Mediator in Trump's lawsuit against Paramount, CBS News proposes $20 million settlement

The mediator progressive successful President Donald Trump's suit against Paramount and CBS News reportedly projected a $20 cardinal colony to extremity the high-stakes ineligible battle. 

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Trump and Paramount's ineligible teams were presented with a connection to extremity the president's $20 cardinal suit with a $20 cardinal settlement, according to sources acquainted with the matter. 

The proposal, per the WSJ, would person Paramount making a $17 cardinal donation to a Trump statesmanlike instauration oregon depository and paying millions much successful ineligible fees and nationalist work announcements connected Paramount-owned networks to combat antisemitism. 

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The mediator successful President Donald Trump's suit against Paramount projected a $20 cardinal colony to extremity the months-long ineligible battle. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Last month, Trump rejected Paramount's $15 cardinal colony offer arsenic helium sought astatine slightest a $25 cardinal payout arsenic good arsenic an apology. According to the Wall Street Journal, Paramount "isn’t prepared" to springiness one.

"President Trump is committed to holding those who postulation successful fake news, hoaxes, and lies to account," Trump lawyer Ed Paltzik told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "CBS and Paramount targeted the President successful an effort to harm his estimation portion committing the worst benignant of predetermination interference and fraud successful the closing days of the astir important statesmanlike predetermination successful history. President Trump volition prosecute this captious substance to its conscionable and rightful conclusion."

Paramount did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. 

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President Donald Trump has demanded astatine slightest $25 cardinal and an apology from Paramount and CBS News.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

Last October, Trump sued CBS News and Paramount for $10 cardinal implicit allegations of predetermination interference involving the "60 Minutes" interrogation of then-Vice President Kamala Harris that aired weeks earlier the statesmanlike predetermination (the magnitude has since jumped to $20 billion).

The suit alleges CBS News deceitfully edited an speech Harris had with "60 Minutes" analogous Bill Whitaker, who asked her wherefore Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't "listening" to the Biden administration. Harris was wide mocked for the "word salad" reply that aired successful a preview clip of the interrogation connected "Face the Nation." 

However, erstwhile the aforesaid question aired during a primetime peculiar connected the network, Harris had a different, much concise response. Critics astatine the clip accused CBS News of deceitfully editing Harris' "word salad" answer to shield the Democratic nominee from further backlash starring up to Election Day.

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The earthy transcript and footage released earlier this twelvemonth by the FCC showed that some sets of Harris' comments came from the aforesaid response, but CBS News had aired lone the archetypal fractional of her effect successful the "Face the Nation" preview clip and aired the 2nd fractional during the primetime special. 

CBS News has denied immoderate wrongdoing and stands by the broadcast and its reporting. 

An speech from the "60 Minutes" predetermination peculiar betwixt analogous Bill Whitaker and then-Vice President Kamala Harris is astatine the halfway of President Donald Trump's $20 cardinal lawsuit. (Screenshots/CBS News)

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Shari Redstone, Paramount's controlling shareholder who recused herself from colony discussions successful February, made wide that she wanted to settee Trump's suit successful hopes of clearing the pathway for Paramount's multibillion-dollar planned merger with Skydance Media, which needs support from the Trump administration's FCC. 

However, determination has been newsroom drama successful caller months involving Redstone's efforts to "keep tabs" connected the network's reporting of Trump, astatine slightest until the merger closes. That led to the abrupt resignations of "60 Minutes" enforcement shaper Bill Owens, who claimed helium could nary longer support editorial independence, successful April, and CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon successful May.