{"id":32686,"date":"2025-02-06T21:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-calls-for-termination-of-60-minutes-in-fresh-attack-on-us-media\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T21:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:06:28","slug":"trump-calls-for-termination-of-60-minutes-in-fresh-attack-on-us-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-calls-for-termination-of-60-minutes-in-fresh-attack-on-us-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for \u2018termination\u2019 of 60 Minutes in fresh attack on US media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President also makes baseless claim that USAid money has been illicitly funding news organisations<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has called for the \u201ctermination\u201d of 60 Minutes, a long-established fixture of US journalism, in a fresh onslaught against the media that also included baseless claims that money from the country\u2019s beleaguered foreign aid body had been illicitly funding news organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The demand that 60 Minutes be taken off the air came in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\">post<\/a> on Trump\u2019s Truth Social platform. It was the latest salvo in his long-running dispute with the CBS program over its editing of an interview with Kamala Harris, last year\u2019s defeated Democratic presidential candidate, over which Trump has lodged a $10m suit alleging \u201celection interference\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/06\/trump-60-minutes-cbs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President also makes baseless claim that USAid money has been illicitly funding news organisations Donald Trump has called for the \u201ctermination\u201d of 60 Minutes, a long-established fixture of US journalism, in a fresh onslaught against the media that also included baseless claims that money from the country\u2019s beleaguered foreign aid body had been illicitly funding &#8230; <a title=\"Trump calls for \u2018termination\u2019 of 60 Minutes in fresh attack on US media\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/trump-calls-for-termination-of-60-minutes-in-fresh-attack-on-us-media\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump calls for \u2018termination\u2019 of 60 Minutes in fresh attack on US media\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}