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Donald Trump Appears To Praise David Ellison Amid Pending Skydance-Paramount Merger Approval, Settlement Talks In ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit


Ellison's Skydance is seeking administration approval of the Paramount deal.

Trump then went on to his $20 billion lawsuit against Paramount and CBS over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris. The president on Thursday did not say at what stage the settlement talks are at, but both legal teams last week confirmed in a court filing that a mediator has been brought in. His legal team filed a revised lawsuit in February, this time claiming that Trump was harmed because the show unfairly diverted audience traffic from Truth Social and the president’s other media properties.

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