Trump sets motion to refuse the Paramount Dismissal of ’60 Minutes’

President Trump’s legal team filed an objection Paramount GlobalThe step to reject its $ 20 billion court case against CBS About one “60 minutes“Segment, with the argument that the alleged misleading adaptation of an interview with Kamala Harris is not protected by the first amendment.

Trump The lawsuit against CBS only a few days before the presidential elections of 2024Claiming that the “60 minutes” interview with Harris was violating a Texas Consumer Protection Law by misleading misleading voters and caused Trump personal financial damage. His lawsuit initially asked for $ 10 billion compensation. In February, the president the complaint changed to search at least $ 20 billion.

In a motion of March 2025 to reject Trump’s lawsuit, Paramount called the legal steps “An insult to the first amendment” That is “without a basis in the law or fact.” CBS News has sustained that the “60 minutes” broadcast and the promotion of the Harris interview “was not procacted or deceptive”.

Meanwhile, lawyers for Paramount and Trump are working on settlements. Paramount offered $ 15 million to arrange the suit – an amount rejected by Trump, according to one report Through the Wall Street Journal. Trump’s lawyers want more than that, and they want “60 minutes” to give an apology to the president, according to the magazine article. In addition, the team of Trump’s lawyers’ threatened another lawsuit against CBS in the midst of the settlements, according to the WSJ report.

On Wednesday (May 28), lawyers served for Trump and his co-requirer, rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), their opposition against the motion of Paramount to fire.

An important point of Trump’s legal argument is that the edited versions of the “60 minutes” represent Harris-Interview commercial speech, and that-as claimed in the lawsuit of the President-CBS competes for advertising with Trump’s media companies, including the parent company Trump of President).

With the edited Harris interview, the behavior of CBS, including news removal, was commercial speech that cannot be found reasonably interpretation as an editorial judgment, and that speech damaged claimants, “said Trump’s application.” The fact that such a commercial speech was issued by a news organization is notolated the defendants does not insulate the defendants of the defendants of the defendants of the defendants of the defendants of the defendants “” “” “”

‘[T]The first amendment is not a shield for news worship, “said the Trump team submitted.

According to the application, the “60 minutes” adaptation of the Harris interview “led to widespread confusion and mental fear of consumers, including claimants, with regard to a understanding of the legacy media who apparently deceptively distort the broadcasts and then oppose attempts to erase the public record.”

A copy of the motion of the Trump team, submitted to the American court for the Northern district of Texas, is on This link.

The legal battle is because Paramount seeks the government’s approval for her $ 8 billion merger with Skydance Media. Three left -wing American senators have warned Shari Redstone, the controller of Paramount, that such a settlement payment of the most part has been made to the president would amount to an illegal briberyAlthough legal experts say it is very unlikely that the media company could get such a indictment.

The Paramount-Kydance deal is currently awaiting FCC approval. Trump-appointed FCC chairman Brendan Carr has retained the approval of the Paramount-Skydance Agency, is not connected to the “60 minutes” lawsuit of the president. Last November Carr said in a Fox News interview that a conservative group Complaint “News worming” Against CBS during the “60 minutes” Harris interview “was probably in the context of the FCC assessment of [the Paramount-Skydance] Transaction. “Paramount Global has said that Trump’s lawsuit” is completely separated from and is not related to the Skydance transaction and the FCC approval process. ”

In February Redstone asked the Paramount board to resolve the Trump right case, also by investigating the possibility of mediation” Variety has reported. Redstone has withdrawn from the discussions of the board about a settlement with Trump.

In response to an FCC request In the investigation of the “new distortion” complaint, CBS News made an unprocessed transcript of the “60 minutes” interview with Harris that was broadcast on October 6, 2024 (available on This link) And said that the materials showed that “consistent with 60 minutes of repeated guarantees for the public”, the broadcast “was not procacted or decorative.”

Center the Claims of the Trump an exchange In which “60 minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker Harris asked about the relationship of the Biden government with the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who said Whitaker “does not listen” to the White House. CBS Nieuws broadcasts a longer part of Harris’ Response on ‘Face the Nation’ on October 6, while the edited ’60 minutes’ segment broadcast contained a shorter fragment from the same answer the next day. “Each fragment reflects the content of the vice president,” said CBS News in a statement.

In a separate case, Trump sued ABC News and George Stephanopoulos last year after the anchor had incorrectly stated that Trump had been found liable for rape. (A jury in New York found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll.) In December 2024, Disney and ABC News agreed to pay $ 15 million to arrange Trump’s defamation Plus $ 1 million in legal costs.