Donald Trump strikes again in CBS and ’60 minutes’ and asks the FCC chair to “impose the maximum fines and punishment”.

Donald Trump hit again 60 minutesThis time it is upset by two segments that the news magazine ran in Ukraine and Greenland.

The president’s attacks on the media and 60 minutes are nothing new; What is different in this term is that he tried to found the authority about independent agencies that regulate the media business.

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In a post about Truth Social on Sunday, Trump asked the network to lose her license, and for his FCC chairman Brendan Carr, “the maximum fines and punishment, which is significant, imposed on her illegal and illegal behavior”.

The two 60 minutes The segments were quite standard for the news magazine. One interview with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed one interview. In this segment, Scott Pelley noticed that Trump “rewritten the story and wrongly said that Ukraine had started the war” before led a clip in which the President Zelensky described as “dictator”.

“I think Russian stories are unfortunately predominant in the United States,” said Zelensky. “How is it possible to observe our losses and our suffering, to understand what the Russians are doing and still believe that they are not the attackers that they have not started this war?

Zelensky then invited Trump to visit Ukraine to see what Putin did to the country.

In the Greenland segment, Jon Wertheim spoke to residents who spoke of their opposition to the United States that annexate the country. “Greenland is for Greenlanders, not for anyone,” said his Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

Trump’s recent comments come in the middle of reports that a mediator has been selected to try an agreement in his complaint of 20 billion US dollars against CBS 60 minutes Edited an interview with Kamala Harris. The president claimed that the network intentionally had Harris looking better to help her campaign, which the network denies.

The lawsuit submitted in the Federal Court in Texas claims that the network has violated the Texas deception law, but many legal observers find the legal dispute carelessly. Trump claims that his media company, the truth society belongs, was violated because the 60 minutes Segment loosened the traffic from its platform.

Nevertheless, Paramount Global, the parent of CBS, requests regulatory approval for his merger with the parachute jump, and he sees that the transaction receives the Greenlight of the Trump administration is the reason for a declaration of action.

Carr now started an investigation into the 60 minutes The Harris segment after a complaint that the network had violated the FCC’s “news distortion”. But the authority of the FCC is tight, and the agency admits that it is “legally prohibited to involve censorship or violation of the press -right of the first change”.

CBS has provided the FCC the unprocessed transcript of the Harris interview and shows: “That the 60 minutes The broadcast was not disabled or fraudulent, ”said the news magazine in a statement in February.

“When reporting on the messages, journalists regularly edit interviews – for time, space or clarity. With these changes, 60 minutes is always guided by the truth and what we believe will be most informative for the view – and work during the restrictions on Broadcast TV. ” 60 minutes said in the explanation.

Nevertheless, Trump’s recent statement seems to be an effort to continue to be under pressure, as it applies for approval through the merger. It is also put under pressure to enact Carr, to issue a kind of punishment in CBS, even if the network would probably contest every lawsuit in court under normal circumstances for reasons of first adaptation. Trump has tried to send the message that commissioners who do not support the administration’s agenda will be released because he repressed the two democratic commissioners to FTC last month.

During his first term, Trump suggested that the FCC obtained NBC’s license after beating the network’s news report. But his FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, defended the first change and said: “According to the law, the FCC does not have the authority to revoke a license of a radio station based on the content of a specific news program.”

60 minutesIn the meantime, since taking office, not every week has withdrawn from stubborn parts of the Trump administration and radiated segments.

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