Donald Trump boasts about Paramount payout in new “60 Minutes” interview: ‘They paid me some huge cash’

President Donald Trump could be very pleased about his $16 million settlement from CBS — a sense he went on 60 Minutes to share.

The forty fifth and now forty seventh president of the US sat down on Sunday for a sweeping interview with journalist Norah O'Donnell on 60 Minutes, the exact same program he sued the community's mum or dad firm, Paramount International, over final 12 months and settled with in July.

"Really, 60 Minutes paid me a lotta cash. And also you don't need to put this on, as a result of I don't wanna embarrass you," Trump advised O'Donnell in an unaired portion of their interview.

Their dialogue touched on a number of contentious fronts presently being superior by the Trump administration, from violent provocations in opposition to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, to the more and more unpopular immigration raids carried out by the Division of Homeland Safety.

"I'm positive you're not — you’ve an important — I feel you’ve an important, new chief, frankly, who's the younger lady that's main your entire enterprise is a superb from what I do know," Trump continued, referring to Bari Weiss, the previous New York Instances opinion columnist who was just lately put in as the top of CBS Information amid a large shakeup on the community.

In August, Paramount International accomplished a merger with a extensively critiqued and Congressionally investigated merger with Skydance Media, a company owned by David Ellison, son of billionaire Oracle founder and longtime Trump ally Larry Ellison. Only one month prior, Paramount settled a swimsuit introduced by Trump alleging misleading modifying within the 2024 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, allegedly to assist transfer the needle in her favor throughout her bid in opposition to the previous Apprentice host for the White Home.

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Final month, Skydance purchased Weiss' unbiased publication The Free Press for $150 million. She was subsequently appointed the brand new head of CBS Information, which oversees 60 Minutes.

"60 Minutes was compelled to pay me some huge cash as a result of they took [Harris'] reply out that was so dangerous it was election-changing, two nights earlier than the election, and so they put a brand new reply in. And so they paid me some huge cash for that," Trump continued within the new 60 Minutes interview. He then praised the Ellisons' Paramount takeover as "the best factor that's occurred in a very long time to a free and open and good press."

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One other regarding growth that occurred a month earlier than the Paramount-Skydance merger was the stunning cancellation of The Late Present franchise after 33 years on the air.

Although CBS characterised the choice on the time as "purely a monetary resolution in opposition to a difficult backdrop in late evening," critics blasted the transfer as one other conciliatory effort at appeasing Trump's FCC to make sure the merger went ahead.

David Letterman, who preceded Stephen Colbert on the helm of the late-night sequence from 1993-2015, referred to as the Ellisons "backside feeders" who made a "gutless" resolution.

You’ll be able to watch Trump's prolonged, full interview on 60 Minutes above.

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