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Trump Shuts Down CBS over Story he Feared

December 22, 2025

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

  • The Format: This fiery solo monologue from the Midas Touch Network host delivers a scathing takedown of corporate media's surrender to political pressure, framing the episode as a urgent call-to-arms for independent journalism amid a combative and indignant atmosphere charged with righteous outrage.
  • The Format: A narrative story driven by one host's impassioned solo rant.
  • The Key Players:
  • If Just Hosts: The unnamed Midas Touch host dominates with relentless energy, bantering against absent foes like Trump, CBS executives, and "gangster regime" figures, while hyping viewer support as the real star in building pro-democracy media.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

The episode lasers in on corporate media's capitulation, Trump's media vendettas, and the human cost of censorship, weaving a narrative of journalistic betrayal and the rise of independent voices.

  • Topic 1: CBS Pulls Critical 60 Minutes Segment. The host blasts CBS for yanking a promoed story on Venezuelan deportees tortured in El Salvador's CECOT prison—dubbed a "concentration camp"—just hours before airtime, attributing it to Trump regime interference after the piece cleared all internal checks.
  • Topic 2: Trump's Relentless Attacks on CBS. Detailing Trump's social media rants, lawsuit settlements (like the $16M Kamala Harris edit payout), and demands for

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (01:00) **CBS Capitulation to Trump Regime: Overview**
  • 2 (01:55) **60 Minutes Pulls Deportees Story from El Salvador's CECOT Prison**
  • 3 (02:47) **Atrocities at CECOT: Crimes Against Humanity**
  • 4 (04:03) **Trump Attacks CBS After Marjorie Taylor Greene Interview**
  • 5 (05:16) **CBS Executive Exodus Amid Capitulation**
  • 6 (07:13) **FCC Clears Paramount Merger Post-Settlement**
  • 7 (07:57) **Trump's Recent Rants on CBS Ownership**

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Show Notes

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump conspiring with CBS Editor-In-Chief Bari Weiss to shutdown and cancel a 60 minutes episode that was critical of Trump’s handling of migrants sent to El Salvador.

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