Terms: How Donald Trump received a priority of millions for one interview CBS

President Donald Trump In October 2024, in October 2024, in the court name, with an interview with 60 minutes with President Kamal Harris, a Paramount Global court in the court named after the 60th minute. Trump has accused of deceptive editing and interference.

The lawsuit and its next settlement have far-reaching consequences and have launched a hard discussion on media ethics and accountability, as well as corporate intervention.

Digital Fox News Digital It breaks down exactly what happened – from the final payment to the assumption of why Paramount is settled and which has since been a lawsuit.

What happened:

October 8 2024: CBS ’60 minutes ” – these are two different answers of the former Vice President Kamal Harris to the same question | Watch

• Former Vice President Kamal Harris was bullying with the Conservatives when the footage offered a long answer “Salad with words” when asked why it seemed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not listen to that the US on the “CBS” “Fullets” on Sunday. However, the long response of Harris did not make a version that aired on “60 minutes” on Monday, and instead showed a shorter, purposeful answer to the same question.

Bill Witcier and Kamala Harris. (Screenshots/News CBS)

18 October 2024: The former FCC commissioner explains whether CBS News is in hot water over editing | Watch

• The US Rights Center claimed that the CBS inconsistencies “make a deliberate misrepresentation of the FCC rules that regulate the public interests of broadcasters” and officially complained about the FCC. The former Commissioner Commission of the Communications Commission (FCC) Nathan Simington – appointed Trump in 2020 – stated that his priority was to make sure the public had not been misleading.

October 20 2024: CBS violates silence about editing charges

• After Trump urged the network to lose a broadcasting license regarding editing, CBS issued a statement saying that any charge of deceptive editing from 60 minutes was “false”, and that Trump’s candidate pulled out of Trump’s interview. The CBS also stated that “60 minutes” gave an excerpt of our interview to “face the nation”, which used a longer section of its response than in 60 minutes. “

October 31, 2024: Trump sues

• The news that Trump sued CBS News for $ 10 billion, saying that the network is practicing “deceptive behavior” for the purpose of the election in an interview with Harris. Later, the amount was stuck to a tremendous $ 20 billion.
• Trump’s lawyers He said the lawsuit was filed with “guerrilla and illegal actions of election and interference of CBS voters through malicious, deceptive and significant distortions of news, designed for confusion, deception and misleading society.” Trump’s lawyers also claimed that the edits were made, trying to “try to populate the scale for the benefit of the Democratic Party, since the heated presidential election in 2024 – the President Trump headed – is approaching her.”

February 5 2025: FCC releases CBS News News “RAW” 60 minutes

• Shortly after the opening of Trump, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) published an unprocessed transcript and video transmitted by CBS News about her interview with Harris. The raw transcript showed that CBS News aired only in the first half of her response to “60 minutes” about Netanyahu, not “listening” to the Biden Administration in the previous video that came out on “Face The Nation”, but only came out in the other half of her response during a special prime.

President Trump’s lawsuit against 60 minutes and CBS News regarding Kamala’s interview editing last year led to an eight -digit settlement. (Left: (photo Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Center: Screenshot/60 minutes, right: (Photo Andy Manis/Getti Image)

14 April 2025: Trump pounces on CBS News and “60 minutes”

• Trump shared on the social truth that he “respected” to court for 60 minutes for the report that he considered “fake”, and said that the network should “pay for this great price”. Trump then continued to say that the network “did her best to unlawfully select Kamal, including a fully and corrupt change of basic interview questions, but it just didn’t work for them.”

April 23, 2025: Bill Owns’s executive producer leaves sharply

• 60 minutes executive producer Bill Owns abruptly left a long -standing CBS news program and made a statement that it was clear that he would not be able to run the show as he had done before. “So, defending this show – and what we stand for – on all sides, over time with everything I could, I retreat aside to make the show forward,” Owns said.

9 May 2025: Paramount, parent company CBS News, face mounting pressure

• Trump and Paramount lawyers entered mediation by signing the company’s potential readiness to decide the lawsuit filed by Trump. The interview received Amy’s nomination a week before the “perfectly edited interview”. Democratic legislators made a direct request to the Redstone ball, which controls the Paramount shareholder, so as not to resolve the trial, saying it would be a “serious mistake”.

29 May 2025: Trump rejects Paramount $ 15 million to resolve CBS News

• Trump has rejected $ 15 million to resolve the claim with Paramount. The president’s legal team demanded another $ 25 million and apologies from CBS News. In the previous months, Redstone made it clear that she wanted to resolve Trump’s lawsuit in the hope of clearing the path to a multimillion -planned Paramount merger of Media Skydance Media, which requires FCC Trump’s approval.

July 1 2025: Paramount, CBS pays eight digits, change editorial policy in calculations | Watch

• Paramount Global and CBS agreed to pay Trump an amount that could reach north from $ 30 to $ 30 to resolve the president’s claim against the network. Trump got $ 16 million forward. It was to cover court charges, costs and contribution to its future presidential library or charitable reasons that will be determined at Trump’s discretion.
• There is an expectation that in eight figures another distribution for advertisements, public service ads, or other similar assists in support of conservative reasons in the future will be allocated.

• Sources that are shared with Digital Fox News Digital that CBS has agreed to update its editorial standards to set a new mandatory rule. Going forward, the network immediately release full, unprocessed transcripts of future interviews for presidential candidates. People involved in the calculations call it a “Trump” rule.

July 7 2025: CBS maternal company causes large -scale indignation with Trump’s trial settlement

• Paramount Global and an eight -digit CBS settlement has caused extensive indignation in legal and journalistic communities. Many legal experts and Paramount lawyers insisted that the trial was ruthless, but the parent company CBS still resolved.
• The figures under the Paramount umbrella like John Stewart, Stephen Kolbert, Scott Pali and John Dickesson did not hide their bullying and disdain throughout the process. Insiders also reported Fox News Digital They were angry and felt betrayed by company executives that seemed Trump.
• In an interview with Stewart on Monday, a longtime correspondent “60 minutes” Steve Croft said Paramount Essentially surrendered to “Shakedown”.

Paramount Global and CBS agreed to resolve the claim on President Trump’s electoral intervention against the network. (Al Drago/Bloomberg, Getty Images)

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Fox News’ Brain Flood, Alba Ceebas-Fantauzzi, Joseph WulfSohn, Brooke Singman, Hanna Panreck, Marc Tamasco and David Rutz made their contribution to this report.