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The broadcast journalist who stood up to CBS News’ increasingly pro-MAGA bias is now speaking out about his views on President Donald Trump and the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

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Speaking with The New York Times in an interview released on Sunday, Pelley was asked about Trump referring to him as part of a gang of “stupid, crooked people that don\u2019t care about your country.”<\/p>\n

“Stupid? I can, I can take that,” Pelley said. “Stiff? Yeah, probably. Don\u2019t care about the country? I\u2019ve never worn the uniform, but I\u2019ve been in combat for this country, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I\u2019m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country. Please correct me if I\u2019m wrong.”<\/p>\n

Pelley added, “You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment. You become a journalist because you love the country. And while all the other descriptions, that the president used about me might be applicable. Not that one. There is no democracy without journalism. It can\u2019t be done. And that is why I am a journalist.”<\/p>\n

When asked about the future of CBS News in the aftermath of his departure, Pelley said that he hopes it will prompt Larry and David Ellison, the two pro-Trump CEOs of Paramount, to reevaluate their gutting of the venerable news network.<\/p>\n

“My hope is that the leadership of Paramount will say to themselves, ‘OK, this isn\u2019t working,'” Pelley told The New York Times. “We have respected journalists saying that there is a thumb on the scale for one political party over another. And there\u2019s a subtle political bias that I\u2019ve never seen at ’60 Minutes’ before or at CBS News before. We can save this. It\u2019s possible to land this plane, but right now, CBS News, in my view, is on fire.”<\/p>\n

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Pelley is not alone in worrying that the Ellisons are kowtowing to Trump at the expense of CBS News’ integrity. Earlier this month Steve Schmidt, an ex-GOP presidential adviser who worked for President George W. Bush, echoed those arguments.<\/p>\n

“There are many words that can be used to describe 60 Minutes: Venerable. August. Excellent. Important. Beloved,\u201d Schmidt wrote. \u201cBut since the purchase of CBS News by the Ellison family, another word belongs on the list: Sabotaged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schmidt added that the program has been \u201cassaulted with malicious intent by new corporate leadership that appears determined to gut one of the last remaining institutions in American journalism in order to satisfy a corrupt political arrangement with Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cThe destruction isn\u2019t accidental. It\u2019s deliberate. It\u2019s strategic. It\u2019s ideological. It\u2019s transactional.\u201d Instead of being a serious program where facts and credibility were valued, it has instead started to pride itself on pleasing the president.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is what is being destroyed for no reason beyond the insatiability of Trump\u2019s ego,” Schmidt concluded.<\/p>\n

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