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Paramount Offers Millions To Trump To End $20B ‘60 Minutes’ Suit & Let Skydance Merger Go Through
They don't have a deal yet, but Donald Trump is weighing the millions Shari Redstone & Paramount are willing to give him to make his 60 Minutes suit go away
Donald Trump and Paramount don’t have a deal yet to settle POTUS’ months old $20 billion 60 Minutes lawsuit, but the Shari Redstone ruled media company has put some serious millions on the table in the hopes to make this roadblock to a merger with Skydance disappear. Parsing the legal distinction, Trump was actually found liable early last year by a civil jury for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll – an outcome the former and current POTUS has constantly ridiculed. Opening promising to go after his enemies real and imagined, Trump quickly launched a Project 2025 fueled purging of the federal government (with the help of his top backer Elon Musk) and instituted more Viktor Orbán inspired attacks on the media.
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