Mary Trump - Donald Is the Enemy of the Fourth Estate

Last week my uncle announced they he was refusing to participate in the candidates’ traditional pre-election interview on 60 Minutes because they insisted upon—gasp!—fact-checking him. Since then, he’s been openly calling for CBS, the network that hosts the news show, to lose its broadcasting license.

Donald’s rage focused on two versions of an answer Harris gave to a question about Israel. The longer version was somewhat confusing, the shorter more coherent which is why we often see interviews in print prefaced by the phrase, “edited for length and clarity.”

This is standard operating procedure, but Donald claimed that 60 Minutes and CBS committed fraud, calling it “the Single Biggest scandal in Broadcast History!” The fact that Donald was too much of a coward to show up for his 60 Minutes interview is no doubt playing a role in his over-the-top reaction. But it’s also part of a recent trend that sees an escalation in the number of lies and the amount of disinformation he’s spreading.

In another post, he wrote:

CBS should lose its license, and it should be bid out to the Highest Bidder, as should all other Broadcast Licenses, because they are just as corrupt as CBS — and maybe even WORSE!