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Dan Rather on Paramount’s $16 Million Trump Settlement: ‘It Was a Sell-Out to Extortion by the President’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather shared his support for "60 Minutes" and disappointment in Paramount's Trump lawsuit settlement: 'It was a sell-out.'
Legendary former CBS News anchor Dan Rather expressed disappointment Wednesday at Paramount Global ‘s decision to pay $16 million to the Trump administration and settle its lawsuit over a “ 60 Minutes ” report. Most legal scholars agreed the suit — in which Trump accused “60 Minutes” of deceptively editing an interview with then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris — was frivolous and wouldn’t hold up under the First Amendment. The decision to strike a deal was widely seen as a critical step to receiving approval from the Trump-controlled FCC for Skydance’s $8 billion acquisition of the media conglom.
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