Paramount to pay $16 million in settlement with Trump over '60 Minutes' interview

In a lawsuit seen arsenic a situation to escaped speech, Paramount has agreed to wage $16 cardinal to settee a suit filed by President Donald Trump implicit the editing of CBS' “60 Minutes” interrogation with then-Vice President Kamala Harris successful October.

Paramount told media outlets the wealth volition spell to Trump’s aboriginal statesmanlike library, not to the president himself. It said the colony did not impact an apology.

Trump’s lawyer said the president had suffered “mental anguish” implicit the editing of the interrogation by CBS News.

Paramount and CBS rejected Trump’s contention that the interrogation was edited to heighten however Harris sounded and had sought to get Trump's suit dismissed.

There was nary contiguous connection from the White House astir the settlement.

Under the colony reached with assistance of a mediator, Paramount agreed that “60 Minutes” volition merchandise transcripts of aboriginal interviews of statesmanlike candidates, “subject to redactions arsenic required for ineligible and nationalist information concerns,” CBS News cited the connection arsenic saying.

Trump, who did not hold to beryllium interviewed by “60 Minutes” during the campaign, protested editing wherever Harris is seen giving 2 antithetic answers to a question by the show’s Bill Whitaker successful abstracted clips aired connected “60 Minutes” and “Face the Nation” earlier successful the day. CBS said each reply came wrong Harris’ long-winded reply to Whitaker, but was edited to beryllium much succinct.

The president's lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, said that caused disorder and “mental anguish," misleading voters and causing them to wage little attraction to Trump and his Truth Social platform.

Paramount and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone were seeking the colony with Trump, whose medication indispensable o.k. the company’s projected merger with Skydance Media. CBS News President and CEO Wendy McMahon and “60 Minutes” enforcement shaper Bill Owens, who some opposed a settlement, person resigned successful caller weeks.

Meanwhile, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a media advocacy radical that says it is simply a Paramount shareholder, said that it would record a suit successful protestation if a colony was reached.

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