A scandal with “60 minutes”, Paramount and the FCC Mother Jones

It was onceBut not too long ago, if an American president were involved in a company that had essential business in front of a federal authority, the managing director is expected to keep all government consultations away for this company and that his political representatives would hand over the matter to career officers in this department. But not more.

In another chapter of the infinite history of the brazen Trump corruption, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Trump, Brendan Carr, supervises both studies by CBS News And The ongoing sale of 8 billion US dollars of the paramount paramount paramount network -while Trump is also suing CBS News for 20 billion US dollars, claims 60 minutes An interview with Vice President Kamala Harris deals deceptively during last year's presidential campaign.

Think about this confused fact for a moment.

Carr, a Maga ideologist who carries a golden pin in the form of Trump's profile, has to put the Paramount Skydance deal in order to make it completed because it includes the transmission of CBS circular functions. At the same time, Trump negotiates an agreement with Paramount about his absolutely reckless lawsuit against CBS News. If there is no firewall between Trump and the FCC-and there is a strong incentive to achieve an agreement with Trump with Carr at the Spits-, Paramount to receive the approval of Carr for this mega sale, the Mogul Shari Redstone's Family Holding Company, which checks paramount, and $ 2.4 billion.

Redstone itself reports that over 500 million US dollars will be immersed in if the deal is excluded from the Trump administration. She recently withdrawn from consultations regarding the lawsuit of the Trump CBS messages, but she has her wish that the company would achieve a settlement with Trump, certainly have some concessions of Paramount, including a payment to Trump and possibly an admission of misconduct. Many legal experts have explained that Trump's lawsuit is detailed and that CBS News can easily win in court. Nevertheless, by negotiations with Trump, Paramount showed that it bowed more than the fight while the approval is pending for the sale.

This is an Olympic conflict of interest. Trump via Carr can squeeze Paramount and Redstone and force a settlement of his lawsuit, which could lead to making millions of him to him. It is a moped shakedown: Hey Paramount, you want your billions? Make a contract with Trump. And Carr is his Luca Brasi – the executor who exerts the pressure to serve the criminal king of the Kingpin.

Carr, whose FCC also examines a complaint from third -party providers about the 60 minutes Interview with Harris, said this investigation could also be part of the review of the Paramount transaction by his agency. This complaint was submitted by the Center for American Rights, a right -wing outfit, which was led by a former advisor to the unique GOP Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. Carr's statement has certainly sent a clear message: unless Paramount deals with Trump's ridiculous claim that this is 60 minutes The FCC is celebrated by processing the Harris interview “election mixture” and becomes the deal Paramount SkyDance Deal Mermaid.

Carr has also suggested that he could kill Paramount sales unless the company eliminates its DEI efforts. He said Bloomberg in March: “All companies looking for a approval of the FCC would encourage them to be busy to end any kind of sterile forms of the discrimination.” In February, the co-CEOs of Paramount-George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins-an employee, who find that the company would deduct its DEI goals. In his interview with Bloomberg, Carr said that the FCC's business would ensure that a company had actually made its DEI programs profound.

This threesome from Trump-Car-Paramount is lazy and comes in the middle of an orgy of the corruption of Trump administration.

During his second stay in the White House, Trump with a crypto company that he and his adult sons recently founded in Großbögen Karken, also when he is now responsible for the regulation or non-regulation of the high-flying cryptocurrency industry. Like that New York Times Recently reported: “Trump used his presidential powers in a way that benefited the industry – and in some cases his own company – although he had spent years as a port for drug dealers and fraudsters.” Its crypto company enables favor to search for favor, foreigners, influencers, companies, connivers and crooks, to pour money directly into Trump's bags. This week Trump's cryptocurrency business announced that a fund supported by Abu Dhabi would sign a 2 -billion dollar deal with Trump's crypto. That could create hundreds of million dollars for Trump and his relatives. And Trump offers people who buy their digital coin visits to the White House.

Trump's family business is involved in several business qualifications in overseas with companies that are associated with governments with which he regularly has to do as president. A few days ago, the Trump organization announced a company with a company in the Qatarian government to develop a golf course and a luxury home project-two weeks before Trump should travel to Qatar. His helpers have pushed themselves to bring the British Open golf tournament to a Trump Resort in Scotland. Trump uses his office to advertise his social media company for loss of money that Donald Trump paid Jr. $ 813,000 (or almost a quarter of his turnover last year) to appear at board meetings and is currently beginning to develop financial products for Peddle. Trump has distributed pardons to campaign donors. He used the White House to sell cars for Elon Musks Tesla.

There is much more. The conclusion is that Trump treats the White House as an extension of his business empire. Any reference to such self -help or dodgy business of shenanigans from a president or vice president was widespread outrage. Before becoming president, Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm under the control of a blind trust. Bill Clinton's presidency was affected by a scandal storm due to a modest investment in a land contract in Arkansas. When Dick Cheney was Vice President Bush, Halliburton, a gigantic military entrepreneur, triggered controversy. Critics wondered whether the Bush-Scheney government offered the company in which Cheney worked as a CEO of the reference treatment.

These episodes fade in comparison to what Trump pulls off. The paramount scheme should be a full-fledged scandal. As for all other corruption files that Trump fought continuously. But everyone distracts from each other, and Trump's obvious ethics violations and his bad business have become the new normal. They are reported diligently by the media, but they have not yet become BFDs with political consequences for Trump and his Republican comrades.

Last month Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 minutes Anyone who had worked on the show for 26 years stepped back to protest the content of the program of the program against Paramounts – a change of the company that was probably driven by his wish to appease Trump and Carr. And in the show itself, the correspondent Scott Pelley made a comment on the support of Owens and found that Paramount threatened independence that honest journalism requires “. This was a public embarrassment for Paramount, but it didn't seem to change his efforts to achieve a deal with Trump so that its owners can banish billions.

All of this stinks. Nevertheless, the Trump-Car capers do not seem to give roadblocks. And with all the chaos and the crisis caused by Trump, Muschus and their henchmen, this racket is hardly noticeable. Trump's Mobification of the US government is within sight – and without end in sight.