{"id":15118,"date":"2025-06-26T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15118\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:30:08","slug":"trumps-cbs-lawsuit-mediator-proposes-20-million-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15118\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s CBS Lawsuit Mediator Proposes $20 Million Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe mediator in President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s lawsuit against CBS<\/a> and 60 Minutes<\/a> has proposed a settlement worth $20 million, according to a report<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal, just days after court documents filed by the network called the action \u201cmeritless\u201d <\/a>and an attack on the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe proposal is said to include a $17 million donation to Trump\u2019s presidential foundation or museum and $3 million in legal fees and public service announcements on Paramount<\/a> Global-owned networks to fight antisemitism, the WSJ said, citing people familiar with the situation. The situation is still fluid. Most recently, the Trump team had had asked CBS for a $25 million settlement and an apology. It\u2019s not clear if a mea culpa is part of the latest proposal.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump sued CBS for $20 billion<\/a> in a Texas court in October claiming deceitful editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, later revising the suit to claim the newsmagazine violated state and federal laws typically used to pursue false advertising claims.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe suit and settlement talks have unfolded with a proposed sale of Paramount Global to Skydance Media under review by the FCC, which is led by Trump appointee and loyalist Brendan Carr.<\/p>\n

\n\tU.S. senators, California lawmakers and public interest groups have threatened to sue Paramount under anti-bribery statutes if the company agrees to settle and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone is concerned about potential legal liability. Par recently brought in law firm Gibson Dunn to assess whether it could offer more than $15 million without putting its directors and top executives at risk of future litigation or criminal charges. Late last year. Disney\u2019s ABC\u00a0agreed to contribute $15 million to\u00a0Trump\u2018s presidential foundation and museum <\/a>as part of a settlement reached in Trump\u2019s defamation case against the network.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week, Trump praised Skydance CEO David Ellison<\/a>, telling reporters \u201cEllison\u2019s great\u201d and \u201che\u2019ll do a great job with it,\u201d referring to the merger. Ellison\u2019s father, billionaire Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, was a big supporter of Trump in last year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

\n\tA statement to Deadline from a Trump attorney today, however, said the President \u201cis committed to holding those who traffic in fake news, hoaxes, and lies to account. CBS and Paramount targeted the President in an attempt to harm his reputation while committing the worst kind of election interference and fraud in the closing days of the most important presidential election in history. President Trump will pursue this vital matter to its just and rightful conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA Paramount spokesperson declined comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mediator in President Donald Trump\u2018s lawsuit against CBS and 60 Minutes has proposed a settlement worth $20…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15327,64,15328,69,15329,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-15118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-60-minutes","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cbs","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-paramount","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114747318211512682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}