60 MINUTES CAUGHT LYING: CBS ‘Journalists’ Lied About Trump, Tried to Air Hit Job Anyway

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CBS News is not merely biased or misguided—it is structurally corrupt and intellectually irredeemable.

As Geller Report reported yesterday, the “journalists” at 60 Minutes have been attacking CBS News’ Editor in Chief for delaying the airing of a hit piece on the Trump administration and CECOT.

The Only Way Forward for Bari Weiss at CBS: Total Purge

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Bari Weiss put on hold a 60 Minutes segment after being told—incorrectly—that the Trump administration had refused to comment. In fact, as Axios later confirmed, 60 Minutes producers had received substantive responses from the White House, State Department, and DHS but deliberately excluded them from the broadcast. That omission explains why Weiss pulled the piece in the U.S., concluding it was not ready and lacked proper on-the-record rebuttals from key officials. The controversy deepened when the same segment inexplicably aired in Canada despite Weiss’s order, raising questions about internal compliance and editorial control. Ultimately, Axios’s reporting vindicated Weiss’s judgment: the segment falsely claimed no response was received and appears to have misled CBS News management—underscoring a serious breach of journalistic integrity inside 60 Minutes.

United States Homeland Security Adviso Stephen Miller blasted the CBS show for sympathizing with 238 Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison in March 2025 under the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. The planned segment highlighted that 75% of the men had no criminal convictions and profiled cases like a gay makeup artist with a pending asylum claim, but CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulled it hours before airtime on Dec. 21 for lacking balance, such as an interview with an official. A federal judge later ruled some deportations violated due process, amid reports of prison abuses, while Miller pointed to victims like 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, killed by Venezuelan migrants. (GROK)

Weiss wondered why nobody from the Trump administration was asked to comment, and she (and the rest of us) were told they refused to comment. Only…that’s not true.

Between the lines: According to a source familiar with “60 Minutes” correspondence with the administration, the “60 Minutes” team reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News. None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece viewed by Axios. That’s not a “between the lines” issue. That directly reveals why Weiss pulled the segment in the US.

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For some reason, however, the Alfonsi segment aired in Canada, which Fischer viewed. It’s not clear why Weiss’ order didn’t prevent the segment from airing in another country when Weiss had ordered it pulled in the US. One has to wonder whether that’s clear to Weiss as well. Supposedly, the segment was transmitted “via app” to the Canadian distributor for 60 Minutes, but shouldn’t Weiss’ decision as the editor in chief of CBS News to keep it from airing have been universal?

What is clear is that Weiss turned out to be correct in her assessment of the segment. Weiss first responded to Alfons’s claim about political motives for spiking the story by saying it “wasn’t ready” for air. Weiss then sent a more specific memo to CBS News personnel laying out the reasons for the decision, which included the need to get principals on the record to address the allegations…Money quote: “Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don’t tend to be shy. I realized we’ve emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record.” Well, surprise again! According to Axios, Alfonsi did get principals to respond, including that same DHS spokesperson and more. Rather than include that input, Alfonsi not only lied in the segment about not getting a response, she or the producers of 60 Minutes misled CBS News management about it.  And now Axios has confirmed that, which shows exactly why Weiss got hinky after seeing the segment on Thursday. (Hot AirAxios)

Axios, of all places.

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