How the Ellisons Acquired CBS: The Deal that Gave Trump Control of the Message and the Ellisons a Media Empire

Podcast: Surviving Trump. Saving America · Bella Goode

Opublikowano: 2026-07-16

Send us Fan Mail On March 13, 2026, Pete Hegseth stood at a Pentagon press briefing and blurted out a secret. He said he couldn't wait for David Ellison to take over CNN. In one unscripted moment, the Secretary of Defense revealed what this administration has been carefully avoiding saying out loud: that the Trump White House wants indirect control of America's largest news organizations — not through government ownership, which the Constitution prohibits, but through billionaire allies who understand what is expected of them. The Ellisons are that alliance. This episode documents how it worked at CBS — and what it c...