After one more CBS Information determine resigned in obvious protest, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) repeated his requires Paramount International’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, to not settle with President Donald Trump over his “bogus” lawsuit regarding a “60 Minutes” phase.
CBS Information President Wendy McMahon introduced Monday she was leaving her publish, saying she couldn’t agree with Paramount, the community’s guardian firm, on easy methods to proceed.
“Bill Owens, the producer of CBS’s 60 Minutes, resigned in protest,” Sanders wrote on social media, referencing Owens’ April exit. “Wendy McMahon, the head of CBS News, has now resigned. I say to Shari Redstone: Enough is enough. Do not capitulate to Trump’s attack on a free press. Do not settle Trump’s bogus lawsuit against 60 Minutes.”
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Redstone has reportedly indicated she’s in favor of settling Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit, by which he claims CBS Information deceptively edited an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris in October in a approach that might assist her beat him within the presidential election.
Redstone’s place is seemingly at odds with these of staffers together with Owens and McMahon, who each expressed grave concern concerning the firm surrendering to authorized stress from Trump.
“It’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward,” McMahon wrote in a memo to CBS Information employees obtained by HuffPost.
Owens delivered the same farewell in his memo from final month, writing, “Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.”
Earlier this month, Sanders spearheaded a letter from him and eight different senators urging Paramount International to not “capitulate to this dangerous move to authoritarianism” from Trump. The letter counseled the corporate for initially submitting two motions to dismiss Trump’s case, however stated the motion towards a settlement is “a grave mistake.”
“Rewarding Trump with tens of millions of dollars for filing this bogus lawsuit will not cause him to back down on his war against the media and a free press,” the senators wrote. “It will only embolden him to shake down, extort and silence CBS and other media outlets that have the courage to report about issues that Trump may not like.”
