Schumer allegedly threatens FCC criticism over Trump’s ’60 Minutes’ interview

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Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., responded to President Donald Trump's "60 Minutes" interview with what seemed to be a authorized menace in an X publish earlier Monday morning.

Trump appeared on the CBS information program for the primary time since settling his lawsuit with CBS' mum or dad firm Paramount on Sunday night time. The sit-down interview was additionally Trump's first time on "60 Minutes" since Oct. 2020, forward of the presidential election.

Schumer referred to as the interview "unhinged" and prompt that he would file a criticism with the Federal Communications Fee (FCC) over the episode's modifying.

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President Donald Trump sued CBS Information and Paramount for allegedly modifying a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. (AP Photograph; Reuters Photograph; Screenshots/CBS Information)

"Perhaps I ought to file a criticism with the FCC in opposition to the Trump White Home for modifying his unhinged 60 Minutes interview. It would use the very same language Trump lodged in opposition to Vice President Harris," Schumer wrote.

Schumer's publish gave the impression to be in reference to Trump's unique lawsuit in opposition to CBS Information, by which he accused the corporate of deceptively modifying a 2024 "60 Minutes" interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, forward of the presidential election.

Nonetheless, Trump didn't file an FCC criticism on the time, although he referred to as for the community to lose its broadcasting license over the problem. The FCC criticism was filed by the Middle for American Rights, which argued that CBS Information' modifying selections "quantity to deliberate information distortion" and violated FCC guidelines.

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Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talking at a press convention. (AP Photograph/J. Scott Applewhite)

Fox News Digital reached out to Schumer's workplace and Paramount for remark.

Each Harris and CBS Information had been mocked by conservatives after it appeared that the community shortened a lengthy "word-salad" response from Harris that aired on "Face the Nation" to a extra centered and condensed reply that aired on a particular version of "60 Minutes."

CBS News denied that it took half in "deceitful modifying" of the interview in an announcement greater than every week later.

"60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to ‘Face the Nation’ that used an extended part of her reply than that on 60 Minutes. Identical query. Identical reply. However a special portion of the response," the assertion learn.

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President Donald Trump gave his first interview with CBS Information' "60 Minutes" since 2020 on Sunday. (Getty Photographs)

Trump sued CBS News for $10 billion in damages, later elevating the determine to $20 billion, accusing the community of "misleading doctoring" in favor of Harris. Paramount later agreed to a $16 million settlement in July.

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Although CBS Information and Paramount have denied any wrongdoing, sources informed Fox Information Digital that CBS has agreed to replace its editorial requirements, including a brand new rule requiring the discharge of full, unedited transcripts of future presidential candidates’ interviews.

Lindsay Kornick is an affiliate editor for Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions will be despatched to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.