President Donald Trump's legal team is threatening to slap CBS News and parent company Paramount with a fresh defamation lawsuit over a 60 Minutes segment that likened Trump to a "mob boss" and accused him of criminal bribery. "During ongoing settlement talks, CBS News and Paramount aired a new, defamatory 60 Minutes segment regarding President Trump's legitimate and necessary executive orders addressing unlawful activity in the legal profession, including election interference and employment discrimination," Trump attorney Ed Paltzik said in a statement. Then, during a commencement address delivered last week at Wake Forest University, Pelley compared "this moment" to the U.S. Civil War, the Second World War, and the Civil Rights Movement and defended the DEI initiatives that Paramount has pledged to end.
Author: Collin Anderson
Published at: 2025-05-27 21:50:05
Still want to read the full version? Full article
