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President Donald Trump and Paramount are looking for a mediator, further feeding the speculation that both parties liquidate their CBS news demand of $ 20 billion, Fox News Digital has confirmed.
As reported for the first time For the New York Times, the lawyers of both parties aim to appoint a mediator that probably expedite a resolution to the high -risk legal battle.
“President Trump undertakes to sustain those who traffic of false news, deceptions and lies to account,” said Trump’s lawyer, Ed Paltzik, Fox News Digital in a statement. “CBS and Paramount committed the worst type of interference and electoral fraud in the final days of the most important presidential elections in history. President Trump will follow this vital issue until his just and legitimate conclusion.”
A Paramount representative declined to comment.
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Fox News Digital has confirmed that lawyers for President Trump and Paramount are looking for a mediator, indicating that their demand aimed at CBS News can end in an agreement. (Photo AP; Reuters Photo; captures/cbs news)
The search for a mediator arrives only a few days after a judge He ruled against Paramount and CBS News motion To dismiss the demand.
Earlier this month, Trump’s lawyers modified the original demand after the launch of the transcription without editing and the gross images of their controversial interview “60 minutes” with the then vice president Kamala Harris, which is in the center of the battle legal. The demand added the parent company of CBS News, Global Paramount, as accused, citing how the special choice of “60 minutes” was platform in its Paramount+transmission service. The claim added the representative Ronny Jackson, a Texas Republican, as a plaintiff and increased the claim of damage to $ 20 billion.
The FCC launched the transcription and the raw images delivered by CBS News, which showed that CBS News had transmitted only the first half of Harris’s answer to the question of the “60 minutes” correspondent of Bill Whitaker about the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, not “listening” to the Biden for the Biden. Administration in a preview clip that was issued in “Face the Nation”. CBS issued only the second half of its response during the stellar schedule special.
“But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” Whitaker said in the October 2024 interview. “The Wall Street Journal said he, that his administration has been repeatedly discarded by Netanyahu, and in fact, has rejected almost all The pleas of your administration “.
“Well, Bill, the work we have done has resulted in a series of movements in that region by Israel that were very caused by or as a result of many things, including our defense of what should happen in the region and we are not going To stop doing that.
The “60 minutes” interview between the correspondent Bill Whitaker and the then vice president Kamala Harris is at the Center for the demand of $ 20 billion of President Trump against CBS News and Global Paramount. (Screenshots/cbs news)
New FCC chair Brendan Carr He ordered CBS News to deliver the transcription without editing as part of his research on whether the network violated the “news distortion” policy of the FCC after a complaint was filed.
In the preview clip that was issued in “Face the Nation”, Harris was asked why it seemed that Netanyahu was not listening to the United States
“Well, Bill, the work we have done has resulted in a series of movements in that region by Israel that were very caused by, or a result of many things, including our defense of what should happen in the region,” Harris responded in the clip “Face the Nation.”
According to reports, Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controller shareholder, has been in favor of resolving President Trump’s demand against CBS News. (Left: (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images), Right: Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Harris was mocked by conservatives for offering a long “word salad” to Whitaker. But when that same question was issued the next night in the Special Elections during stellar schedule, A shorter and more focused answer The vice president followed him.
“We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we are in the need for this war to end,” Harris said in the stellar schedule special.
Critics accused CBS News of Editing Harris’s “word salad” response To protect the vice president of a subsequent reaction, and there were called to the network to publish the complete transcription after he only shared transcripts of what had been issued. CBS News refused to launch the unprocessed transcription until the FCC was involved.
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According to the reports, the CBS Global Matrix Company is considering establishing the demand before a planned fusion with Skydance average in the hope of preventing potential remuneration from the Trump FCC, which has the authority to stop the billionaire transaction. According to the reports, Shari Redstone, the Paramount’s controller shareholder, is in favor of establishing himself with the president.
A Paramount agreement would be the last in Trump’s legal victories when he reached multimillionaire settlements with ABC News, Meta and X.
