Trump Reportedly Rejects $15 Million Offer to Settle Absurd 60 Minutes Lawsuit

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

May 28th, 2025, 7:01 pm


President Donald Trump has rejected a settlement offer of $15 million from Paramount after he sued the company over a 60 Minutes interview last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Wall Street Journal broke the news of the offer on Wednesday.

CBS aired two different parts of a response that Harris – then the Democratic presidential nominee – gave to a question. One part of the response was in a teaser for the show, and the other was aired on the show itself.

Legal experts have widely mocked the suit as meritless, but Shari Redstone, who controls Paramount and its subsidiary CBS News, is looking to sell the company to Skydance Media, which is owned by Oracle founder Larry Ellison. That massive transaction would have to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission, which is run by Trump loyalists.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/trump-reportedly-rejects-paramounts-15-million-offer-to-settle-absurd-60-minutes-lawsuit/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Then see you in court, Sucka!

[Harker]

2. Extortion, as usual.

More, more, more.

[Vinca]

3. Paramount shouldn't fold, they should go to court. The case is stupid.

[underpants]

10. Paramount has a merger they need approved. They are leaning heavily on CBS News

which is why the producer of 60 Minutes and the President of CBS News quit. Paramount wants nice stories about Trump so he doesn’t throw a fit and kill their merger with Skydance.

[Bengus81]

12. And...that when I'll cancel my long held Paramount+ when

they give that POS anything. Make a FUCKING stand against this tyranny Paramount.

[Scrivener7]

4. Ah, yes. The heroic press, at it again. They should not have offered a penny.

[Paladin]

5. Smooth move there, Paramount.

Encouraging trump's open-and-obvious extortion racket. Thanks for absolutely nothing.

[atreides1]

6. Bribery

This is Shari Redstone trying to bribe a government official...in order to get approval for a merger that will net her millions of dollars!!!

[MacKasey]

7. Paramount should demand a speedy trial

[k_buddy762]

8. Didn't that press secretary lady

sue whatever company is behind The View and win? A defamation suit or something from what I was told.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. I want it to go before a jury of sane Americans.

[groundloop]

11. The same "sane" Americans who put tRump back in the White House?

[Bengus81]

13. By a mere 2M. No...there are plenty of sane people out there

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Does the US have a rule that if you reject an offer to settle, go to trial, and win the case, but with lower damages

than the offer, you lose out further (eg, I believe in the UK, you have to pay the costs of the respondent)? The idea is that you were wasting everyone's time by being greedy.

[Dr. Strange]

16. I don't know that it's a rule...

but it definitely has happened in other cases. (I believe there was a copyright case that had that outcome.)

[Doodley]

15. This is sickening that they caved to his extortion racket---makes Paramount corrupt for trying to buy Trump's favor.

[Martin68]

17. They should not have made the offer in the first place.It is a blatant bribe to escape retribution for doing their job.

[FakeNoose]

18. Chump's only motive is revenge

... while Shari Redstone's only motive is greed. This stupid lawsuit shouldn't even exist, but here we are.