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Jon Stewart and Steve Kroft Break Down Paramount’s $16 Million Trump Settlement, Former ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Slams Deal as ‘Tribute to the King’

Jon Stewart and Steve Kroft discussed the Paramount-Trump settlement, a deal the former '60 Minutes' correspondent called 'tribute to the king.'

On this week’s episode of “ The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart was joined by journalist Steve Kroft to discuss Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Donald Trump, a deal the former “ 60 Minutes ” correspondent called “tribute to the king.” Stewart opened the interview by asking Kroft what it meant for a news organization like “60 Minutes” to pay such a large settlement to the president, offering the word “devastating” as a descriptor for internal attitudes. All against the backdrop of Paramount’s $8 billion deal with Skydance, which awaits approval from the Trump-controlled FCC, the studio agreed to pay the president $16 million rather than fight on against a lawsuit they had previously slammed as “meritless.”

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