That deserves a NELSON!
Posted on 07/01/2025 9:17:04 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Paramount Global and CBS agreed on Tuesday to pay President Donald Trump a sum that could reach north of $30 million to settle the president’s election interference lawsuit against the network.
Trump will receive $16 million upfront. This will cover legal fees, costs of the case, and contributions to his library or charitable causes, to be determined at Trump’s discretion. There is an expectation that there will be another allocation in the mid-eight figures set aside for advertisements, public service announcements, or other similar transmissions, in support of conservative causes by the network, Fox News Digital has learned.
Sources close to the situation told Fox News Digital that CBS has agreed to update its editorial standards to install a mandatory new rule. Going forward, the network will promptly release full, unedited transcripts of future presidential candidates’ interviews. People involved in the settlement talks have referred to this as the "Trump Rule."
Trump was seeking $20 billion in his lawsuit against CBS over its handling of a "60 Minutes" interview last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing the network of election interference leading up to the 2024 contest. CBS is not acknowledging any journalistic wrongdoing with the settlement.
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That deserves a NELSON!
They settled because there is a deadline this week on the Skydance Paramont merger. They had to get this settled or that merger wasn’t going to go through.
Let’s see how many correspondence at 60 Minutes resigned in protest over this or will they all stay so they can continue to collect their big salaries
So why settle?
“Not till you crawl over here and you kiss my foot.”
Red Grant in From Russia with Love (1963)
Trump has a very nice start on that Presidential Library. It’s all the more sweet when it’s built on the backs of the corrupt left wing media.
The winning streak continues.
Captain, I very rarely correct anyone online, but in good conscience must point out that you meant correspondents, not correspondence. The former refers to humans, the latter refers to written communications.
Eight figures. Let’s see.
That would seem to mean 7 zeros + one # in front.
Could that mean the settlement is between 10 and 99 million(+999,000)?
And this Bill Whitaker fella-what’s his excuse for being a part of this sham?
BUSTED!
HA HA HA HA! The lefties are going to be hugely pissed. Suck it 60 minutes.
[Paramount Global and CBS agreed on Tuesday to pay President Donald Trump a sum that could reach north of $30 million to settle the president’s election interference lawsuit against the network.
Trump will receive $16 million upfront]
EXCELLENT!!!
EXCELLENT!!!
EXCELLENT!!!
$19 billion and not a penny less.
Why wssn’t this illegal as an unreported in-kind campaign contribution.
For me that would be a huge NO on agreeing to any settlement.
Trump should have forced them to admit what they did was biased and wrong and in a very public way across all media types.
Why they let them get away with this point is beyond me, Trump's lawyers should have made that admission of guilt the focal point of any settlement before any dollar amount was even negotiated IMHO.
According to the WSJ, the proposed settlement would direct $17 million to either Trump's foundation or a planned presidential museum. Paramount would also fund a series of public service announcements on antisemitism and cover legal fees as part of the deal.But CBS has pushed back on that aspect consistently, especially in the wake of George Stephanopoulos' apology to DJT. Producer Bill Owens has been repeatedly reported as 'ruling out' apologizing to DJT as part of any settlement of the $10 billion "frivolous" lawsuit over the CBS News '60 Minutes' [deceptively edited] interview, later amended to $20 billion after the transcript was released. This, of course, was all occurring in the midst of a Paramount Global/Skydance Media merger (Paramount is the parent of CBS News) which has largely driven the mediated settlement negotiations.Trump, however, wants the settlement to include a formal apology from the network.
Mediator sweetens pot in Trump-CBS lawsuit, but apology still off the table
Recall that DJT walked off the 60 Minutes set with Leslie Stahl in 2020, pledging not to return until the network offered him an apology, with DJT later releasing the full unedited interview.
Why did Trump abruptly exit his 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl?
President Trump's '60 Minutes' [unedited] interview
From the Fox article:
Owens, who had insisted CBS did nothing wrong with the Harris edit, was vehemently against offering any sort of apology to the president.It appears now that Owens got his way in the settlement in exchange for a >doubling of the original settlement offer.The settlement does not include a statement of regret. No amount will be paid directly or indirectly to President Trump personally.
So much for the apology DJT reportedly wanted... /s
Very strange that he goes hard against Musk and softens against 60 Minutes/CBS.
It does not pay to have Trump Derangement Syndromites running media corporations.
So much winning.
It would be good to see both CNN and CBS shut themselves down.
MSNLSD is next.
More WINNING! MAGA! :)
This allows all the leftwing activists pretending to be journalists at CBS some crumbs they can cling to - that's all they got.
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