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Senator Bernie Sanders, i-vt Donald Trump Since, as reported, the network is considering an agreement to end its legal dispute with the 47th commander in chief.
In October, Trump filed a demand for 10 billion dollars against CBS News alleging electoral interference for its management of the “60 minute” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing the chain to help its Democratic rival through a deceptive edition . The Wall Street newspaper reported last week That the CBS parent company, Paramount Global, is considering resolving the demand before a planned merger that must ultimately be approved by the new Trump administration.
Sanders went to X on Friday to sound the alarm on the perspectives of an agreement.
“It is possible that CBS is reaching a legal agreement with Trump because he did not like how a campaign interview with Kamala was edited. Really?” Sanders reacted. “If the CBS yields, the belief that we have an independent medium protected by the first amendment will be undermined.”
“CBS: Stay firm. Support the Constitution,” added the progressive legislator.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., Urges CBS News not to “yield” before President Trump, since, as reported, his parent company, Paramount Global, is reaching an agreement with the 47th Commander in Chief. (Charly triballeau/AFP via getty images)
CBS News did not immediately respond to Fox News DigitalRequest for comments.
Trump’s demand against CBS News arises from an exchange that Harris had with the “60 minute” correspondent, Bill Whitaker. In a previous clip that was issued in “Face the Nation”, Harris was asked why it seemed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamín Netanyahu was not listening to the United States.
“Well, Bill, the work we have done has resulted in a series of movements in that region by Israel that were driven or result of many things, including our defense of what should happen in the region.” Harris replied In the “face the nation” clip.
The conservatives made fun of Harris for offering a long “word salad” to Whitaker. But when that same question came to the air the next night in the Electoral Special in star hours, A shorter and more focused answer The vice president continued.
“We are not going to stop doing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about our position on the need for this war to end,” Harris said in the special schedule.
Bill Whitaker’s interview in “60 minutes” with Vice President Kamala Harris is at the center of a high -risk demand initiated by President Trump. (Screen captures/news CBS)
Critics accused CBS News to edit Harris’s “word salad” response To protect the vice president from a greater reaction, and there were calls for the chain to publish the complete transcription after it only shared transcripts of what had been transmitted.
“To hide the weakness of the ‘Word Salad’ of Kamala, CBS used its national platform in 60 minute to cross the line between the exercise of the trial when informing and the deceptive manipulation of the news,” says the demand.
Trump’s lawyers argued that the editions were made in an effort to “try to tip the balance in favor of the Democratic Party as the heated presidential elections of 2024, which President Trump leads, approaches his conclusion.”
“The partisan and illegal electoral acts of the CBS and the interference of the voters through a distortion of malicious, misleading and substantial news calculated to confuse, deceive and deceive the public,” reads the demand.
The WSJ reported that Paramount is considering reaching an agreement with the president while seeking to merge with Skydance Media in the hope of avoiding possible reprisals by the Trump FCC, which has the authority to stop the multimillion -dollar transaction.
President Trump filed a claim for 10 billion dollars against CBS News during the elections, but now, as reported, the parent company of the chain, Paramount Global, is considering an agreement now that has returned to the Oval office. (Anna MoneyMaker/Getty images)
The rumors of an agreement arrive just a few weeks after ABC News resolved its defamation demand filed by Trump, which resulted in a delivery of 15 million dollars and an apology in writing.
Trump sued the Disney owned chain last year after an exchange that his presenter George Stephanopoulos had with the representative Nancy Mace, RS.C., in the news program of Sunday morning “This Week”.
During the interview, Stephanopoulos claimed ten times different Trump was declared “responsible for violation”, when the jury in the civil case of E. Jean Carroll actually determined that he was responsible for “sexual abuse”, which has a different definition according to the New York Law.
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Although The challenging With the position that Stephanopoulos adopted from the beginning, his bosses in the mouse house felt otherwise. According to the agreement, ABC News paid $ 15 million as a charitable contribution to a “presidential and museum foundation that will be established by or for the plaintiff, as established by the presidents of the United States of America in the past.” In addition, the chain will pay $ 1 million in Trump’s lawyer fees. Stephanopoulos and ABC News also had to issue statements of “repentance” as a note of the editor at the end of an article on the ABC News website.
Liberal critics accused ABC News of “folding the knee” against Trump and sitting a badly precedent, something Sanders argues what would happen if CBS News reached an agreement with the president.
Brooke Singman and Brian Flaod of Fox News contributed to this report.
