’60 Minutes’ warns about Trump’s threat to ‘the rule of law’

As his home company faces The lawsuit of President Donald Trump“60 minutes” broadcast a segment on Sunday night, which marked Trump with a threat to the legal system, the electoral system and the rule of the law itself.

Host Scott Pelley talked to several lawyers about Trump’s executive orders that target and punish law firms associated with democratic attacks on him. Pelley said it was “almost impossible” to find people to speak on the camera about the topic of fear of retaliation.

One of the few who spoke with Pelley was Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, who worked as a general advisor to the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign and whose former company Perkins Coie was in the center One executive command in March. Perkins Coie was a company that hired a company behind the infamous Christopher Steele’s file about Trump’s alleged relationships with Russia.

President Trump is looking for $ 20 billion in a lawsuit against CBS, citing an election to interfere with the “60 minute” interview last year with Vice President Kamal Harris. (Left: (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images), right: (Photo by Tasos Cathopodis/Getty Images), right: Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Among other things, the command called for the employees of Perkins Coie to obtain from their safety approvals and is forbidden to access government buildings. He also called for a termination of existing contracts with government clients.

Trump is cheering on CBS, ’60 minutes, “says you should pay a” big price “

Elias called Trump a “walking embodiment of everything that is wrong with the US political system” and suggested that the rule of the law is in danger if these executive orders are. Without that, Elias claimed, Trump could take over other institutions.

“That’s why the business community should worry,” Elias said. “It could be today that, you know, Donald Trump thinks he can take over the electoral system one of his executive orders. Tomorrow, maybe it’s the banking system. After that, it may be contracts. Maybe it will decide which contracts will bind, which contracts are not binding.”

He added: “Therefore, the legal system is fundamental to the functioning of our society, as capitalism works and everyone should have a stake in this.”

Donald Ayer, a former deputy Attorney General under President George HW Bush, also called Trump’s command “a direct attack on the overall functioning of our judicial system,” and at risk is the whole system of government.

Democratic lawyer Marc Elias attacked Trump’s executive command “60 minutes”. (Screen Snap/CBS)

Another lawyer, a San Francisco lawyer John Keker, spoke of his endeavor to hire a law firm to oppose and dispute Trump’s executive commands, saying that an alternative could result in dictatorship.

“It happened in China. It happened in Russia. These are legal systems that look like legal systems, but actually control dictatorship,” Keker said.

“60 minutes” did not broadcast a guest to be discussed in favor of Trump’s commands against law companies.

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Federal judge Blocked Trump command Against Perkins Coie, shortly after the law firm requested an order to limit an emergency that prevents an order from entering into force.

The same judge permanently blocked Trump’s command From the entry into force on Friday, calling it unconstitutional.

“60 minutes“He is currently caught in his legal issues with Trump because CBS and the parent company Paramount Global continues to take a lawsuit.

“60 minutes” did not broadcast a guest who was arguing in favor of Trump’s commands. (AP PHOTO/CARLOS OBERIO; Screenshot/CBS News)

Trump is looking for $ 20 billion in a lawsuit against CBS, arguing that the election of an interference with his conversation “60 minutes” last year with then President Kamal Harris. The President accused CBS of helping his democratic opponent in 2024, with a deceptive editing just a few weeks before the presidential election. Paramount Global agreed to mediation last month, signaling that their quarrel in the courtroom could result in a settlement.

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