Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., Is insisting on CBS News in order not to admit to the president Donald Trump While the network is said to be considering a settlement to put an end to the legal fight with the 47th supreme commander.
In October, Trump made a lawsuit worth $ 10 billion against CBS News for election interference due to the handling of the “60 minutes” interview with vice-president Kamala Harris, accusing the network of helping his democratic rival through misleading editors. The Wall Street Journal reported last week That CBS mother company Paramount Global is considering setting the court case prior to a planned merger that ultimately must be approved by the new Trump government.
Sanders went to X on Friday to raise an alarm about the prospects at a settlement.
“Statistics Netherlands could reach a legal settlement with Trump, because he didn’t like how a campaign interview with Kamala was mounted. Really?” Sanders responded. “If CBS collapses, the conviction that we have independent media that are protected by the first amendment is undermined.”
“CBS: Stay steadfast. Support the Constitution, “the progressive legislator added.
Trump sues CBS News for $ 10 billion for ‘misleading doctor’ by Harris ”60 minutes’ interview
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., Is insisting on CBS News in order not to admit President Trump, since paramount Paramount Global has reportedly made a settlement with the 47th supreme commander. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
CBS News did not respond immediately Fox News DigitalThe request for comments.
Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News stems from a conversation that Harris had with ’60 minutes’ correspondent Bill Whitaker. In a preview clip that was broadcast on ‘Face the Nation’, Harris was asked why it seemed as if the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not listen to the US
“Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very strongly inspired by whether the result of many things were, including our plea for what needs to be done in the region. ‘Harris responded in the clip’ Face the Nation ‘.
Harris was mocked by conservatives because he offered Whitaker a long “word salad”. But when the same question was broadcast the next evening in the Primetime election special, a shorter, more focused answer of the vice-president followed.
“We will not stop pursuing what is needed for the United States to make clear where we are about the need for this war,” said Harris in the Primetime Special.
The ’60 minutes’ interview of Bill Whitaker with vice-president Kamala Harris is central to a lawsuit with high effort that has been filed by President Trump. (Screenshots/CBS news)
Critics accused CBS News of editors Harris’ ‘word salad’ answer To protect the vice-president against further reactions, and there were calls to the network to release the entire transcript after it only shared transcripts of what had been broadcast.
“To obscure Kamala’s ‘word salad’ weakness, CBS used its national platform on 60 minutes to exceed the limit of exercising judgment in reporting to deceptive, deceptive manipulation of news,” said the court case.
Trump’s lawyers argued that the adjustments were made in an attempt to “try to get the balance in favor of the Democratic Party, now that the heated presidential election of 2024 – which leads President Trump – are approaching their end.”
“The partisan and illegal election acts of the CBS and the interference of voters by malicious, deceptive and substantial news removal, intended to confuse, mislead and mislead the public,” said the court case.
Wsj reported that Paramount is considering concluding a deal with the president, because it strives for a merger with Skydance Media in the hope of preventing possible retribution by the FCC of Trump, who has the authority to stop billion -dollar transaction.
During the elections, President Trump has filed a $ 10 billion lawsuit against CBS News, but now the parent company of the network, Paramount Global, is said to be a settlement now that he has returned to the Oval Office. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Rumors about a settlement only come a few weeks after ABC News has handled the defamation brought by Trump, resulting in a settlement of 15 million dollars and a written apology.
Trump sued the Disney network last year after an exchange that his presenter George Stephanopoulos had with representative Nancy Mace, RS.C., in the Sunday morning news program ‘This Week’.
During the interview, Stephanopoulos claimed ten separate times Trump was ‘liable for rape’, when the jury in the civil case E. Jean Carroll actually considered him liable for ‘sexual abuse’, which, according to New York’s law, has a separate definition.
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Despite the challenging The attitude that Stephanopoulos took early on thought his bosses in the house of the mouse differently. According to the settlement, ABC News paid $ 15 million as a charity contribution to a “presidential foundation and museum that will be founded by or for the plaintiff, as presidents of the United States of America have founded in the past.” Moreover, the network will pay $ 1 million to Trump’s lawyer costs. Stephanopoulos and ABC News also had to issue statements of “regret” as a note from the editor at the bottom of an article on the ABC News website.
Liberal critics accused ABC News ‘to bow the knee’ for Trump and create a bad precedent, something that according to Sanders would happen if CBS News would make a settlement with the president.
Brooke Singman and Brian Flood from Fox News have contributed to this report.
