Again, a large media group bends in the USA before Donald Trump. This time it is paramount. Last week, the company announced that the US president will pay 16 million US dollars, and in reserve a comparison, so that Berry has a legal dispute that threatened to be expensive for Paramount. The amount – minus the legal fees of Trump – will be donated to his future presidential library, including the museum and archive.
Many experts rightfully believed that Paramount could continue to fight in court, Trump’s lawsuit was for no reason. Trump accuses the 60 minutes program at the CBS station, which belongs to Paramount that he manipulated in the USA in 2024. The show reduced the answer to an interview from its competitor in the race around the White House Kamal Harris. Trump claims that Harris helped the unjust advantage.
In particular, an interview with “60 minutes” about the prime minister of Israel Binjamin Netanyahu was in an interview. Kamala Harris gave a detailed but uneven answer to the question of whether the United States had a Netanyahu. The broadcaster reduced the answer, although a longer version occurred in a trailer for an interview, as a transcript published by CBS shows.
The answer was not controversial. Nevertheless, Trump says that Harris worked like that “president”. He canceled his planned performance in 60 minutes. After winning the elections in 2024, Trump did not forget the interview with Harris. The press secretary Donald Trumps sells a comparison with Paramount as a “victory for the American people”.
Trump is responsible for the “false media.” Paramount not only pays $ 16 million to Trump. The company undertakes to publish full transcripts of interviews in 60 minutes with presidential candidates in the future.
Criticism is growing
The fact that Paramount surrendered is likely to be associated with the planned merger with Skydance. FCC is controlled by Trump with a trusted person Brendan Carr and can prevent them. Both Paramount and Brendan Carr say that extrajudicial comparison and the planned merger have nothing common with each other.
Nevertheless, criticism is growing from the “60 minutes” -long -term, well -known and multifaceted broadcast. Bill Owens announced in April after 37 years in CBS as the head of the program, because he was no longer allowed to make independent journalistic decisions. In May, Wendy Makmakhon, President of CBS News, resigned at the pressure of the company.
Back in December, Trump celebrated the victory in Kurt against ABC, which should pay $ 15 million to his presidential library. ABC could also continue to fight in court, according to an expert on a legal expert. The legal dispute was a statement that the court in Manhattan condemned Trump for rape.
This is correctly out of sexual violence and slander, although the judge emphasized that in New York there was a close definition of rape, and the decision of the jury does not mean that the plaintiff did not prove that it was raped, as this term understood.
