President Trump targeted a familiar enemy on Sunday evening. It blasted “CBS Fake News” with “out of control” reports and called on the FCC to slap the network with “maximum fines and punishments.”
in Post on True Socialthe president attacked the network on Sunday’s episode of the longtime news magazine “60 Minutes.” It featured a sit-in interview with Ukrainian President Voldy Mie Zelensky and a segment opposed Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
“Almost every week, 60 minutes… refers to the name “Trump” in a dim and defamatory way, but this weekend’s “broadcast” supports all of them,” Trump writes.
“Hopefully, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), led by highly respected chairman Brendan Kerr, will impose substantial fines and penalties for illegal and illegal behaviour,” he continued.
CBS did not immediately respond to requests to post comments.
In Sunday’s “60 Minutes” episode, Zelensky left the White House visit in February early in a heated meeting, but urged Trump to visit Ukraine, claiming that the “Russian Tales” about the war were beating in the US.
“Do you believe that they didn’t start this war, witnessing our losses and suffering, knowing what the Russians are doing, and believing that they weren’t invaders?” Zelensky said there could be a reference to comments made by Trump earlier this year, implying that Ukraine had begun the war. Trump later reversed the course and admitted that Russia was the instigator.
“This speaks to the great impact of Russia’s information policy on American, American politics and American politicians,” Zelensky continued.
The episode also included reports from the Greenlanders protesting Trump’s push to take over territory. In a speech to a joint session of Congress last month, the president said, “I think we’ll get it. In some way, we’ll get it.”
Trump has long been blaming traditional media and denounced reports biased against them, but he has created specific targets from CBS News since his “60 Minutes” interview with former vice president Kamala Harris in October.
Later that month he sued CBS in the episode, claiming it was made apparently edited to make Harris look better.
Controversy broke out after the network broadcast a longer version of Harris’s answer on “Face the Nation” and a longer version of the more concise version in “60 Muthing.”
In an application released last month, CBS said: “The transcripts and unedited interview footage show that CBS is engaged in common editing practices.
CBS owners Paramount and Trump are poised to start mediation in a $20 billion lawsuit, The New York Times reported last week.
Meanwhile, Kerr vowed to quickly track the FCC investigation into the “60 Minutes” incident and recently declined the network’s bid to dismiss the complaint.
