Trump Wins $16 Million Settlement From Paramount Over Kamala Interview Deception

In a major legal victory and yet another blow to the credibility of the mainstream media, President Donald Trump has secured a $16 million payout from Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News. This comes after CBS’s flagship program “60 Minutes” deceptively edited an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris an act Trump rightly called “the very definition of fake news.”

The lawsuit stemmed from a televised interview aired just one month before the 2024 election. The issue? A promotional clip released by CBS showed Harris fumbling through a disjointed answer about Israel’s war against Islamic terror groups. But when the full interview aired, the American people saw a much cleaner, more coherent version an obvious case of selective editing designed to protect a failing vice president.

Here’s what CBS didn’t want you to hear:

• In the promotional teaser, Harris offered a confusing mess “The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.”

• But when the interview aired, that garbled response was replaced with a more polished reply: “We are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”

• That incoherent original answer never appeared on the broadcast, YouTube, the show’s transcript, or its “Overtime” segment.

The American people were effectively lied to, and Trump made sure someone paid the price. CBS’s decision to settle the lawsuit, rather than face a courtroom and public scrutiny, is an admission in all but name.

This is not just about one interview. It's about the broader issue of a corporate media apparatus that consistently manipulates narratives to benefit Democrats. We’ve seen this time and time again from the Russian collusion hoax to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, which a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll later showed could have changed the election outcome for 17% of Biden voters.

The terms of the settlement make it clear that this wasn’t just a nuisance payout:

• $16 million goes directly to Trump to cover legal fees and other costs.

• Additional funds potentially in the mid-eight figures may be used by the network to support public messaging aligned with conservative causes.

• Paramount has agreed to release full, unedited transcripts of future presidential candidate interviews something they should have done from the start.

Even members of the Senate Republican leadership spoke out, including Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), both demanding CBS release the full Harris interview. And they’re right because if the Democrats and Kamala Harris have nothing to hide, then transparency should be welcome, not avoided.

CBS may not have admitted wrongdoing publicly, but the payout speaks volumes. Trump once again proves he’s not just running to win an election he’s fighting to restore truth and accountability in America’s media landscape.

This isn’t just a win for Trump it’s a win for every American tired of media manipulation and Democratic cover-ups.

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