’60 Minutes’ Airs Scathing Segment on ‘First Felon in the Oval Office’ Despite Pressure to Avoid Sensitive Stories About Trump
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60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley reported on President Donald Trump’s efforts to strong-arm some of the country’s top law firms into doing his bidding

Veteran 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley reported on Donald Trump’s efforts to strong-arm some of the country’s top law firms into doing his bidding on Sunday night’s episode of the embattled CBS newsmagazine.

Pelley’s segment pulled no punches in describing Trump’s efforts and reminding viewers that Trump is the “first felon” ever to sit in the Oval Office.

    • 13igTyme@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      He’s got a point. As far as culture, norms, and sensibility, it was before Obama. However, he’s leaving out that we got to here because shit heads like him had a fuse blow in their brain when a black man became president.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        13·
        23 hours ago

        However, he’s leaving out that we got to here because shit heads like him

        What kind of shithead exactly? I’m not sure what group I’m being pegged as here.

        had a fuse blow in their brain when a black man became president.

        That’s certainly part of it, but let’s not pretend Obama’s biggest contribution to the march to fascism was being a black man. Continuing the war on terror after Bin Laden’s death handily gets that honor.