President Trump's authorized crew members objected to Paramount International's transfer to dismiss his $20 billion lawsuit against CBS in the “60-minute” phase, believing that TV News magazine allegedly misleading misleading of Kamala Harris' interview and should not be protected by the first revision.
Trump filed a lawsuit against CBS just earlier than the 2024 presidential election, accusing Harris of a “60 Minute” interview that violated the safety regulations of deceptive voters of Texas shoppers and induced Trump's private currency damage. His swimsuit initially demanded $10 billion in compensation. In February, the president revised the complaint of no less than $20 billion.
In a March 2025 campaign to dismiss Trump’s swimsuit, Paramount was called “an insult to the first modification”, the motion “a foundation obtained in regulations or reality.” CBS information insists that the “60 minutes” of playback and facilitating Harris interviews “has no tampering or deception.”
Meanwhile, Paramount and Trump's lawyers held settlement negotiations. Paramount offers $15 million to settle for swimsuits – Trump rejected the number, according to a Wall Road Daily report. According to the magazine article, Trump's lawyers need more than that, and usually take “60 minutes” to apologize to the president. According to a WSJ report, during settlement negotiations, Trump's lawyer, the president's crew “threatened other lawsuits against CBS.”
On Wednesday (May 28), Trump and his co-litigation lawyer Rep. Ronnie Jackson (R-Texas) dismissed the opposition to Paramount.
A key level of Trump’s empowerment argument is that the editorial difference in Harris’ interview with “60 minutes” is characterized by industrial speeches and (as stated in the president’s lawsuit, CBS competition competes with Trump’s media companies, as well as the Trump media and knowledge groups at the fact social mom or dad company (located by the President’s Grand Slam).
In an interview with Harris, edited by CBS, “behavior and information distortion constitute industrial remarks that cannot be found to constitute editorial judgments with any cheap explanation, and the theory is broken.” “The truth about the information group’s delivery of such industrial speeches does not detach the defendant from the legal liability under the first amendment.”
“[T]According to the submission of Trump crew, he first revised it and did not defend information distortion.
According to the submission, “60 Minutes” revised the Harris interview “inducing general chaos and psychological distress among shoppers, and the plaintiff, associated with the family champion of traditional media, apparently deceived its broadcast, after which the resistance resisted attempted to clear public documents from the general public.”
A replica of the Trump crew movement filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas is on this hyperlink.
The authorized battle was followed by Paramount seeking authorities to approve a $8 billion merger with Skydance Media. Three left-wing U.S. senators warned that Paramount's controlling shareholder Shari Redstone, though authorized experts say media companies are least likely to face such costs, most importantly, the president's settlement costs may be related to illegal bribery.
Most importantly – The Kendes deal is currently awaiting FCC approval. Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed FCC chairman, maintained the company's recognition of Paramount-foundation should not be linked to the president's “60 Minutes” lawsuit. Carl noted in a Fox Information interview that the last {} conservative group's “information distortion” to CBS in November was “more likely to appear in the context of FCC assessments” in the “60 Minutes” Harris interview [the Paramount-Skydance] trade. Paramount International said Trump's lawsuit “is completely separate from the Skydance deal and FCC approved courses, and has nothing to do with it. ”
In February, Redstone asked Paramount’s board of directors to resolve Trump’s lawsuit by exploring mediation potential. choose Reported. Redstone withdraws some solutions with Trump from the board of directors' discussions.
In response to the FCC’s request to examine the “New Twisted” dissatisfaction, CBS Information made it public an unedited transcript of the “60 Minutes” interview with Harris, which aired on October 6, 2024 (on this hyperlink), and said the supply confirmed that “the gradual repetition guarantees a full-scale public repetition guarantee”, not printed or deceptive. ”
The Trump lawsuit claims against “60 Minutes” correspondent Whitaker demanded Harris's relationship with the Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Whitaker said Whitaker said “should not listen” to white families. CBS Information broadcasts an extended part of Harris’ response on October 6 on “Facing the Country”, while the editor’s “60 Minutes” phase played the following day, including shortening the summary from the same replies. “Each excerpt shows the essence of the vice-chairman's reply,” the CBS message said in a press release.
In another case, Trump sued ABC Information for the last 12 months, George Stephanopoulos admitted inaccurately in the air that Trump was responsible for the rape. (A New York jury found Trump was responsible for sexual abuse and slander writer E. Jean Carroll.) In December 2024, Disney and ABC Information agreed to pay $15 million to resolve Trump's libel lawsuit and $1 million authorization charges.
