In another big win for President Donald Trump and another devastating loss for the propaganda press, Paramount — parent company of CBS News — has agreed to an eight-figure settlement with the president over 60 Minutes’ cheap fake pre-election interview with Kamala Harris.
Paramount will make a $16 million contribution to Trump’s future presidential library and cover the plaintiffs’ attorneys fees, CBS News was forced to report late Tuesday. Fox News Digital reported that the settlement could ultimately reach more than $30 million to settle Trump’s election interference complaint against the broadcast news network.
The CBS News story was quick to note that neither Trump nor the co-plaintiff, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, “will be directly paid as part of the settlement.”
“The settlement did not include an apology,” the network news outlet petulantly added.
But Paramount has agreed that its storied but troubled television news magazine will release transcripts of sit-downs with presidential candidates moving forward, “subject to redactions as required for legal or national security concerns,” Paramount said in a statement to multiple news outlets.
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The mediated settlement draws to an end the lawsuit Trump’s campaign filed not long after the former vice president and the Democrats’ stand-in candidate for president beclowned herself in the October interview. It is the latest victory for the president against a Trump-hating corporate media that have effectively served as a public-relations firm and attack dog for Democrats.
In December, ABC News agreed to a $15 million contribution to the Trump library in settling a defamation lawsuit in which old Clinton operator George Stephanopoulos wrongly accused the incoming president of being found civilly liable