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Paramount Pays $16 Million to Settle Trump ‘60 Minutes’ Suit

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Updated Jul 2, 2025, 03:30 PM

Paramount Global said late Tuesday that it will pay US$16 million to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit accusing CBS’s “60 Minutes” of deceptively editing a 2024 interview with then–vice-president Kamala Harris. Court filings show the payment, which includes legal fees, will be directed to Trump’s future presidential library; neither Trump nor co-plaintiff Rep. Ronny Jackson will receive funds personally. The agreement contains no apology or admission of wrongdoing by Paramount or CBS.

Trump filed the case in Amarillo, Texas, last October, initially seeking US$10 billion in damages and later raising the claim to US$20 billion. He alleged that two different edits of Harris’s response to a question on Israel distorted her remarks and amounted to election interference. CBS called the suit “completely without merit” but entered mediation this spring after a federal judge ordered settlement talks.

Under the deal, “60 Minutes” will begin publishing transcripts of interviews with U.S. presidential candidates after broadcast, subject to legal or national-security redactions. The settlement also releases Paramount and CBS from any further claims tied to their reporting up to the signing date.

The accord removes a potential stumbling block for Paramount’s planned US$8.4 billion sale to Skydance Media, which still requires clearance from the Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission. Media analysts said settling now could reduce regulatory risk as the FCC reviews the transfer of more than two dozen CBS station licences.

Paramount is the third major media company in seven months to settle litigation brought by Trump, following Disney’s ABC News (US$15 million) and Meta Platforms (about US$25 million). Press-freedom advocates warn the string of payouts could encourage further lawsuits against news organizations, even as the networks maintain their original reporting was accurate.

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