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July 2, 2025 - Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of a 60 Minutes pre-election interview with then Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
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Trump's legal team said the settlement was "another win for the American people," who were holding "the fake news media accountable."
The move by Paramount, according to a statement by the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), smacked of favoritism and referenced Paramount's planned merger with Skydance Media.
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First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, who represented The New York Times during the Pentagon Papers case, told the FPF that "the agreement of Paramount to pay any settlement amount to Donald Trump based on a broadcast that was both journalistically responsible and fully protected by the First Amendment is an ominous blow to press freedom.”
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