Meidas RESPONDS after CBS Gave Us MIDDLE FINGER

By Ben Meiselas

Hey MeidasMighty, it’s MeidasTouch Co-Founder Ben Meiselas. I’ll keep this short. I am pissed at CBS and their parent company, Paramount. They gave us all the middle finger. They forced out legendary 60 Minutes producer Bill Owens because he refused to bend the knee to Trump.

60 Minutes is on CBS, which is owned by Paramount. The controlling shareholder of Paramount is Shari Redstone, who inherited the company from her dad, Sumner Redstone, when he died at age 97 in 2020. Shari Redstone desperately wants to sell her shares in Paramount to a company called Skydance in an $8 billion transaction. The transaction requires regulatory approval from the Trump administration. Paramount and Skydance agreed to a 90-day extension on their deal to try and get that regulatory approval from Trump.

Donald Trump despises the coverage of him on 60 Minutes. They are fearless, diligent, and do some of the best reporting in America. Trump has frequently attacked 60 Minutes on social media and in speeches. Last October 2024, Trump sued Paramount, CBS, and 60 Minutes for an absurd amount of $10 billion, claiming their interview with then-VP Kamala Harris caused him pain and suffering under a consumer statute in Texas (Trump was too scared himself to be interviewed by 60 Minutes). Trump sued in the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division, to get a favorable judge on the case. Trump amended the lawsuit in February to change his claimed damages to $20 billion. Trump has also publicly directed his FCC Chair to go after Paramount and CBS’s licenses.

Trump’s goal is obvious. He wants to shut down negative stories on him from 60 Minutes. He wants to humiliate 60 Minutes executives, CBS executives, and Shari Redstone. Trump wants to use the threats of withholding regulatory approval of an $8 billion deal to extract a personal settlement for himself and make money, as he did with ABC, Meta, and others.

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