{"id":44252,"date":"2025-07-02T04:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44252"},"modified":"2025-07-02T04:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:06:03","slug":"paramount-agrees-to-pay-16-million-to-settle-trumps-lawsuit-over-60-minutes-kamala-harris-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44252","title":{"rendered":"Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump’s lawsuit over ’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump<\/a> that had alleged an interview that aired on CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d last year with Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent for the presidency, was deceptively edited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agreement in principle, proposed by a mediator, includes plaintiffs\u2019 fees and costs and \u2014 except for fees and costs \u2014 will be allocated to Trump\u2019s future presidential library<\/a>, Paramount Global said in a statement late Tuesday. Paramount is the parent company of CBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of Texas and sought $20 billion in damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither CBS News nor the White House immediately responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump added his former doctor, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-TX, as a plaintiff to the suit in February, the Los Angeles Times reported<\/a>. Under the settlement, Paramount said in its statement, neither the president nor Jackson would personally receive direct or indirect payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paramount also said it agreed that in the future \u201c60 Minutes\u201d will release transcripts of interviews with eligible U.S. presidential candidates after the interviews have aired, \u201csubject to redactions as required for legal or national security concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed settlement comes as Paramount seeks to complete an $8 billion merger with media production group Skydance Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paramount on Tuesday pointed to a previous statement regarding the Skydance merger. “This lawsuit is completely separate from, and unrelated to, the Skydance transaction and the FCC approval process,” it said. “We will abide by the legal process to defend our case.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The merger requires approval from the Trump administration, a situation that has led to tensions at CBS News that have spilled out into the open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, Wendy McMahon resigned as head of CBS News<\/a>, saying in a memo that \u201cthe company and I do not agree on the path forward.\u201d That resignation followed the departure in April of Bill Owens,<\/a> a top producer at \u201c60 minutes.\u201d In a memo to staff members, Owens said his journalistic independence had been hamstrung over the previous months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump that had alleged an interview that aired on CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d last year with Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent for the presidency, was deceptively edited. The agreement in principle, proposed by a mediator, includes plaintiffs\u2019 fees and costs and \u2014 except […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2302,8743,1144,1795,1230],"class_list":["post-44252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-harris","tag-interview","tag-lawsuit","tag-settlement","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44254,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44252\/revisions\/44254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}