In what can only be described as a stunning display of media hypocrisy, CBS’s *60 Minutes* launched a politically charged attack on President Donald Trump Sunday night—comparing him to a “mob boss”—even as the show’s parent company, Paramount Global, is quietly trying to negotiate its way out of a \$20 billion lawsuit with the Trump administration over alleged election interference and news manipulation.
The segment, led by *60 Minutes* correspondent Scott Pelley, went full partisan hit job, accusing President Trump of using executive orders to “intimidate” law firms—an accusation so overblown it bordered on satire. Pelley, who has himself been embroiled in an internal war with Paramount executives over editorial control, echoed the kind of hyperbolic rhetoric we’ve come to expect from the corporate press.
“The fact is that these law firms are being told, ‘If you don’t play ball with us, maybe somethin’ really bad will happen to you,’” Pelley claimed, offering no balance or defense of the president’s actions.
If the segment wasn’t already dripping with bias, it took a predictable turn when Pelley brought in Marc Elias—a Democrat operative and key player in the infamous Steele dossier hoax. Elias, who now works with Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign, launched into a tirade calling Trump the “embodiment of everything that is wrong with the American political system.”
Of course, no voice was invited to provide a counterpoint.
Conveniently omitted from the segment was the not-so-small detail that Paramount Global is currently in mediation with President Trump’s legal team over a lawsuit stemming from a heavily edited *60 Minutes* interview with then–Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle. The lawsuit alleges that CBS manipulated the footage to mislead voters and protect the Democratic candidate—an accusation now under investigation by the FCC as Paramount seeks approval for a merger with Skydance Media.
Even more telling is the behind-the-scenes chaos within CBS itself. Just last week, Scott Pelley broke ranks on-air to suggest that the network’s long-standing commitment to “fair and accurate” journalism may be slipping. His comments came after the sudden resignation of *60 Minutes* executive producer Bill Owens, who reportedly quit in protest over Paramount’s increasing editorial interference—allegedly aimed at toning down coverage critical of Trump while the merger and lawsuit hang in the balance.
“Bill resigned Tuesday — it was hard on him and hard on us,” Pelley said during his closing remarks. “But he did it for us — and you.”
Translation: even the liberal media is now cannibalizing itself under pressure to appease the very administration it worked so hard to defeat.
Make no mistake—this is not journalism. This is a coordinated smear campaign from a media outlet desperate to cling to relevance, protect its corporate interests, and kneecap the one president who refuses to play by their rules.
President Trump’s war against the corrupt media-industrial complex isn’t just justified—it’s long overdue. And judging by their panicked reaction, he’s hitting them where it hurts.
