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How the Ellisons Acquired CBS: The Deal that Gave Trump Control of the Message and the Ellisons a Media Empire
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- Jul 16, 2026
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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 u...