President Donald Trump has rejected a settlement offer of $15 million from Paramount after he sued the company over a 60 Minutes interview last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
Fox News Digital confirmed that Trump rejected a $15 million offer to settle his lawsuit, according to a source familiar with the matter. The president’s legal team is also demanding at least $25 million and an apology from CBS News. Trump’s attorneys even floated another lawsuit against the company.
Last October, Trump sued CBS News and Paramount for $10 billion over allegations of election interference involving the “60 Minutes” interview of then-Vice President Kamala Harris that aired weeks before the presidential election (the amount has since jumped to $20 billion).
The lawsuit alleges CBS News deceitfully edited an exchange Harris had with “60 Minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker, who asked her why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t “listening” to the Biden administration. Harris was widely mocked for the “word salad” answer that aired in a preview clip of the interview on “Face the Nation.”
However, when the same question aired during a primetime special on the network, Harris had a different, more concise response. Critics at the time accused CBS News of deceitfully editing Harris’ “word salad” answer to shield the Democratic nominee from further backlash leading up to Election Day.
The raw transcript and footage released earlier this year by the FCC showed that both sets of Harris’ comments came from the same response, but CBS News had aired only the first half of her response in the “Face the Nation” preview clip and aired the second half during the primetime special.
CBS News has denied any wrongdoing and stands by the broadcast and its reporting.
The lawsuit is just the latest a string of litigation Trump has brought against media companies. In December, ABC settled a defamation lawsuit by giving $15 million to Trump’s presidential foundation and issuing an apology.
He means 51M from CBS not 15
The $15, or even $51 million are far from the excessive numbers the Democratic House Organs (HOs) are pushing. When it comes to Leftist claims, any numbers are too small and any punishment too lenient.
Recall, if the Left hasn’t removed it from the Net, the $800 million fine that Fox was forced to pay to Dominion voting machines. The case was followed up by another voting machine case for over a billion dollars. How these fines were justified, both as law suits and as penalties, is still unclear.
Those cases are much less clear than the obscene, sexist claims and insults hurled at Trump and his family by the Democratic Media House organs, including CBS. The double standard is dominant, and it needs to be stopped, and safeguards put in place to prevent it from occurring again if there is to be any hope of regaining the constitutional republic that was once America