The Tesla CEO, 53, spoke out against the CBS News broadcast after it\u00a0shared a quote on X<\/a>\u00a0from former Republican USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios, in which he denies President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s claims that the agency \u201cis rife with fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world!\u201d\u00a0responded<\/a>\u00a0Musk, who worked to dismantle USAID in recent weeks.<\/p>\n Musk then shared a clip of\u00a060 Minutes\u00a0<\/em>correspondent Bill Whitaker interviewing former Vice President\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/a>\u00a0during the 2024 election \u2014 an exchange which Trump has claimed was dishonestly edited.<\/p>\n \u201cThey engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election,” Musk wrote in the Feb. 16 X post. \u201cThey deserve a long prison sentence.”<\/p>\n PEOPLE reached out to CBS News for comment about Musk’s suggestion that\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0staff be jailed.<\/p>\n Musk\u2019s post comes months after Trump filed a lawsuit against CBS, demanding billions of dollars in damages and claiming that\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0deceptively edited Harris\u2019 fall 2024 interview in order to \u201cmislead the public and attempt to tip the scales\u201d of the presidential election in her favor, according to the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n In February, as a result of the lawsuit, CBS\u00a0released the videos and full transcript<\/a>\u00a0of its interview segments with Harris.<\/p>\n CBS also shared a statement saying that they decided to share the media in order to show that their \u201cbroadcast was not doctored or deceitful.\u201d<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn reporting the news, journalists regularly edit interviews \u2014 for time, space or clarity. In making these edits,\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0is always guided by the truth and what we believe will be most informative to the viewing public \u2014 all while working within the constraints of broadcast television,\u201d CBS said in its statement.<\/p>\n “… Each excerpt reflects the substance of the vice president’s answer.\u00a0As the full transcript shows, we edited the interview to ensure that as much of the vice president’s answers to\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>‘ many questions were included in our original broadcast while fairly representing those answers,\u201d the company continued. \u201c60 Minutes<\/em>‘ hard-hitting questions of the vice president speak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n A federal judge denied CBS\u2019\u00a0motion to throw out Trump\u2019s lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0on Monday, Feb. 10, after Trump amended his lawsuit to ask for $20 billion in damages instead of $10 billion, according to\u00a0Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n CBS has called the lawsuit \u201ccompletely without merit,” and argued that its edits on the\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0broadcast were protected under the First Amendment. Still, reports have circulated that CBS\u2019s parent company, Paramount Global, is seeking to settle the lawsuit, per\u00a0NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paramount Global is currently in the middle of a reported $8 million-merger with Skydance Media, which is expected to close in April 2025, per the\u00a0LA Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n Musk, a senior adviser in Trump’s White House, targeted the long-running CBS News broadcast in an X post on Feb. 16 Elon Musk\u00a0is targeting the journalists behind\u00a060 Minutes. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22121,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22119\/revisions\/22121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Elon](\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/9gn3AZPfX6snBS-KUFVcn-Gun9A=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(736x417:738x419):format(webp)\/Elon-Musk-sleeping-government-office-021225-tout-3c3f1f2ddf1c4722b6c4459327392ed9.jpg\")
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