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spies who lie....When Donald J. Trump sued CBS for $10 billion days before the 2024 election, accusing the company of deceptively editing a “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, many legal experts dismissed the litigation as a far-fetched attempt to punish an out-of-favor news outlet. Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president.
Now Mr. Trump is back in the White House, and many executives at CBS’s parent company, Paramount, believe that settling the lawsuit would increase the odds that the Trump administration does not block or delay their planned multibillion-dollar merger with another company, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. Settlement discussions between representatives of Paramount and Mr. Trump are now underway, according to three people with knowledge of the talks. There is no assurance, though, that they will result in a deal, and it is unclear what the terms of any such deal might include. Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, strongly supports the effort to settle, according to two people with knowledge of her thinking. Ms. Redstone stands to clear billions of dollars on the sale of Paramount, the media empire founded by her father Sumner Redstone, in a deal with Skydance, an entertainment company backed by the billionaire Larry Ellison and run by his son David. A settlement would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president, especially in a case in which there is no evidence that the network got facts wrong or damaged the plaintiff’s reputation. It could also cause an uproar within CBS News and among the “60 Minutes” staff. Journalists at the network have expressed deep concern about the notion of their parent company settling litigation that they consider tantamount to a politician’s standard-issue gripes about a news organization’s editorial judgment, according to several people familiar with internal discussions. READ MORE:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/media/paramount-trump-cbs-news-settlement.html SEE ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJJDwBV8OxAYOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.
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New Testimony Reveals Secretary Blinken and Biden Campaign Behind the Infamous Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Laptop
April 20, 2023
Chairmen Jordan and Turner Demand Documents and Communications from Blinken
WASHINGTON, D.C. – New testimony by Michael Morell, a former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and one of the 51 signatories of the “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails,” revealed that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then senior advisor to the Biden campaign, was the impetus of the public statement signed in October 2020 that falsely implied the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden was the product of Russian disinformation. In response, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) just sent a letter to Secretary Blinken demanding documents and communications related to the Committees’ investigation.
BACKGROUND:On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published a report detailing how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father, now-President Joe Biden, for personal gain with the apparent awareness of President Biden. The article reported on several emails found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that he had abandoned in a Delaware computer shop. The contents of the emails cast doubt on President Biden’s previous denials of speaking to his son about his international business dealings.
Within five days of the article, on October 19, 2020, 51 former intelligence officials released a public statement attempting to discredit the contents of the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden, stating that the story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” News publications immediately ran with the statement, with Politico publishing a story with the conclusive headline, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former officials say.” During the final presidential debate on October 22, then-Vice President Biden cited the public statement to rebut President Trump’s criticism of the Biden family business dealings.
NEW INFORMATION:
The Committees recently conducted a transcribed interview with Michael Morell, a former Deputy Director of the CIA and one of the 51 signatories of the public statement. In his transcribed interview, Morell testified that on or around October 17, 2020, Blinken served as a senior advisor to the Biden campaign and reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story. According to Morell, although your outreach was couched as simply gathering Morell’s reaction to the Post story, it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement.
That same day, October 17, Blinken also emailed Morell an article published in USA Today alleging that the FBI was examining whether the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a “disinformation campaign.” The very bottom of the email he sent to Morell included the signature block of Andrew Bates, then-director of rapid response for the Biden campaign.
Morell testified that his communication with Blinken was one of a few communications he had with the Biden campaign, explaining that he also received a call from Steve Ricchetti, Chairman of the Biden campaign, following the October 22 debate to thank him for writing the statement. Morell also explained that the Biden campaign helped to strategize about the public release of the statement. Morell further explained that one of his two goals in releasing the statement was to help then-Vice President Biden in the debate and to assist him in winning the election.
Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election. Although the statement’s signatories have an unquestioned right to free speech and free association—which we do not dispute—their reference to their national security credentials lent weight to the story and suggested access to specialized information unavailable to other Americans. This concerted effort to minimize and suppress public dissemination of the serious allegations about the Biden family was a grave disservice to all American citizens’ informed participation in our democracy.
Read the full letter to Secretary Blinken here. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-testimony-reveals-secretary-blinken-and-biden-campaign-behind-infamous
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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.
Gus Leonisky
POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.
HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE SINS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…
I POSTED THIS ITEM TO THE BENEFIT OF MY FRIENDS WHO STILL BELIEVE THE SPIES STORY... I CANNOT ARGUE WITH THEM ANY MORE, BECAUSE "THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW" AND "TRUMP IS A HORRIBLE PERSON".... AND BELIEVE EVERY STORY BY THE LEGACY NEWS MEDIA....
THE LATEST FURPHY IS THAT "TRUMP DID NOT SAY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILES OF THE CRASH IN DC..." HE DID — AFTER BLASTING THE DEI DIRECTIVE OF THE FAA IN REGARD TO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS EMPLOYMENT...
IS THIS A REAL DOCUMENT?.... IF IT IS, I'M A MONKEY'S UNCLE... I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS ONE....
MEANWHILE, IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE AIR CONTROLLERS IN WASHINGTON DC WERE UNDERSTAFFED, BUT THE MILITARY CHOPPER WAS FLYING TOO HIGH... LOOKING AT THE FLIGHT PATHS, THE AMERICAN AIRLINE PLANE HAD PRIORITY FOR LANDING, BUT THE CHOPPER VEERED RIGHT TO "FOLLOW THE RIVER" AS NON-COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFTS HAVE TO DO IN MOST PLACES, EVEN SYDNEY HARBOUR... THE PILOTS OF THE CHOPPER WOULD HAVE SEEN THE ONCOMING PLANE.
COMMUNICATING ON A DIFFERENT COM FREQUENCY, THE CHOPPER DID NOT GET THE COM BETWEEN THE PLANE AND THE TOWER. HAVING TO SWITCH FREQUENCY, THE AIR TRAFIC CONTROLLER ADVISED THE CHOPPER TO GET OUT OF THE WAY... NO RESPONSE. CRASH....
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YOUR MONKEY'S UNCLE SIGNING OFF....
BLINKEN SHOULD BE IN JAIL FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS, FOR DECEIVING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE....