According to The Washington Post, which tracked Trump’s (lack of) truthfulness during his first term, he lied an average of 21 times a day for four years, totalling 30,573 false or misleading claims. Respected historian David Brinkley called him a “serial liar.”
- Dan Rather and Team Steady, July 31, 2025
So.. CBS has made a deal with the Trump regime (I can no longer call it an administration) for 16 million dollars over a supposedly biased edit of an interview with then-presidential hopeful, Kamala Harris. If you have watched both edits or the full interview, you can join the rest of the reasonable world in scratching your head and saying …. “what?”.
To move on with life, CBS has capitulated to the tune of 16 million dollars, AND has cancelled the most popular late night show in television history, Late Night with Stephen Colbert. If you still have doubts, follow the money. CBS was poised for a massive merger of its parent company Paramount with Skydance Media to the tune of 8 BILLION dollars. The NEW owner of CBS is Larry Ellison’s son David – estimated worth of father and son is 300 BILLION dollars. Trump has gone on to say that he has been promised 20 MILLION dollars worth of airtime on the network – for free.
So. The ring was kissed.
And that’s just one part of the media control that the Trump regime is constructing. Note that this month (July 2025) as part of the unconstitutional ‘rescissions’ of previously earmarked funds – funding developed by and passed by Congress – the Trump regime has defunded public media (NPR, PBS), taking away the allocated 1.1 billion dollars to support ad-free, publicly available and unbiased media.
1.1 billion dollars. That money supported everything from Sesame Street to over 1,500 public media stations across the US. Lest you think that a steep amount that by all appearances looks like “waste fraud and abuse”, remember that ONE B-2 bomber costs us taxpayers over 2 billion dollars.
One of them.
TV – which I do not watch – is under the Trump regime’s thumb. Other media as well – just look at the book banning efforts by various Trump-cosy groups across our nation. Or look at Trump taking over the Kennedy Center for the Arts – and installing a conservative board there that will surely tighten a right-wing editorial fist over the productions that occur in that esteemed hall. Most recently, he is even pushing to have the center renamed after his current wife, Melania. And with the history of traditional center-of-the-road news publications NOT endorsing a political candidate in the last presidential race (notable the LA Times and Washington Post) for the first time in decades, again, follow the money.
Who owns the LA Times? Patrick Soon-Shiong. Est. net worth of 11 BILLION dollars.
Who owns the Washington Post? Jeff Bezos. Est. net worth of 177 BILLION dollars.
Who has been spending time at Mar-a-Lago? Read this list. You’ll see all of the names mentioned above.
What should a freedom-loving person do?
Support and read / watch / listen to independent news. Here is a list.
Fresh Eyes 