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Trump & Company= Callousness Personified
It is hard to understand
Paramount is paying Trump $16 million in a 60 Minutes settlement. Trump sued CBS over a Kamala Harris interview they claimed was unfairly edited in favor of Harris. The NY Times writes, “The deal is the clearest sign yet that Mr. Trump’s ability to intimidate major American institutions extends to the media industry. Many lawyers had dismissed Mr. Trump’s lawsuit as baseless and believed that CBS would have ultimately prevailed in court, in part because the network did not report anything factually inaccurate, and the First Amendment gives publishers wide leeway to determine how to present information.” Paramount is doing this because they want to sell the company to Skydance, which requires the Trump administration’s approval. The size of this settlement is the same amount ABC agreed to pay Trump in a lawsuit involving the anchor George Stephanapolous.
Trump is witholding nearly $7 Billion from schools, with no explanation. This is money that was allocated by Congress. He can’t do that.
Yesterday, on the day his big bill was being voted on, Trump visited Florida at a site he has deisignated to become a detention center for immigrants in large numbers. The Attorney General of Florida nicknamed it “Alligator Alcatraz.” His bill allocates an incredible amoung of money, $175 billion, to…
