As President Donald Trump continues his determined fight for truth and accountability, CBS and its embattled flagship program 60 Minutes are scrambling behind closed doors, terrified of the potential fallout from Trump’s ongoing lawsuit against the network and its parent company, Paramount Global.
Over the weekend, longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley all but admitted that the network is on shaky ground, warning that any settlement would be “very damaging” to CBS’s credibility.
In reality, it’s not a settlement that would damage CBS — it’s the years of biased, sloppy, politically motivated coverage that President Trump’s lawsuit is finally exposing for all Americans to see.
During a CNN interview Saturday, Pelley lamented the growing controversy around CBS’s desperate handling of the lawsuit, which stems from an October 2024 60 Minutes segment featuring former Vice President Kamala Harris.
The interview, riddled with inaccuracies and deliberate distortions of President Trump’s positions and record, prompted the President’s legal team to take action.
Trump filed suit against Paramount and CBS, demanding accountability for the smear campaign aired under the guise of journalism. The network’s attempt to quietly buy its way out of the controversy — reportedly offering Trump $15 million to settle — has already been rejected, with the President’s team making it clear they will not accept anything less than a public apology and at least $25 million in damages.
Unlike the cowards running CBS, President Trump is not afraid to take on the corporate media giants who have spent nearly a decade trying to tear him down.
While Pelley and his fellow media elites wring their hands about the potential “damage” to their precious reputations, the American people see this lawsuit for what it is: a long-overdue reckoning for a network that has abandoned the principles of fair and honest journalism in favor of left-wing activism.
Pelley’s own words during the interview inadvertently revealed the arrogance and delusion that now defines 60 Minutes. He told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that a settlement would be damaging to CBS and Paramount’s “reputation.”
What reputation, exactly? To millions of Americans, 60 Minutes is no longer a trusted source of investigative journalism but a propaganda arm for the Democrat Party and the radical left.
The network has spent years peddling false narratives about President Trump — from the Russia hoax to the Ukraine impeachment circus to endless distortions of Trump’s policies on immigration, energy, trade, and more.
The Harris interview was just the latest example of 60 Minutes acting as a mouthpiece for Biden-era talking points while smearing the President and the MAGA movement.
Even former 60 Minutes producer Bill Owens seemed to realize the ship was sinking. According to Pelley, Owens resigned in April because he could no longer tolerate corporate interference and pressure on editorial decisions.
“Bill didn’t work for Paramount,” Pelley said. “Bill worked for our viewers.” But if Owens truly cared about journalistic integrity, he should have called out the network’s obvious bias years ago, when 60 Minutes was systematically targeting President Trump with smear after smear.
Now, as the legal heat intensifies, CBS insiders want to pretend they’re defenders of truth — but it’s too late.
Pelley also whined that he wished CBS executives would publicly back the program. “You really wish the company was behind you 100 percent,” he said.
Perhaps CBS isn’t offering that full-throated defense because their legal team knows they’re in the wrong and that President Trump’s lawsuit has merit.
Instead of facing up to their failings, Pelley and his colleagues hide behind self-serving statements about journalistic independence while continuing to push the same tired anti-Trump narratives.
If there was any doubt about Pelley’s bias, his recent commencement speech at Wake Forest University erased it. The CBS correspondent went viral for delivering a thinly veiled attack on President Trump under the guise of defending “freedom of speech.”
Pelley dramatically claimed that “the rule of law is under attack,” that “journalism is under attack,” and that “freedom of speech is under attack.” The irony was lost on Pelley — no one has done more to undermine honest journalism than the very networks like CBS that spent years fabricating attacks on Trump and his supporters.
It is President Trump and the MAGA movement that have fought tirelessly to expose this corruption and defend free speech against the woke mob dominating the corporate media.
When asked about the backlash to his speech, Pelley doubled down, insisting that it “needed to be said.” But the American people see through the posturing.
The very media elites now decrying supposed attacks on journalism are the same ones who spent years spreading hoaxes, censoring dissent, and colluding with Big Tech to silence conservatives. Now that President Trump is fighting back through the courts, they want to play victim.
The heart of this lawsuit is not about one interview — it is about a pattern of conduct by CBS and 60 Minutes that has systematically misled the American public about President Trump’s record and agenda.
The Harris interview was only the latest instance where the network crossed the line. President Trump is right to demand not just financial compensation, but a full public apology.
For too long, these media conglomerates have hidden behind press freedom to avoid responsibility for their deliberate misinformation campaigns. President Trump is making it clear that the days of no accountability are over.
Even as Pelley claims his stories are still airing without interference, he openly admits that CBS has failed to stand behind the program in public.
This suggests deep internal divisions within the company — divisions likely driven by fear of what will emerge if the Trump lawsuit proceeds to discovery and trial. CBS knows that depositions and document requests could further expose their bias and underhanded tactics, and they are desperate to avoid that scrutiny.
Meanwhile, President Trump continues to lead with strength and resolve. By rejecting CBS’s lowball settlement offer, he has shown that he will not be bought off or silenced.
The American people deserve transparency and truth — not backroom deals designed to protect corrupt media institutions. And with the MAGA movement fully behind him, the President is once again taking the fight directly to the forces that have spent years trying to destroy him.
Pelley may lament the potential damage to CBS’s reputation, but the truth is that the damage was done long ago — by CBS itself. It was not President Trump who turned 60 Minutes into a partisan megaphone.
It was not Trump who allowed false narratives to dominate the airwaves. It was not Trump who abandoned the principles of balanced reporting and objective truth. That responsibility lies squarely with the network’s executives, producers, and correspondents who willingly chose the path of political activism over journalism.
As this lawsuit moves forward, the American people should be encouraged. President Trump is standing up not just for himself, but for every American who is tired of the media’s lies and smears.
He is fighting to restore integrity to our public discourse and to ensure that powerful corporations like CBS are held accountable when they cross the line. And he will not back down.
The message from President Trump is clear: the era of media impunity is over. If CBS and 60 Minutes think they can escape the consequences of their actions, they are gravely mistaken. The MAGA movement is watching. The American people are watching. And soon, a court of law may be watching as well.
