CNNs Jake Tapper rips Shari Redstone for hoisting white flag in looking to settle Trumps $10B 60 Minutes suit

CNN’s Jake Tapper slammed Paramount Global and its controlling shareholder Shari Redstone for “hoisting a white flag of surrender” in looking to settle a $10 billion lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris that critics claim was deceptively edited.Tapper made the comment during a monologue on his daily news show “The Lead” in which he described the controversy as one that “any American who values a free and independent press should care about, including Trump supporters who should not like the precedent that is being set.”“For Paramount to settle this suit would be hoisting a white flag of surrender,” Tapper said.“It would be the network of Edward R.

Murrow, at the behest of its owners, saying: ‘We will not speak truth to power.We will acquiesce to power at the expense of truth.”Tapper said that Trump’s lawsuits against media outlets were a “dangerous escalation” designed to intimidate journalists and to deter them from saying and writing critical things about the president.He quoted a CBS source as telling him that “everyone expects Shari settles.”“She is not concerned about her legacy [or] democracy or the work we do,” the source told Tapper.

“It’s only about the deal.Her pocketbook.”“Let’s call it what it is…it’s a bribe,” the CBS source told Tapper.During the October interview with the CBS news magazine, Harris gave a rambling 179-word answer on Israel that “60 Minutes” cut to just 20 words, according to transcripts released Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission.CBS aired the fuller version on its Sunday morning show “Face the Nation” as part of a promo for the “60 Minutes” broadcast that aired later that night.

But the interview that aired on “60 Minutes” was a more condensed version — prompting social media users to allege that something nefarious was afoot.The FCC says it’s investigating CBS for possible election inter...