Jake Tapper didn’t mince words in denouncing President Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News over a “60 Minutes” segment, which Paramount Global settled by paying Trump $16 million.

“I will say this proudly underneath the Paramount+ banner, which is — that lawsuit was bullshit against ’60 Minutes,'” Tapper said Thursday at Variety & Rolling Stone’s Truth Seekers Summit in New York, referring to the Paramount-owned streamer’s sponsorship of the event.

The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent was interviewed on stage by Variety Co-Editor-in-Chief Ramin Setoodeh. Tapper said that “editing is done all the time” in TV news and “there was no bias” with the “60 Minutes” editing of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris (who was Trump’s rival in the 2024 election).

Tapper said

See Full Page