Trump’s Lawsuit Could Destroy Journalism
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business, serving the best Americano in town is up to you. But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to sum up. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new SumUp terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the SumUp point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best selling blends. Visit sumup.com.com.com to learn more. Hey, everybody. It's Tim Miller. I'm here with my buddy JVL, author of the Triad Newsletter, which you should absolutely be subscribing to. Go to the Borg.com to subscribe to it. We've got some news today out of CBS. More updates. Me and Bill Crystal talked about, you know, the latest on, you know, Disney's running fold with Donald Trump, where Disney settled with Trump over George Stephanopoulos and then Trump sent out a bleat over the weekend, basically saying, |
| 0:43.0 | that was not enough? |
| 0:44.0 | You need to settle with me again. |
| 0:45.5 | You know, so you see what you get on these settlements. |
| 0:47.4 | Anyway, on the CBS side of the ledger, we have news that CBS News president and CEO Wendy McMahon is stepping down from the network. |
| 0:55.6 | And a memo to staff, she cited leadership differences. |
| 0:58.5 | Quote, it's become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward. |
| 1:04.1 | I think we all know what that's all about. |
| 1:05.9 | But JVL, why don't you paint people a picture? |
| 1:08.7 | Boy, it's wild, isn't it? |
| 1:09.9 | So Trump has filed a lawsuit against CBS News in 60 Minutes, and Paramount, the allegation being that they ran an interview with Kamala Harris during the campaign. |
| 1:23.4 | And edited? |
| 1:23.9 | And edited. |
| 1:26.4 | So it could fit within 60 minutes, which is in the name of the show. |
| 1:29.7 | Instead of airing 90 straight minutes of just raw footage, they edited it to fit within the |
| 1:38.7 | confines of a 60 minute television show, which I assume has like, you know, 16 minutes of commercials in it. |
| 1:46.8 | Anyway, like one of the stupidest things you've ever seen, but of course it's not really a lawsuit. |
| 1:52.5 | It is legalized and ritualized bribery because what happens is the parent company. |
| 1:59.8 | It's a shakedown. |
| 2:00.4 | The parent company is trying to |
| 2:02.0 | have a merger, Paramount and Skydance. And this has to be approved by the federal government. And |
| 2:08.3 | having a ridiculous lawsuit is a way for them to pay the person of the president. again, as a private citizen. |
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