A lawsuit was filed by the US President stating that CBS News channel allegedly favored the then vice president Kamala Harris in an interview of 2024
Paramount, owner of CBS News, agreed to pay $ 16 million (87.2 million reais) to end a lawsuit filed by the president for allegedly favoring the then vice president in an interview of 2024, the press said. Trump sued for $ 20 billion (109 billion reais) in October the popular CBS News investigative program for excluding excerpts from Harris’s responses, then his democratic rival in the 2024 presidential election campaign.
The $ 16 million will be destined for future presidential library instead of being handed over to Trump himself, Paramount said in a statement published on Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times. The media group did not apologize or express regret as part of the agreement, but agreed to publish the transcripts of the interviews of future presidential candidates in the program “60 minutes”. Trump accused CBS News of allegedly eliminated a confused response from Harris about the war group. CBS News denied the prosecution and explained that the section of an interview is a usual practice.
*With information from AFP
Posted by Fernando Dias
