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‘Snowflake' Trump Mercilessly Mocked As His Newest Legal Claim Backfires Spectacularly
President Donald Trump's critics are seizing on two words in his latest legal filing: 'mental anguish.' The president is suing CBS News over a '60 Minutes' interview last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump claims the network made 'deceptive' edits and accused it of 'voter interference.' In new court documents filed this week, Trump's attorneys claimed the interview 'led to widespread confusion and mental anguish of consumers, including plaintiffs.' Trump and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) are the only plaintiffs listed in the filing. Trump reportedly turned down a $15 million settlement offer from Paramount Global, which owns CBS News. He is seeking $20 billion. Trump's critics mocked the president for claiming he suffered 'mental anguish' from watching a TV show: Snowflake. — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 29, 2025 America suffers mental anguish every day it sees Trump on TV. — Ed Markey (@EdMarkey) May 30, 2025 Can I sue because Trump causes me mental anguish every day? — David Doney (@David_Charts) May 30, 2025 He is so soft. — ThisBoomerHitsDifferent (@BoomerHitsDiff) May 30, 2025 Any "alpha males" want to chime in here?The "libtards are snowflakes" people?The "fuck your feelings" crowd?Anybody? No? — The Dens 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@FoxBrambleFarm) May 30, 2025 Donald Trump suffered 'mental anguish' from CBS News' editing of a '60 Minutes' interview with Democratic opponent Kamala Harris last fall, his lawyers are arguing in court papers-APWhat a snowflake — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 29, 2025 Ah….poor whiny baby TACO @POTUS suffers from mental anguish cause he's a psycho right wing lunatic — Some Velvet Blog (@somevelvetblog) May 30, 2025 These are the things that give Trump mental anguish. But he has no problem cutting USAID, which means babies around the world will starve. — Yankees101 (@SmartOne8927) May 30, 2025 Trump's 'mental anguish' — The Right Is Wrong (@therightiswron6) May 29, 2025 Wow, snowflake doesn't come close to describing Deranged Despot Donnie #TACOTrump. Strongman? Mob boss wannabe? HA. @POTUS@realDonaldTrump#TrumpIsUnfitForOfficehttps:// — Paul Rolfes (@prolfes) May 29, 2025 If he is that delicate — Diane Schulz (@dihicobra) May 30, 2025 A soft shell taco — Tamara McMillan (@wafflemum) May 29, 2025 Big baby — Jon MAGA is a CULT (@howsthat1959) May 30, 2025 Lawrence O'Donnell Makes Bold Prediction For 'Irreversibly Stupid' Trump's Next Big Loss 'How Does It Feel?': Jimmy Kimmel Gives Trump A Taste Of His Own Bitter Medicine House Republican Wants Americans To Get Aboard This Bizarre Trump Idea
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California Senators Suggest Paramount-Trump Settlement Would Amount to a Bribe and Harm Independent Press
Two California state senators have called for a hearing on the settlement talks between Paramount Global and President Trump, alleging that such a deal would amount to a bribe in order to obtain regulatory approval for the studio's merger with Skydance Media. In a letter sent Friday, Sens. Tom Umberg and Josh Becker suggest that a settlement could violate state and federal law, as well as have a 'chilling effect' on investigative and political journalism. The senators invited Wendy McMahon and Bill Owens, top CBS News executives who have resigned in recent weeks, to testify. More from Variety PBS Sues Trump, Claims Defunding Order Violates First Amendment Trump Lawyers Claim '60 Minutes' Harris Interview Caused Him 'Mental Anguish,' Argue That the 'First Amendment Is No Shield to News Distortion' in Motion to Deny Paramount Bid to Dismiss Lawsuit 'Comics Unleashed' Returns to CBS Late-Night Schedule Following 'Midnight' Cancellation The senators said they were at the beginning stage of an inquiry focused on 'ensuring that public-facing media enterprises compete based on content and quality, not influence, capitulation, or political appeasement.' The letter was first reported by Semafor. Trump sued CBS last October for $10 billion, alleging that the network had engaged in consumer fraud by editing out a portion of a '60 Minutes' interview with Kamala Harris. Though CBS has argued in court that the suit is without merit, Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone has nevertheless reportedly pushed for a settlement, in hopes that doing so will help expedite the pending $8 billion Skydance. Trump later amended the suit to seek $20 billion in damages. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Paramount is willing to pay up to $15 million, though Trump has held out for a higher amount. Three Democratic U.S. senators — Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Bernie Sanders — raised alarms earlier this month about the discussions, suggesting that a corrupt quid pro quo may violate the federal bribery statute. Umberg is a former federal prosecutor. In their letter, he and Becker, both Democrats, suggest a settlement would also violate California's unfair competition law, and expose board members to shareholder lawsuits. 'Paramount's capitulation would also undermine two essential pillars of a liberal democracy: a free press and an impartial, rule-of-law regulatory system,' the senators wrote. Owens, the executive producer of '60 Minutes,' stepped down in April, citing interference with CBS' corporate overseers at Paramount. McMahon, the president of CBS News who also oversaw local stations, resigned May 19, also citing conflicts with Paramount honchos. The letter invites both to testify as 'friendly witnesses,' suggesting they may be able to offer insight about the talks and pushback from the news division. The Paramount board was copied on the letter. Some ethics experts have indicated it would be difficult to prove a bribery charge in court, given the challenge of demonstrating an explicit quid pro quo. Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in June 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts?
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Trump Blames ‘Mental Anguish and Confusion' for Rejecting $15M CBS Offer
President Donald Trump's lawyers gave a very Trump-like excuse for refusing to accept $15 million to settle his $20 billion lawsuit against CBS. The MAGA president's lawyers claimed that the 'mental anguish and confusion' he suffered from a 'deceptively edited' 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was just too much to bear in a Wednesday filing, The Wrap reported. The interview was conducted in Oct. 2024, leading up to the 2024 presidential election in November. 'Defendants' conduct, including news distortion, constituted commercial speech which cannot by any reasonable interpretation be found to have constituted editorial judgment, and that speech damaged Plaintiffs,' Trump's lawyers argued. Instead, Trump's lawyers want CBS' parent company Paramount Global to cough up more than $25 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. 'The fact that such commercial speech was issued by a news organization does not insulate Defendants from liability under the First Amendment,' the lawyers wrote. Trump is a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit with Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, his one-time White House physician, who claims he was also 'injured' by CBS' conduct because he 'is a consumer of broadcast and digital news media content.' Paramount ripped the lawsuit as an 'an affront to the First Amendment' that is 'without basis in law or fact' in a March motion to dismiss. But the company now appears to be looking to put the conflict behind it as it attempts to push through an $8 billion merger with Skydance Media that must go through federal review under the FCC. CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon announced that she was leaving her post earlier this month after reportedly refusing to offer an apology to Trump as part of a settlement, WSJ reported. Paramount execs are also fretting over how such a potential settlement can expose them to future shareholder litigation and criminal charges for bribing a public official, a sources told the WSJ. Meanwhile other media companies and law firms have capitulated to Trump's demands in a bid to avoid being targeted by Trump's DOJ led by MAGA loyalist Pam Bondi. Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit from Trump in January after the social media platform suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots. X paid $10 million to settle a similar suit the following month. Disney has also shilled out $15 million to Trump's presidential foundation and paid $1 million in legal fees to protect anchor George Stephanopoulos from further legal action from the president.
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Trump lawyer: Pre-election '60 Minutes' segment caused president 'mental anguish'
While Donald Trump and his allies have long tried to present him as tough and the epitome of classical masculinity, the president himself hasn't done the myth any favors. On the contrary, the Republican, far from demonstrating strength and vigor, has an unnerving habit of whining and throwing routine tantrums. What's more, his lawyer's latest legal filing does fresh harm to the idea that Trump is the embodiment of toughness. The Associated Press reported: President Donald Trump suffered 'mental anguish' from CBS News' editing of a '60 Minutes' interview with Democratic opponent Kamala Harris last fall, his lawyers are arguing in court papers. Oh my. By now, the basic elements of this story are probably familiar, but to briefly recap, shortly before the 2024 presidential election, it's customary for the major-party nominees to sit down for '60 Minutes' interviews. Last fall, Harris agreed, while Trump initially accepted the invitation before backing out soon after. Harris' interview wasn't especially memorable — it was, however, recently nominated for an Emmy — though Trump has whined incessantly about it for nearly seven months, claiming that the program deceptively edited the segment. The Republican's claims have already been thoroughly discredited, but his hysterics have only gotten worse: The president last month accused '60 Minutes' of, among other things, 'unlawful and illegal behavior.' Trump added that CBS should lose its broadcast license and 'pay a big price,' while calling on the Federal Communications Commission to 'impose the maximum fines and punishment.' But in case that weren't quite enough, Trump also has an ongoing civil suit against CBS, in which the Republican is asking for $20 billion in damages (that's not a typo), based on the president's conspiratorial beliefs about the news magazine's election coverage. Paramount Global, CBS's corporate parent, has asked a court to dismiss the civil case, prompting the president's lawyers to defend the litigation on the merits. It was against this backdrop that Trump's counsel claimed in a court filing that the '60 Minutes' segment in question 'led to widespread confusion and mental anguish' among news consumers and Trump personally. The same filing claimed that Trump's status as a 'content creator' was damaged; the public steered clear of his social media platform; and the then-Republican candidate had to 'redirect significant time, money and effort' after the episode aired. Given that there really wasn't anything meaningfully wrong with the broadcast, it remains unclear why anyone would take any of Team Trump's arguments seriously, or why anyone would believe that the president suffered 'mental anguish' that warrants $20 billion in damages. That said, Paramount Global is reportedly trying to settle the case anyway, and critics have expressed fears that the company is prepared to give Trump millions of dollars, not because '60 Minutes' did anything untoward, but because Paramount wants the Trump administration to approve an unrelated merger deal. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Paramount Global recently offered $15 million to settle the case, citing people familiar with the situation. The same report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, added that the president's lawyers want more than $25 million and an apology from CBS News, which, again, didn't actually do anything wrong outside of Trump's overactive imagination. This ongoing debacle has already cost the network — in the last month, the head of CBS News and the executive producer of '60 Minutes' have both stepped down — and we'll learn soon enough if the tally gets even worse. Watch this space. This article was originally published on
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'Snowflake' Trump Mercilessly Mocked As His Newest Legal Claim Backfires Spectacularly
President Donald Trump's critics are seizing on two words in his latest legal filing: 'mental anguish.' The president is suing CBS News over a '60 Minutes' interview last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump claims the network made 'deceptive' edits and accused it of 'voter interference.' In new court documents filed this week, Trump's attorneys claimed the interview 'led to widespread confusion and mental anguish of consumers, including plaintiffs.' Trump and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.) are the only plaintiffs listed in the filing. Trump reportedly turned down a $15 million settlement offer from Paramount Global, which owns CBS News. He is seeking $20 billion. Trump's critics mocked the president for claiming he suffered 'mental anguish' from watching a TV show:
