Marxists get back in power.
Leave it on ... and mock the sh*t out of them morning, noon and night, with evidence.
It seems CBS has a history of “fake but ‘accurate’!”
Hello?
Or $10 billion.
CBS News is interferring with the future of a country.
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