Chuckee’s Ungloved : Schumer Threatens to Sue CBS Over Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview

Imagine staying up until the wee hours of the morning, with Donald Trump living rent-free in your head. 

On the other hand, Schumer has had five weeks off from work. Maybe his sleep schedule requires a little adjustment for his inevitable cave on the Schumer Shutdown. 

Trump appeared last night for an interview on 60 Minutes, his first with CBS News since winning a $16 million settlement over the show’s politically driven edit of a Kamala Harris interview. After watching Trump slice him up as a “kamikaze pilot” and a “basket case,” Schumer went on Twitter/X to issue his own legal threat. 

And it sounds as though Schumer really does enjoy kamikaze missions (via Twitchy):

Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview.

It will use the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 3, 2025

Ahem. A complaint for what, exactly? Trump sued Paramount and CBS for attempting to damage his election prospects in the final weeks of a presidential campaign, along with the FCC complaint. Trump had standing to bring that suit, although it certainly would have been no easy task to prove damages or malicious intent, but Paramount and CBS were at least worried enough about it to offer a multi-million-dollar settlement to avoid the risk.

What claim would Schumer bring? He’s not facing Trump in an election. He doesn’t have any standing to complain about CBS News practices in a news interview. But even if he did, CBS News and Trump arranged to publish the entire, unedited interview for everyone to watch, negating the core complaint in Trump’s filing with the FCC and his lawsuit. Trump and his media team pushed the entire video within an hour of the initial broadcast, in fact:

Here is how President Trump’s interview aired on @60Minutes, where it was condensed into just ~27 minutes. pic.twitter.com/xA31er2wY8

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 3, 2025

Schumer either ignores or refuses to recall why Trump filed the FCC complaint and sued Paramount and CBS News. After airing a teaser for the 60 Minutes interview with Harris that showed one answer on social media — and got reams of criticism for her answer — the show then reedited the answer to make it more coherent. CBS News then refused to publish the full transcript or the full video of the interview. That was the complaint Trump filed with the FCC and the core of his lawsuit against Paramount and CBS News. If Schumer filed a complaint with the “exact same language” as Trump’s complaint, it would amount to a legal non-sequitur. 

Amusingly, Schumer has flip-flopped on political pressure via the FCC. Four months ago, he lectured FCC chair Brendan Carr over “partisan attacks” on CBS News, not long after CBS News and Paramount settled the case:

Democrats Chuck Schumer and Ed Markey called on FCC chairman Brendan Carr to end the agency’s “partisan attacks” on CBS and to “cease interfering with the judgement of independent news organizations.”

In a new letter, dated Wednesday, July 16, the pair called out the agency for an “outrageous abuse” of its enforcement powers by making CBS turn over the transcript and camera footage of the “60 Minutes” Kamala Harris interview, which was subsequently opened up to a public comment period as part of an investigation into allegations of “news distortion” that ended on March 24.

At the same time, the letter knocked the FCC’s “political double standard” by not acting on Fox News’ “selective editing” of a June 2024 interview with then-candidate Donald Trump , which they said “appeared to be far more misleading” when he was asked about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

“The selective editing of the Trump interview led viewers to believe that Trump unqualifiedly supported the files’ release when in reality he equivocated,” Schumer and Markey wrote. “Yet, when CBS made editorial decisions around a ’60 Minutes’ interview with then-Vice President candidate Kamala Harris in October 2024 that had no effect on its content, the Federal Communications Commission opened an inquiry.”

I get this as a tu quoque political strategy, but that made more sense in July than it does now. At the time, there was an actual contrasting incident (although mischaracterized by Schumer and Markey), but Paramount’s settlement had already mooted it. They paid $16 million, which — while Paramount was careful to avoid admitting liability — clearly validated Trump’s claim. 

This time around, it just sounds like Schumer’s whining about Trump getting a 60 Minutes interview at all, and is shadowboxing his own obsession without a punch landing, even on air. There is no tu quoque for a complaint, and everyone has been transparent. Imagine lying awake at 1 in the morning just to fantasize about Donald Trump. What an absolute clown. 

Update: If you don’t get the headline reference, well … you missed out on one of the best hits of 1979, by an artist that was way ahead of her time.

Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is still here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.

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