Trump alerts MAGA: 'They cheated, defrauded the American People'
President Donald Trump said 60 Minutes, CBS, and Paramount “cheated and defrauded the American People at levels never seen before” in a scathing post on Truth Social Wednesday morning.
Trump’s post refers to his lawsuit against the aforementioned media entities, which Trump has accused of election interference. During the 2024 presidential race between Trump and then-Vice President Kamala Harris, CBS released an allegedly deceptively edited “60 Minutes” interview with Harris.
The lawsuit claims CBS violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Lanham Act by editing Harris's responses to make her appear more coherent, thereby misleading viewers and harming Trump's campaign and his media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, including Truth Social.
Trump is seeking $20 billion in damages.
“The case we have against 60 Minutes, CBS, and Paramount is a true WINNER. They cheated and defrauded the American People at levels never seen before in the Political Arena. Kamala Harris, during Early Voting and, immediately before Election Day, was asked a question, and gave an answer, that was so bad and incompetent that it would have cost her many of the Votes that she ended up getting. It was a disastrous answer!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“60 Minutes and its corporate parents, in order that this not have a negative impact on her, removed and deleted Kamala’s entire answer, every word of it, and replaced it with a response that she gave later on to an entirely different question,” he continued. “The new answer was not good, but it didn’t show Gross Incompetence like the one that was removed by 60 Minutes.”
Trump accused “60 Minutes” of perpetrating a “Giant FRAUD” against Americans, the Federal Elections Commission, and the Federal Communications System.
Trump also accused the “Failing New York Times” of suffering from an incurable “case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME” after it claimed “‘people’ said the case was baseless.”
“The bottom line is that what 60 Minutes and its corporate owners have committed is one of the most egregious illegalities in Broadcast History,” Trump added. “Nothing like this, the illegal creation of an answer for a Presidential Candidate, has ever been done before, they have to pay a price for it, and the Times should also be on the hook for their likely unlawful behavior. It is vital to hold these Liars and Fraudsters accountable!”
