CBS, Paramount Settle With Trump Over Word-Salad Election Interference Case
Update: CBS Lies About the Settlement

CBS continues insisting it will never apologize.

But it has agreed to a key demand Trump made: that they will always release a full transcript of every interview with a presidential candidate. I wish they could have gotten them to agree to release the full video of an interview, and extended this to all interviews.

But this will limit CBS's ability to butcher interviews to either boost or slander their presidential candidate interview subjects.

Paramount will settle President Trump's lawsuit over a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris for $16 million, the company announced late Tuesday.

CBS News' parent company worked with a mediator to resolve the lawsuit. Under the agreement, $16 million will be allocated to Mr. Trump's future presidential library and the plaintiffs' fees and costs. Neither Mr. Trump nor his co-plantiff, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, will be directly paid as part of the settlement.

The settlement did not include an apology.

Paramount also agreed that "60 Minutes" will release transcripts of interviews with presidential candidates in the future, "subject to redactions as required for legal or national security concerns," the statement said.

This report is from the guilty party themselves, CBS. They point out that this suit was filed in a Texas jurisdiction with only one judge, a Trump appointee.

The lawsuit was filed in Amarillo, Texas, a portion of a federal district court where the sole judge is a 2019 Trump appointee, and it was based on a state consumer protection law that is intended to prevent advertisers from misleading the public about a product being sold. CBS News is not headquartered in Texas, nor did the interview take place there.

Oh, so now forum-shopping is a bad thing? Now it's a bad thing when people sue in an area with adverse political leanings?

But it's still okay for a New York or LA judge to preside over Gavin Newsom's $800 million lawsuit against Fox, right?

It's still okay for every Democrat or Republican to be tried in 85% Democrat jurisdictions, right?

Update: CBS is lying. Shock! They didn't report of the free advertising they'd promised Trump in addition to the $16 million payoff.

In addition to the lump sum payment, it is anticipated that CBS will air eight figures worth of advertisements, PSAs, or similar content promoting conservative causes for free, a source familiar with the negotiations and settlement deal told the Washington Free Beacon. While Paramount's current brass has disputed that provision, the incoming management team that is expected to take over after the company's merger with Skydance plans to honor it, the source said.

posted by Ace at 01:10 PM

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