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Paramount Global In Discussions With Donald Trump To Settle Lawsuit Over Kamala Harris’ ‘60 Minutes’ Interview — Update
Paramount Global has been in detailed discussions with Donald Trump‘s team about settling his lawsuit against CBS over the way that a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was edited last year, we can confirm. Any settlement would be a highly conciliatory gesture to Trump. He was not even part of the 60 Minutes piece, […]
He was not even part of the 60 Minutes piece, but he sued the network for $10 billion under Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which is generally aimed at false advertising. In their response to the lawsuit, CBS’ lawyers said, “Plaintiff’s attempt to punish Defendants for their editorial judgments is barred by the First Amendment.” In their merger filing earlier this month, Skydance and Paramount Global had made similar arguments in response to a conservative group’s complaints that CBS’ news programming was biased and should be addressed as a merger condition. Earlier this week, Meta settled Trump’s 2001 lawsuit after he was suspended from the Facebook and Instagram platforms following the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
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