Trump Gets Paramount to Cough Up Millions to End ‘60 Minutes’ Suit
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Paramount Global will pay $16 million to Donald Trump’s presidential library to end his $20 billion lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris—but won’t apologize.
The company announced the settlement just after midnight on Wednesday, hours ahead of Paramount’s shareholder meeting. The $16 million includes Trump’s legal fees, matching the $16 million sum Disney paid Trump’s library to settle his defamation suit over an interview ABC’s George Stephanopoulos did with GOP Rep. Nancy Mace.
“No amount will be paid directly or indirectly to President Trump or Rep. Jackson personally,” Paramount said in a statement. “The settlement will include a release of all claims regarding any CBS reporting through the date of the settlement, including the Texas action and the threatened defamation action.”
A representative for Trump in the case did not respond to an immediate request for comment.
This is a developing story and it will be updated.
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The Trump Presidential Library keeps looking better & better.
I like it ...
CBS finally got their pee-pee whacked. Nice!
They paid $16 million in a failed attempt to make Harris appear likable. So does that get added to the billion democrats spent on her failed appointment?
16 million to avoid publishing an unedited transcript. 60 minutes is pure propaganda.
CBS did nothing wrong. Fox has edited interviews with Trump to make him more coherent than he really is.
The owner of Paramount wants a merger and it has to be approved by the trump administration, so she is bending the knee about 60 minutes. That is one of the ways he is destroying our country. He leverages peoples greed and self-centeredness.
Obviously, that's why they paid 16 million dollars. (s)
$16 million settlement says otherwise.
And there's the deflection.
So Trump's lawyers managed to get 0.08% of what was asked? Snert!
They accepted a price.
I have a feeling that won't be the last lawsuit for CNN.
Nor for any news site, left, right or up the yin yang; suing is an american pastime.
The linked story is missing one important point.
I think this is a very important piece of the settlement. In the future, the full transcripts will be released on such candidates with the only redactions being for legal or national security concerns. They can no longer perform their "edit for clarity" bullshit and refuse to release unedited transcripts. They should have been doing this from the start but ...
And they wonder why the public holds main-stream media in such low regard.
One problem with unedited transcripts rests with the the nonverbal ways in which we communicate known as body language.
Agree 100%. With the transcripts should be the unedited audio and video.
But which one is worse? The selective editing based on a person's bias or the non-release of audio and video of the unedited version?
As for myself I'm very tired of those in main-stream media who are there to "protect us from ourselves".
The one that grates one's peccadillos.
Oh, now THIS is fkng hilarious:
Bribery? She can't really be THAT stupid.
So.... when is she gonna file for impeachment? After all, she's gotta be right. Doesn't she? /s
I think they are trying to NOT make it look like that idiot Green's pathetic attempt. Like they have a chance.