President Donald Trump on Monday slammed his former ride-or-die ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for criticizing his policies in an interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday evening.
In doing so, he suggested steps that Paramount — the CBS parent company that desperately wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery — could take to make him happy. Trump has asserted that he will personally weigh in on the Warner Bros. merger, whether the deal ends up going to Netflix, Paramount, elsewhere or nowhere.
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Trump wrote on Truth Social that Greene appeared “very poorly prepared” on “60 Minutes” and “in her confusion made many really stupid statements.”
“My real problem with the show, however, wasn’t the low IQ traitor, it was that the new ownership of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air,” Trump wrote.
“THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME! Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!”
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Trump’s post reignited his feud with the long-running CBS news program and its veteran correspondent, Lesley Stahl, saying that he wanted an apology for past coverage of the contents of a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden.
“P.S. I hereby demand a complete and total APOLOGY, though far too late to be meaningful, from Lesley Stahl and 60 Minutes for her incorrect and Libelous statements about Hunter’s Laptop!!!” Trump concluded his post.
He successfully extracted $16 million from CBS over a “60 Minutes” interview given by former Vice President Kamala Harris during the weeks before the 2024 presidential election. Trump claimed that edits to the interview — a regular part of the news broadcasting process — made Harris look better, unfairly.
Trump’s unprecedented efforts to pressure the country’s news media have been derided by critics who say it is a deep affront to First Amendment protections.
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