Senator Bernie Sanders invites CBS News to ‘hold’ while the network allegedly considers a settlement against Trump’s lawsuit
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Invites CBS News not to “yield” president Donald Trump While the net is supposedly considering a settlement to end her legal altercation with 47th Commander -in -Chief.
In October, Trump filed a lawsuit of $ 10 billion against CBS News, stating allegedly interfering with the interview with an interview in “60 minutes” with Vice -President Kamal Harris, accusing the network to help his democratic rival by false editing. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the CBS parent company Paramount Global considers the settlement in the dispute before the planned merger, which ultimately must undergo a check of the new Trump administration.
Sanders addressed Xu on Friday to warn of the prospect of settlement.
“CBS may have a legal settlement with Trump because he didn’t like how an interview with Kamal in the campaign was mounted. Really?” Sanders responded. “If CBS discounts, it is undermined by the belief that we have independent media protected by the first amendment.”
“CBS: Stand up. Support the Constitution,” the progressive MP added.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Invites CBS News not to “yield” President Trump because his home company Paramount Global is allegedly setting up a settlement with the 47th Commander-in-Chief. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
CBS News did not immediately respond Fox News DigitalRequest for comment.
Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News stems from the conversation Harris had with the “60 Minute” correspondent Bill Whitaker. In a review clip broadcast on “Face the Nation”, Harris is asked why it seems that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not listen to now
“Well, Bill, the job we did resulted in numerous movements in that region by Israel that were largely stimulated or the result of many things, including our advocacy of what needed to happen in the region, Harris answered in the video” Face the The Nation. ”
Harris made fun of the conservatives because he offered Whitaker a long “word salad”. But when the same question was broadcast next night in a striking election special, A shorter, focused answer The vice president followed.
“We will not stop striving for what it takes for the United States to be clear about where we are standing in terms of the need to end this war,” Harris said in the main term.
Bill Whitaker’s “60 minutes” interview with Vice President Kamal Harris is in the center of a great lawsuit initiated by President Trump. (Screen shots/CBS News)
Critics have accused CBS News for assembling Harris’s answer “Word salad”. In order to protect the vice president from further reactions, and there were also calls for the network to publish the entire transcript after sharing only transcripts of what was emitted.
“In order to cover up Kamalin’s weakness ‘word salad’, CBS used its national platform to 60 minutes to cross the border from judgment to report to false, deceptive manipulation of news,” the lawsuit said.
Trump’s lawyers claimed that the changes made in attempting to “exceed the Libra in favor of the Democratic Party as the presidential elections 2024 – which President Trump leads – approaches the end.”
“CBS’s party and unlawful acts of interfering with election and voters through malicious, deceitful and significant distortions of news of the coarse of the confusing, deception and deception of the public,” the lawsuit said.
WSJ reported that Paramount was considering arranging an agreement with the president as it tends to connect with Skydance Media in the hope of preventing potential retaliation by Trump’s FCC, which has the authority to stop a transaction worth more billions of dollars.
President Trump has filed a lawsuit of $ 10 billion against CBS News during the election, but now the home company Paramount Global is reportedly considering a settlement now that he is back to the oval office. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The settlements about the settlement come only a few weeks after the ABC News resolved a defamation lawsuit filed by Trump, resulting in a $ 15 million and a written apology.
Last year, Trump sued the net owned by Disney after the exchange that her leader George Stephanopoulos had with MP Nancy Mace, Rs.c., on Sunday morning information show “This week”.
During the interview, Stephanopoulos won ten different times Trump was proclaimed “responsible for rape” when the jury in the civic case E. Jean Carroll actually determined responsible for “sexual abuse”, which has a clear definition according to the Law of New York.
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Despite defiant The posture that Stephanopoulos occupied early, his bosses at House of Mouse felt different. According to the settlement, ABC News paid $ 15 million as a charity contribution to the “presidential foundation and a museum that will be founded by or for prosecutors, such as the presidents of the United States have founded in the past.” In addition, the network will pay $ 1 million for Trump’s law fees. Stephanopoulos and ABC News also had to publish the statements of “regret” as a editor’s note at the bottom of the article on the ABC News website.
Liberal critics accused ABC News of “kneeling” in front of Trump and set a bad precedent, something Sanders claims to happen to CBS News, which meets with the President.
Brooke Singman and Brian Flood from Fox News contributed to this report.
