Trump accuses Kamala and Democrats of 'paying off' CBS and other media in the 'largest scandal in history'

Donald Trump raged against the media and accused Democrats of 'paying off' outlets for much flattering coverage.

The president demanded that agelong moving CBS programme 60 Minutes beryllium 'terminated' aft it was revealed the web favorably edited its interrogation with then-Vice President Kamala Harris conscionable 1 period earlier the 2024 election.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the full, unedited version of the interrogation connected Wednesday. 

It instantly sent Republicans into a tizzy and led Trump to re-up his calls for the web to suffer its licence altogether.

'CBS and 60 Minutes defrauded the nationalist by doing thing which has never, to this extent, been seen before,' Trump claimed successful a station to Truth Social connected Thursday morning.

'They 100% removed Kamala's horrible predetermination changing answers to questions, and replaced them with wholly different, and acold better, answers, taken from different portion of the interview,' helium continued. 'This was Election changing 'stuff,' Election Interference and, rather simply, Election Fraud astatine a level ne'er seen before.'

Also connected Wednesday, reports emerged revealing that USAID, which was shuttered this week by Trump astatine the proposal of Elon Musk, paid $8 cardinal to Politico for employees' subscriptions.

Trump says this is further impervious of the 'biggest ungraded of them all' betwixt Democrats, authorities bureaucracy and the media.

He questioned whether these entities are paying different media outlets, specifically The New York Times, to prosecute successful enactment that helium claims amounts to 'election interference' and 'fraud.'

In al each caps station to Truth Social, Trump wrote: 'LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLLEN (sic) AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A 'PAYOFF' FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS.'

'Did the New York Times person money??? Who other did???' the president questioned, and warned 'Democrats can't fell from this one.'

Trump sued CBS News successful October successful a Texas national court, claiming the web purposely edited the interrogation to enactment him astatine a disadvantage successful the November 6, 2024 statesmanlike election.

The ailment filed by the Center for American Rights accusing 60 Minutes of selectively editing the interview, was initially dismissed connected January 16, 4 days earlier Trump's 2nd inauguration.

But Trump's recently appointed FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, reopened the lawsuit instantly aft taking up the position.

Release of the agreed mentation of the interrogation has the president fired-up each implicit again, and helium is peculiarly peeved with the mode CBS edited a question regarding the Israel-Hamas struggle successful Palestinian territory of Gaza.

The afloat mentation shows that portion Harris gave a lengthy reply erstwhile asked astir Israeli premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu, CBS lone aired astir 7 seconds connected the 60 Minutes occurrence with the statesmanlike candidate.

'[W]as CBS paid for committing this FRAUD???' Trump questioned connected his societal media website Thursday. 'Many different questions to come!'

'This volition spell down arsenic the biggest Broadcasting SCANDAL successful History!!!' helium insisted.

CBS released a connection connected the merchandise of the afloat taped interview.

'As the afloat transcript shows, we edited the interrogation to guarantee that arsenic overmuch of the vice president's answers to 60 Minutes' galore questions were included successful our archetypal broadcast portion reasonably representing those answers,' the web wrote.