Senator Bernie Sanders called the Redstone family for selling press freedom and democracy in exchange for a payment by getting the Trump government to approve their merger.
Sen. Sanders said in a statement:
The decision of the Redstone family, the most important owners of Paramount, to arrange a fake right case with President Trump for a report of 60 minutes that he did not like, is an extremely dangerous precedent in terms of both the first amendment and the extortion of the government.
The decision of Paramount will only encourage Trump to continue to attack, complain and intimidate the media that he has labeled ‘the enemy of the people’. It is a dark day for independent journalism and freedom of press – an essential part of our democracy. It is a victory for a president who tries to undermine and undermine the opinion of American democracy.
It is quite clear why Paramount chose to surrender to Trump. The Redstone family is in line to receive $ 2.4 billion from the sale of Paramount to Skydance, but they can only receive this money if the Trump administration approves this deal. In other words, the Redstone family reduced the press freedom of the press today in exchange for a payment day of $ 2.4 billion.
Make no mistake. Trump undermines our democracy and quickly moves us to authoritarianism and the billionaires who give more to their share portfolios than our democracy helps him to do it. That is more than unacceptable.
The current fight in the country is about democracy versus autocracy. It’s really about the billionaires versus everyone else. Billionaires are committed to the well -being of the country and undermine democracy to meet their own interests.
The so -called “Big Beautiful Bill” is the policy manifestation of the upward redistribution of national resources for the richest individuals.
Trump’s lawsuit was unfounded. In every other moment, Paramount would have fought with it, but the country was corrupted by Trump. In fact, this bribery and the losers are the American people and freedom of the press.
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