President Trump says CBS and '60 Minutes' should 'pay a big price' for going after him

President Donald Trump bitterly attacked “60 Minutes” soon aft the CBS newsmagazine broadcast stories connected Ukraine and Greenland connected Sunday, saying the web was retired of power and should “pay a large price” for going aft him.

“Almost each week, 60 Minutes ... mentions the sanction ‘TRUMP’ successful a derogatory and defamatory way, but this Weekend's ‘BROADCAST’ tops them all,” the president said connected his Truth Social platform. He called connected Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to enforce maximum fines and punishment “for their unlawful and amerciable behavior.”

The web had nary contiguous comment.

Trump has an ongoing $20 cardinal suit against “60 Minutes” for however it edited an interrogation with Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris past fall. The president claims it was edited successful a mode to marque Harris look good, thing the newscast denies. But determination are ongoing reports that Trump's lawyers and CBS' genitor institution are progressive successful colony talks.

Carr and the FCC person launched a parallel probe of CBS News astir the aforesaid case, 1 of respective that it has undergone that besides impact ABC News, NBC, PBS, NPR and the Walt Disney Co.

Despite the ineligible battle, “60 Minutes” has been unstinting successful its sum of Trump's medication since helium took bureau for a 2nd term, peculiarly analogous Scott Pelley. He traveled to Ukraine to behaviour an interrogation with that country's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, connected the tract of a Russian onslaught wherever 9 children were killed earlier this month.

In the interrogation broadcast connected Sunday, Zelenskyy said helium has “100%” hatred for Russian President Vladimir Putin for the penetration of Ukraine, and invited Trump to his sojourn his state to spot what has been done.

Also Sunday, analogous Jon Wertheim reported from Greenland connected what immoderate radical successful that federation are saying astir Trump's tendency to instrumentality control.

In his societal media message, Trump said “60 Minutes” was nary longer a quality amusement but “a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised arsenic ‘News,’ and indispensable beryllium liable for what they person done, and are doing."

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David Bauder writes astir media for the AP. Follow him astatine http://x.com/dbauder and https://bsky.app/profile/dbauder.bsky.social