Veteran 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley reported on Donald Trump’s efforts to strong-arm some of the country’s top law firms into doing his bidding on Sunday night’s episode of the embattled CBS newsmagazine.
Pelley’s segment pulled no punches in describing Trump’s efforts and reminding viewers that Trump is the “first felon” ever to sit in the Oval Office.
Make no mistake, the only reason we’re seeing this in the media now is because big business is getting hit. Mostly a shot in the foot with tariffs but let’s keep those boycotts up!
I assume the big boys lost more money from the tariff insanity than they made from getting their next tax cut. Losing money is the only thing they do not tolerate because it hurts them in their inhouse pissing contest on who can be the biggest societal parasite.
Absolutely. This kind of media is owned (literally) by big business investors. I know it’s obvious but it needs to be said plainly, mass media is the mouthpiece of the rich. It’s no coincidence that Musk bought Xitter and Bezos bought Washington Post.
They will only cry alongside us when they’re being hurt. They sure didn’t care until now.
I hate 60 minutes but watched that on YouTube. Anything to piss on trumps shallow ego.
Only nine years too late.
Still, hope this marks the start of a trend.
With any luck this gives the fat orange duck a fatal heart attack.
As I always say, that’ll teach’m.
They hurt TRUMPS FEELINGS? DEPORT THEM!
-Fuck Your Feelings Conservatives!
Good on Pelley.
Anyone have a link to th video?
I suspect it’s this one. Looks like 60 minutes posts their show online on their website.
Edit-- turns out they also publish the show as a podcast (which I prefer)
60 Minutes
That pesky first amendment comes back to bite again!
Extortion of law firms. What the fucking hell scared these businesses so much? Just stopping federal contracts with them?
And with that threat looming overhead, how do they not have the motivation to quietly resist? You want to talk about respecting the law and fighting back - that’s who needs to do it.
Except they bent the knee anyway. We know they’re just as complicit in the Regimes acts now.
And that’s just one issue.
A lot of cowards in powerful positions.
A lot of PAID cowards in powerful positions.
Lawyers and law firms lean very very heavily on relationships. Far too much honestly. Who your lawyer knows really shouldn’t matter when it comes to legel matters, but often it means more than the law. So being in the sights of the leader of the republican party really reduces the image of a lawyer with connections. Thus it is very very bad for business.
It’s a shit spot to be in, as basically all of them work cases in federal court. If your lawyers are physically prevented entry to federal property because some orange buffoon bans the entire firm by the stroke of a pen, that law firm is completely impotent and unable to argue in federal cases, even those that don’t end up in a courtroom. Judges chambers, pre-trial motions, informal meetings, etc all are impossible or vastly more difficult.
It was a very targeted and deliberate move to put these firms in a lose:lose scenario - give an absurd amount of pro-bono work to your abuser, or wither and die as your clients are forced to move to another firm:
The orders threatened to bar attorneys from where they work, courthouses and federal agencies and cancel the contracts of law firm clients. For example, an aerospace company could lose its federal contracts if it stayed with the firm. A senior partner at one firm told us the president’s orders were, quote, “diabolical.” “Intended to bankrupt [us].”
Man that’s such a small detail I glossed over, that they can bar them from courthouses.
I never realized until Trump came along how strong the urge to lick boots is in humanity - because if anyone is in exactly the right position with the capabilities and know how it these high-powered firms. And yet they’d rather supplicate themselves? Pathetic.
it’s safer, and already successful people hate taking risks that threaten their status.
Is there anywhere to download this before the taping goes missing
Assuming you use Linux here you go: https://flathub.org/apps/org.nickvision.tubeconverter
Ah, so more compromised media sources creating hype and WWE theater spectacle out of a crisis they helped create.
I am done with the “nightly news segment” Uroboros of creating massive problems then reporting on the massive problems they made.
Shut the fuck up with that.
Networks and even shows aren’t a giant monolith.
This is a good, ballsy move by actual journalists that is going to upset a lot of people and get a lot of pushbavk, even from within.
This should be getting acclaim, not…whatever lazy defeatest response this is.
You keep replying to me like it’s a campaign. If you like 60 minutes, just watch it.
I am not watching it because they are complicit and I don’t trust them. Nobody should trust media, particularly network media.
The important thing is that we use our standards to not engage with what is being said but to pursue purity in our information sources. We should start by disconnecting from the fediverse because you obviously can’t trust half of what is being said here.
Ah so more defeatist thinking then? Good job.
If moving to independent media or at least better sources like Ruiters, AP or even Ground or just triangulating multiple sources so you can get a better grasp of the truth before CBS helps create a situation they make money from while pretending to be “news” is considered “Defeatist” then yes, I am defeated and you should be too.
60 Minutes finally found their spine? They’ve been barely tolerable for a while now with poor reporting. Looks like getting attacked personally was what it took to hit back with actual accuracy.
Trump is the biggest piece of shit America has ever produced.
Richard Nixon has entered the chat
Ronald Reagan “Rookies”.
Nixon didn’t do shit compared to Donald
Because he inherited a mostly functional democratic society and not the shitshow Trump took over from Obama and later Biden.
The question is not what they got, but if they make it better or worse.
Trump measurablly made a lot worse. On a economic AND human quality of life level.
The point I’m trying to make is that Trump managed to make things so much worse because he came at the end of a chain reaction that started around Nixons era. Nixon was restrained by a robust democratic system and society and therefore his shittiness was aimed at sabotaging that system so his successors would have a free hand to ruin everything, so while the shittiness was much less obvious that doesn’t make Nixon better than Trump, just less flashy. We can’t understand Trump without understanding the more than half a century of sabotage of the democratic system by both sides of the aisle (more so by republicans) that led up to him, with special attention to Nixon, Reagan, GWB and Obama.
Well, you claimed a shitshow was given from biden and Obama.
From the perspective of me as a non-American reading american news and media that statement was simply incorrect.
That’s all.
Okay admittedly that wasn’t as clear as it could’ve been but I meant shitshow in terms of viability as a democratic society, so for example democratic norms, rule of law. separation of power and public faith in democratic institutions. Obama and especially Biden left those in shambles, which is why Trump has been able to get as far as he did.
I mean, sure, you could call it a shitshow, but whenever a republican is president, they make things even worse than a shitshow. 😛
Hahhahahahahahhahahaha then when was the last good economy? 2008? LOL
I never said anything about the economy. Reread my reply; I said “mostly functional democratic society”. Democratic norms and checks and balances were in much better shape when Nixon took office than when Trump did.
Are you high?
I will not dignify that with a response.
He’s got a point. As far as culture, norms, and sensibility, it was before Obama. However, he’s leaving out that we got to here because shit heads like him had a fuse blow in their brain when a black man became president.
STFU… u brainless twit.
Trump was handed a gift, TWICE, and turned it into a steaming pile of shit. Get your head out of your ass you bootlicker. Every Right wing administration in the last 100 years has sank the economy vs the dem party. That’s a fact.
Get your head out of your ass you bootlicker.
Reported for ad hominem.
Every Right wing administration in the last 100 years has sank the economy vs the dem party. That’s a fact.
Did I ever imply otherwise? More relevantly, do I sound like I care?
Trump was handed a gift, TWICE, and turned it into a steaming pile of shit
Yes, the gift of unpopular wars, wildly expanded executive power, a massive surveillance state, backlash to ineffectual neoliberal rule, etc. The march towards fascism started with either Reagan or Nixon, and not with Trump. Trump took a society teetering on the edge of fascism and gave it the final push it needed to fall in.
You think you make good points but you don’t.
And yet you’re the one who cancelled his comment. Pray tell, is it not true that the rise in American authoritarianism started in the late 60es, when the government started to act in spite of what public opinions thought about its action in foreign countries and wars? If not, can you please post any proof supporting this thesis of yours? Because it’s sure as he’ll that I, as many others, will never take your word for granted if you aren’t able to support it with factual information.
Take your head out if your ass and realise that American (like most of us in the “developed” world) have been bought with pearls and trinkets to subdue their reasoning capabilities and voices to capitalism and its venomous fruits. The sooner you accept this ACTUAL FACT the sooner you can start fighting the good fight against capitalism and its cronies (who may also be your friends and family; not all capitalists drive around in nice cars or live in big villas. Most of them are “momentarily embarrassed billionaires” or delusional victims as I like to call them)
He just further paved the way
Agreed. Trump is obviously the worst president in history, but Nixon and Reagan paved the way. There seems to be a common denominator there…
This is what every journalist in America needs to be doing right now.
(I wanted to “like” this comment, but it was at 69 likes, and I thought that was very nice) ⬆️
OH CAUSE ITS THE SEX NUMBER
THAT IS FUCKIN FUNNY MAN WOW
Its at 72 now you can upvote it safely
thank you 😔
I would argue it’s what every journalist in America should have been doing 8 FUCKING YEARS AGO, but no, they helped create this monster so they could report on it. They are a human/media centipede crossed with an Ouroboros eating it’s own shit. Support independent media, not partisan sources in either direction, they’re ALL compromised by capital.
OK, but this is also what every journalist needs to be doing right now.
