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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Says Paramount’s Trump Settlement ‘Seems Transactional,’ Tells Media Companies to ‘Do the Right Thing’ Amid Threats
Gov. Gavin Newsom has a message for media companies in the face of Trump's threats: 'Do the right thing.' Paramount settlement 'seems transactional.'
That $16 million settlement between Paramount’s CBS News and Trump is widely seen as a quid pro quo for the FCC to approve a long-awaited acquisition of the conglom by Skydance — something both companies have taken pains to say is not the case. “We’ll try to stop and stay these efforts to vandalize our democracy and to assault our rule of law, and notably, to take grant funding that Congress has legally appropriated that the President does not have a unilateral authority to take. “There’s not a day that goes by I could regale you with saved videos that just break your heart, women screaming because they’re being taken away by people with masks that refuse to provide IDs and unmarked cars in the middle of the day, the middle of the streets without any arrest warrants, without any criminal history, desperate just to provide medication to their young children, just being disappeared… I know people can feel overwhelmed the shock and awe of everything that’s going on, but we need to understand a moment we’re living.”
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