Global Paramount He chose to issue a 16 million dollar check to the president of the United States Donald Trump Instead of fighting what he had described as “without foundation.”
On Tuesday night, the media company said it will pay Trump to resolve a demand linked to the interview program “60 minute”betting on the payment will help the company’s fortune and accelerate a planned agreement with Skydance Mediaeven if you run the risk of tarnishing one of the most historical brands of CBS.
Donald Trump’s demand against Paramount
Paramount said in a statement that he had agreed to pay Trump 16 million dollars to resolve his law Kamala Harris and deceive American voters, although both the company and legal experts had said that Trump’s position in the matter was weak.
The theme in question was the “60 minute” interview of 2024 between the correspondent Bill Whitaker and Democratic candidate Harris, presented in a special edition of the program four weeks before the 2024 elections.
Trump’s lawsuit, presented in a federal court in the northern district of Texas in November, said that “60 minute” tried to deceive voters by issuing two different editions of the comments made in the interview with Harris, then Trump’s rival for the White House. CBS had tried to make the case dismissed. Subsequently, the Federal Communications Commission opened an investigation into the matter, and CBS and Trump lawyers hired a mediator.
The demand was filed five days before Trump won the presidential elections of 2024, which returned it to the White House only four years after his defeat against the Democrat Joe Biden. Trump’s crusade against CBS and “60 minute” has meant an extraordinary and worrying exhibition of political power by a acting president.
Meanwhile, the management of the matter by Paramount Global caused outrage and consternation in CBS News. The main producers of “60 minute” felt that Paramount supervisors, including the Shari Redstone majority shareholder, had begun to interfere in the editing process and the selection of program stories, even asking the news managers if certain articles that analyzed the recent policies of Trump should be published.
According to Paramount, the agreement “does not include a declaration of apology or repentance”a measure that Trump’s legal team had promoted. This result could help the company face the probable fury reactions of its news staff. CBS News staff, the producers and correspondents of “60 minute” have made it clear that the idea that the program offers an apology for conducting an interview with Harris, produced and edited according to industry standards, would be an anathema for any professional of journalism. Trump rejected the opportunity to participate in an interview with “60 minute” before the elections.
What will be the fate of the millions that Paramount will pay Donald Trump
None of the 16 million dollars will be paid directly or indirectly to President Trump, but will go to his presidential library, according to Paramount. The company also agreed that, in the future, “60 minute” will publish interview transcripts with eligible US presidential candidates after its issuance, “subject to the necessary modifications for legal or national security reasons.”
Trump’s legal team declared that Paramount Global and CBS “realized the strength of this historical case and had no choice but to reach an agreement.” As expected, Trump filed the agreement as a claim of the litigation, which has been denounced as political extortion by jurists and defenders of the first amendment. The statement included Trump’s well -known attack on the “false news” and said falsely that Paramount was guilty of “lying” to the public.
The agreement with Paramount could encourage Trump to undertake more litigation against media companies whose coverage dislikes him. Last week, a lawyer from Trump threatened to sue the New York Times and the CNN Due to his reports on the initial evaluation of the Pentagon that American bombings against Iranian nuclear facilities delayed the country’s nuclear weapons program “a few months”, while Trump has affirmed that Iranian facilities were “totally destroyed.”
Source: Ambito
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