“60 Minutes” is again in President Trump’s crosshairs.
Trump went after the celebrated CBS Information program following an interview Sunday with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), his as soon as ardent ally who’s leaving Congress in January.
Correspondent Lesley Stahl had a brutally candid sit-down with Greene, who went into element on her break with the president. Trump has referred to as Greene a traitor, which Inexperienced stated has led to dying threats to her and her household. Greene additionally stated the president shouldn’t be specializing in the problems most vital to his supporters and that a lot of her colleagues solely assist him out of worry.
Trump posted on his Fact Social platform blasting Greene and CBS Information, which earlier this 12 months paid him $16 million to settle a lawsuit he filed over the community’s dealing with of an interview along with his 2024 opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump’s submit stated the explanation Greene “went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the USA. (Definitely not the primary time she has been jilted),” and referred to as her a “low IQ traitor.”
However Trump added that his “actual drawback” with the interview is that mother or father firm Paramount allowed this system to air. Trump had praised CBS Information since Paramount was acquired by Skydance Media run by David Ellison, who alongside along with his father Larry has a heat relationship with the president.
Trump has additionally spoken positively in regards to the hiring of Bari Weiss as editor in chief for CBS Information. Weiss took on the function after Paramount acquired her heterodox digital information platform the Free Press. She met Trump when he not too long ago sat for a “60 Minutes” interview.
However the good vibes didn’t final lengthy.
“THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who simply paid me hundreds of thousands of {Dollars} for FAKE REPORTING about your favourite President, ME!” Trump wrote. “Since they purchased it, 60 Minutes has really gotten WORSE!”
Trump ended his missive by demanding “an entire and whole APOLOGY, although far too late to be significant, from Lesley Stahl and 60 Minutes for her incorrect and Libelous statements about Hunter’s Laptop computer!!!”
Representatives for CBS Information didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Greene’s falling out with Trump started when she supported the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein information. She has since sided with Democrats on funding subsidies for the Reasonably priced Care Act, has been important of the White Home coverage on Israel and complained the White Home has not centered critically sufficient on voter considerations in regards to the rising value of residing.
The one-time loyalist who was steadily seen in a crimson “Make America Nice Once more” cap, additionally referred to as out her fellow Republican members of Congress who she stated assist Trump out of worry of retribution.
“I believe they’re terrified to step outta line and get a nasty Fact Social submit on them,” Greene stated.
Requested if her colleagues are supportive of Trump privately, Greene stated “it could shock individuals how they speak about him” behind the scenes.
“I watched a lot of my colleagues go from making enjoyable of him, making enjoyable of how he talks, making enjoyable of me continually for supporting him, to when he gained the first in 2024 all of them began — excuse my language, Lesley — kissing his ass and determined to placed on a MAGA hat for the primary time,” Greene stated.
