Trump-critical documentary leaks after CBS spikes it

On 22 December, we reported that the head of CBS news, Bari Weiss, chose not to release a documentary critical of Donald Trump and his administration. Now, that same documentary has been leaked:

BREAKING:

Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See

Video (no paywall): https://t.co/olxQ4mRuZJ pic.twitter.com/F4KjOrOtAJ

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 23, 2025

Trump TV

First, we should explain who owns CBS, and why everyone thinks they’re motivated to protect Trump.

The guy at the top is Larry Ellison, who rose to fame and wealth as the head of Oracle. Oracle recently made a major push into AI, and is currently experiencing the bubble-like effects that all the other AI companies are:

🚨Oracle's risk of DEFAULT is SKYROCKETING:

Oracle's 5-year Credit Default Swap spiked to 128 basis points, the highest since the FINANCIAL CRISIS.

Credit traders are buying protection against Oracle defaulting on its debt amid rising AI Bubble fears driven by massive debt.… pic.twitter.com/dMC5oUXydw

— Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) December 3, 2025

The AI bubble is reaching its peak, with the largest data center funder (Blue Owl) walking away from a $10bn deal with Oracle, just as Broadcom gets pummeled post-earnings for showing no revenue from OpenAI, and CoreWeave fails to build capacity in time. https://t.co/ji9jzKW0WM pic.twitter.com/YMYKlbXlCv

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) December 22, 2025

The AI ecosystem is a giant circular reference pic.twitter.com/4A5y0VeMeD

— Exec Sum (@exec_sum) October 8, 2025

If you’re reading in the UK, you may be aware that Ellison is a big backer of Tony Blair and Digital ID:

“Citizens will be on their best behaviour, because we are constantly monitoring and reporting what’s going on”

— Larry Ellison.

Well, do you now see how a dystopian society is actually awesome? pic.twitter.com/rwjuH9wimW

— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) October 10, 2025

Ellison is also one of the people taking over TikTok in the US:

Oracle will control user data on Tik Tok in the US. https://t.co/bOGelAS0fb pic.twitter.com/gXILmzlCbt

— Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy (@GyllKing) October 5, 2025

It’s additionally involved in the day-to-day running of government when it comes to data:

Many oppose Larry Ellison taking over TikTok, but do they know his firm Oracle stores data of the UK Home Office, Ministry of Defence & NHS?

He offered Netanyahu director role & employed relative of the UK PM at the same time as bidding for the contract.pic.twitter.com/mcI4ImLsB4

— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) September 19, 2025

As if Ellison and his family didn’t have enough companies and influence, they also own Paramount, which itself owns CBS:

We’ve cancelled our Paramount subscription. Reports suggest the company’s new CEO David Ellison may be punishing actors who spoke out against the genocide in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/3mxGbPBy9P

— Sangita Myska (@SangitaMyska) November 7, 2025

🚨BREAKING: Larry Ellison called Trump and said the Netflix Warner Bros deal is terrible.

Trump listened.

Larry Ellison’s SON is the CEO of Paramount.

(The other bidder for Warner Bros).

Pure corruption. pic.twitter.com/N7r3GGVMDi

— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) December 9, 2025

The person they chose to head CBS is Bari Weiss — a Zionist opinion writer known for having universally bad opinions:

Larry Ellison is consolidating media power in plain sight.

He backed The Free Press, installed Bari Weiss at CBS, and the network has since bent toward Trump-friendly coverage.

Now he’s floating a $40B personal guarantee to outbid Netflix, not for movies, but for CNN and… pic.twitter.com/E4hO8gtPLi

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) December 22, 2025

This aged perfectly https://t.co/dZIOowUnMp pic.twitter.com/gcosrxJvcX

— Omar El-Ayat (@oelayat) December 22, 2025

When Weiss wrote the above, her point was that she isn’t a right-wing authoritarian, actually — the issue is people online say everyone is ‘fascist’. As the tweet above notes, how’s that looking now?

You can quibble over whether Trump’s administration is technically ‘fascist’ or not, but it’s certainly operating outside the law with the backing of wealthy interests — interests who seemingly employed Weiss to do their bidding.

Oh, and there’s worse too:

today is the six month anniversary of Refaat Alareer's murder along with members of his family, including young children, after Bari Weiss put a kill target on him in an active genocide zone pic.twitter.com/QfIDYK6qKc

— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) June 6, 2024

Pretty amazing.

While leading “Columbians for Academic Freedom,” Bari Weiss sought to get pro-Palestine Columbia professors fired.

While leading “The Free Press,” Weiss is spiking stories to cover for a president who’s sought to get pro-Palestine Columbia students deported.

— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) December 22, 2025

Leaked

As we covered yesterday, those involved in the documentary were immediately critical of Weiss’s decision to spike it:

60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi warns that @bariweiss is turning them into “a stenographer for the state” https://t.co/J96kuVOwjZ pic.twitter.com/2Bpc7Mm2oW

— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) December 22, 2025

While the documentary has now leaked, the Ellisons seems to be leveraging their influence to block it:

TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.

The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal. https://t.co/6xB1AsVqdQ pic.twitter.com/wDARBQmGnh

— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) December 23, 2025

BREAKING: CBS is now filing copyright takedowns to scrub copies of the banned 60 Minutes CECOT segment.

They didn’t just pull the story.
They’re trying to erase it.

That tells you everything. pic.twitter.com/wI8bSlUXAk

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) December 23, 2025

You can make up your own mind on whether it should have been spiked by watching it here:

UPDATE

I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment.

Here it is (no paywall): https://t.co/olxQ4mRuZJ https://t.co/EnpDcEQ4kL

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) December 23, 2025

Featured image via CBS