Summary

60 Minutes plans to enrage Donald Trump Sunday with an episode bashing his intimidation efforts—despite being in a legal battle with the president themselves.

“Now in the White House, Trump is using executive orders to target some of the biggest law firms in the country that he accuses of ‘weaponizing’ the justice system against him.”

The drama between Donald Trump and CBS has heated up in recent weeks after the show’s executive producer, Bill Owens, abruptly quit after 37 years, accusing CBS executives of interfering with the program and pandering to Trump amid his $20 billion lawsuit.

CBS and Trump’s settlement discussions have taken place as Paramount Global seeks the president’s approval of its merger with Skydance, an American media production company.

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      nah, Trump is a rage-powered sack of IOUs badly arranged to resemble a real human being. If you want to get rid of Trump, you have to try to delight him and remove his power source. All of his cabinet and several world leaders are trying more an more openly to kill him this way. The true unsung heroes of our time!

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    Drumple Thin-Skin has a meltdown over everything. This is like saying tomorrow is going to happen.

    Weak. And old.

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      This entire story is another stupid distraction designed to hook the emotions of both sides of the political spectrum for views. Anyone who gets engaged with these kinds of stories, no matter what side you’re on, are being victimized by manipulative media trying to drive up views for advertiser revenue.

      We need to burn our entire capitalistic, profit-driven media hellscape to the ground and make something new that has actual oversight and regulation.

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        Nah this is 60 minutes putting pressure on their new handlers to not squash the segment. Now everyone knows it’s coming, and if it doesn’t air people will notice. I think it’s a wise move.

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    Sorry, CBS executives have bent the knee to the traitors, there is no way they will allow anything embarrassing on the air. Daily Beast is delusional and will say anything to get the clicks of Americans who have lost faith in their country.

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      This is the KGB handbook in effect.

      Spend enough time amplifying the loudest, worst takes on both sides of any and every social and political issue, and eventually nobody knows what’s real, everyone is exhausted with the contention, and people just tune out and default to believing whatever the state tells them is real, because the alternative is time-consuming research, and people rarely read news past the headlines.

      We’ve been sabotaged and have the receipts, yet I still get angry leftists and liberals scolding me that this is conspiratorial nonsense, and it’s “problematic” to try to pin all our social issues on Russia.

      And they’re right, it’s not just Russia. It was also North Korea, Iran, China, and probably a thousand different smaller groups for assorted agendas.

      But nobody wants to admit how vulnerable they are not just to misinformation, but the ancillary effects of a misinformation climate.

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    This reminds me when big tobacco tried to muzzle them. It almost succeeded, and 60 mins, in the end, did pull their punch.

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    Im waiting for the V for Vendetta moment where a media personality gets arrested by a swarm of feds for making fun of dear leader

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    And it’s not available 24/7 online… why? I’d love to see the click counter on that bad boy.

    Edit: I thought this was the other interview. Okay, make 'em both available. The ad revenue alone will be tremendous.

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      The ad revenue alone will be tremendous

      And the obese orange Hitlerpig will take credit for it.