CBS president resigns amid '60 Minutes' legal dispute with Trump

Well, it looks like the corporate clown car at CBS just lost another passenger. Wendy McMahon, the big cheese at CBS News and Stations, announced she’s bailing on the network faster than you can say “abandon ship!” 

Poor Wendy is apparently not vibing with the suits at Paramount, CBS’ parent company, as they scramble to settle a $20 billion lawsuit from President Donald Trump. You know, the one where he claims “60 Minutes” played fast and loose with an interview of Kamala Harris to make her look less like incompetent and possibly even sober during her presidential campaign.

McMahon, in her goodbye note, called her time at CBS “a privilege and joy,” but admitted the last few months have been “challenging.” 

No kidding, Wendalah. 

Trying to keep a straight face while navigating Paramount’s legal and political minefield must’ve been like juggling flaming torches on a unicycle with a flat tire. She didn’t mince words, saying, “It’s become clear that the company and I do not agree on the path forward.” Translation: I’m outta here before this clusterfrack before it worse.

The drama doesn’t stop there. McMahon’s exit comes hot on the heels of her backing “60 Minutes” veteran Bill Owens, who stormed off last month in a hissy fit because he couldn’t steer the show’s direction.

Apparently, Paramount’s top dogs were sweating bullets over how the program was covering the Trump administration. Refusing to call him Hitler frequently enough to their satisfaction.

Meanwhile, Paramount’s big boss, Shari Redstone, is desperate to settle Trump’s lawsuit while begging his administration to green-light her plan to offload the company to Skydance. Talk about a tightrope walk.

And let’s not forget the cherry on this mess: Redstone publicly roasted CBS News last October after they slapped “CBS Mornings” anchor Tony Dokoupil on the wrist for daring to ask anti-Semite and fake race expert, Ta-Nehisi Coates some real questions about the Israel-Gaza conflict. 

McMahon told Dokoupil he broke “the preproduction process where questions are run through Race and Culture and Standards and Practice.” Redstone wasn’t having it, calling the reprimand “a mistake” and adding, “I think we all agree that this was not handled correctly.” 

When your boss’s boss is throwing shade like that, you know the writing’s on the wall.

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McMahon’s sticking around for a few weeks to hand over the keys to Tom Cibrowski, a 30-year ABC News vet, and Jennifer Mitchell, who wrangles CBS’ 27 owned stations across 17 markets. Good luck to them; they’re going to need it. 

As for McMahon, she’s probably already sipping a margarita somewhere, far away from Paramount’s circus. Can’t say I blame her.

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CBS pressured into returning Catherine Herridge's files

After CBS fired their best journalist, Catherine Herridge, they seized her files, all her records and her computers. She was in the midst of pursuing several stories regarding Joe Biden and his family, as well as other investigations. 

When Herridge's union, SAG-AFTRA heard what CBS did, they condemned their actions and demanded they return her files. The union said that this was a dangerous precedent and was a threat to the First Amendment.

The House Judiciary Committee Chair demanded to know who was behind her termination and all the documents related to her firing/the seizing of her files. 

They wanted answers by March 1st. 

CBS was taken by surprise by the blowback they received and released a statement that claimed they never actually "seized" her files and went on to claim that her office had been secured and they respected her wishes not to go through her files, and pinky-swore they didn't do anything that they got caught doing, and the cookie jar was already broken, so don't tell mom.

According to sources, who wished to remain alive, someone at CBS only boxed up Herridge's personal belongings but not her files. What does that tell you?

Obviously they were forced into walking it back and have now turned over her files, as the New York Post reports.

“Catherine Herridge’s union representative picked up her materials this morning,” a CBS News rep said on Monday, pretending it was all standard operating procedure, hoping nobody would notice.

“This was a standard HR conversation about materials in her office, which Catherine then referred to her union representative,” a spokesperson claimed.

Herridge reportedly faced "roadblocks from higher-ups" in her coverage of Hunter Biden, the drug-addled, whore mongering son of Joe Biden, and this put her on the wrong side of CBS president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews. The question is, was the CBS reverse moonwalk about the Biden crime family or about her wrongful termination?

As of now, it isn't known who dropped the hatchet down on Herridge; it may have come from Ciprian-Matthews, CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon or CBS CEO George Cheeks. However, a top CBS source said that neither Cheeks or McMahon were involved in the decision to hold onto the files.

As they say in Iran, "heads will roll," if it's discovered, because the public will demand it.

If CBS fails to provide this information requested by the House Judiciary Committee by March 1st, they may get subpoenas to further explain their tardiness.

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