Paramount Global and CBS agreed on Tuesday to pay President Donald Trump a sum that could reach northern $ 30 million to resolve the president’s demand for electoral interference against network.
Trump will receive $ 16 million ahead. This will cover the legal fees, the costs of the case and the contributions to their library or charitable causes, will be determined at Trump’s criterion.
There is an expectation that there is another assignment to the eight -eight figures that are used for advertising, public services ads or other similar transmissions, in support of conservative causes of the network, has known Fox News Digital.
Sources close to the situation told Fox News Digital that CBS has agreed to update its publishing standards to install a new compulsory rule. From now on, the network will quickly publish complete and unpublished transcripts of the future interviews of presidential candidates.
The people involved in the settlement conversations have referred to this as a “Trump domain”.
Trump was looking for $ 20 billion in his demand against CBS for his management of an “60 -minute” interview last year with the then Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing the network of election interference until the 2024 competition. CBS does not recognize any journalistic crime with the liquidation.
The demand claimed that CBS News deceptively edited an exchange that Harris had with the “60 -minute” correspondent Bill Whitaker, who asked him why the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was not “listening” to Biden’s administration.
Harris was broadly mocked by the “word salad” response, which was published in a preview clip of the interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation”.
However, when the same question was issued during a first -hour special on the net, Harris had a different and more concise response. Critics at that time accused CBS News deceptively editing Harris’s “Salad Word” response to protecting the Democratic candidate from more backward until the day of the election.
The raw transcript and the images published earlier this year by the FCC showed that both Harris comments came from the same answer, but CBS News had only issued the first half of his response to the preview clip of “ facing the nation ” and issued the second half during the first -hour special.
CBS News had long denied any crime and remained next to the transmission and reports.
The Legal Team of Paramount and Trump had accepted the mediation designed to help the sides reach an agreement. It was widely believed that Paramount’s overall control shareholder, Shari Redstone, wanted to establish the demand ahead of a $ 1 billion planned merger with Media Skydance in the hope of preventing the Trump FCC’s potential remuneration, which has the authority to stop the transaction.
Trump confidently stated the case against CBS as “winner” in April.
“They deceived and defrauded the North -American people at the political level in the political sphere. Kamala Harris, during early vote, and immediately before the day of the election, a question was asked and gave an answer, which was so bad and incompetent that it would have cost him many of the votes he ended up gaining,” Trump published in the social truth of mediation, accusing the perpetration of the perpetration of the mediation blocker. American people.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., And eight Democratic colleagues sent a letter to Redstone in May asking him not to resolve the lawsuit against CBS News, who called a “attack on the first amendment.” They called the possible settlement a “serious error” and “a blatant attempt to intimidate the media and those who speak against him, President Trump”.
The letter also stated that “presidents do not punish or censor the media to criticize them” in the United States.
Earlier this year, FCC President Brendan Carr ordered CBS News to deliver the transcript not edited as part of his probe on whether the network violated the FCC’s “news distortion” policy after a complaint. CBS had refused to release the non -edited transcript until the FCC became involved.
Trump’s lawyers modified their lawsuit to include multiple fragments of the united transcript in the hope of reinforcing their case that CBS News retained carefree exchanges to help the democratic candidate.
The saga emerged as a distraction within the news of CBS and the executive producer of “60 minutes” of a long time ago, Bill Owens, moved away from work in April because he could not make the “independent” decisions needed for the Prosperés program. Owens, who had insisted that CBS did nothing wrong with Harris edition, was vehement against offering any kind of apology to the President.
CBS News President and CEO, Wendy McMahon, who is believed to be against Trump’s installation, announced on May 19 that he left another impressive play for the company wrapped.
“It has been clear that the company and I do not agree on the way. It is time to move on and that this organization is moving forward with new leadership,” McMahon told employees in a note obtained by Fox News Digital.
ABC also resolved a lawsuit in December with the then President -elect Trump for $ 15 million, after the anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly and incorrectly stated that Trump had been “responsible for the rape” in a civil court last year.
Fox News Digital Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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