Paramount Offers Millions To Trump To End $20B '60 Minutes' Suit & Let Skydance Merger Go Through

[Eugene]

Source: Deadline

Paramount Offers Millions To Trump To End $20B ‘60 Minutes’ Suit & Let Skydance Merger Go Through

By Dominic Patten, Jill Goldsmith, Ted Johnson
May 28, 2025 5:24pm

Donald Trump and Paramount don’t have a deal yet to settle POTUS’ months-old $20 billion 60 Minutes lawsuit, but the Shari Redstone-ruled media company has put some serious millions on the table in the hopes to make this roadblock to a merger with Skydance disappear.

“It’s very early days,” a source close to talks between Trump’s lawyers and Paramount’s attorneys and execs tells Deadline. “An opening offer has been made, but more negotiations are underway,” the source confirmed. But they would not go into specifics beyond saying, “Right now, it’s an eight-figure discussion.”

In the waning days of last year’s bitter election, Trump went after longtime foil CBS over the way that its 60 Minutes had edited a wide-ranging interview with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

Asking for a headline-grabbing $20 billion, the Hail Mary action alleged violations of Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which typically is used by consumers for false advertising claims.

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Read more: https://deadline.com/2025/05/trump-paramount-settlement-offer-1236412894/

[BOSSHOG]

1. CBS or any other entity doesn't have to edit anything

To make trump look bad in the minds of patriotic decent citizens. Stupid people will believe anything trump tells them to believe.

The suit should be thrown out. There is no beef there. No sense in asking where’s the beef. Trump is a whiny bitch hating the truth and wanting to hurt people who expose it.

[Deuxcents]

2. Making deals with the devil is not a good idea

[DBoon]

3. "You've already established what sort of lady you are"

"Now we just figure out your price"

[PJMcK]

4. Duh

This settlement is all about Shari Redstone selling the corporation so she can reap gazillions in profits. What a lousy human being. I hope she chokes on her breakfast.

Ethics, morality and righteousness be damned.

[usonian]

5. Just to clarify. Is this an over the table bribe?

Interesting.

Tim Cook sure got his million dollar bribe's worth. 25% tariff on iphones not made in USA, Phineas T. Bluster threatens.

[Grins]

6. Payable to whom????

We’re too effed to survive as a nation.

[Firestorm49]

7. So it's a shakedown. How presidential.

[Frasier Balzov]

8. You can bet that Comcast is paying attention.

All of MSNBC is doomed to be renovated.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. If you settle he's just going come back for more