Table time: How Donald Trump has become very important to push millions in an interview with one CBS

president Donald Trump A lawsuit against CBS News and her mother company, Paramount Global, was filed in October 2024, on an interview about “60 minutes” with the president of the will, Kamala Harris at the time. Trump accused the deceptive editing and intervention of the elections.

The lawsuit and its subsequent leveling have far -reaching effects and are launched in a severe debate on the ethics of the media and accountability, as well as the intervention of companies.

Fox News digital Exactly what happened – from the final payment to speculation about the reason for the settlement of Paramount and what the case has received since then.

What happened:

October 8, 2024: CBS ’60 Minute “broadcasts two different answers from former Vice President Kamala Harris to the same question | He watches

• The former conservatives mocked Vice President Kamala Harris when he did not listen to her “long word power” when he was asked why it appears that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not listening to the United States to “confront” CBS “on Sunday to promote” 60 minutes. “However, Harris’s long answer did not make the version that was broadcast in” 60 minutes “on Monday night, and a shorter and more focused answer was presented to the same question instead From that.

October 18, 2024: The former Federal Communications Commissioner explains whether CBS News can be in hot water due to liberation | He watches

• The American Rights Center has argued that CBS contradictions “reach deliberate news – a violation of the rules of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) that governs the public interest obligations of broadcasters”, and officially complained to the Federal Communications Committee. His priority was to make sure that the public was not misled.

October 20, 2024: CBS breaks its silence on the allegations of liberation

• After Trump called on the network to lose a broadcasting license due to the liberation, the CBS network informed a statement saying that any accusation of the deceptive liberation of “60 minutes” was “a mistake”, and that the candidate Trump at the time withdrew from an interview-which was denied by the Trump campaign. CBS also stated that “’60 Minuts” gave an excerpt from our interview to confront the nation, which used a longer section than “60 minutes”. The same question.

October 31, 2024: Trump sucks CBS News for $ 10 billion in a “deceptive doctorate” in the Harris interview “60 minutes”

• The news broke out that Trump was suing the CBS News for $ 10 billion in damage, noting that the network practiced a “deceptive behavior” for the purpose of interfering in the elections in a Harris interview. The amount was shocked later to $ 20 billion.
• Trump lawyers He said that the lawsuit was filed about the party “CBS” and the illegitimacy in the elections and the overlapping of the voters by distorting the malicious, deceptive and large news affiliated with the confusion, deception and misleading of the public. From her conclusion. ”

February 5, 2025: FCC releases CBS News ‘RAW’ 660 minutes

• Shortly after Trump’s opening, the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) released a non -average and video that CBS News delivered to meet Harris. The raw version of CBS News showed that the first half of its response to “60 minutes” about Netanyahu and not “listening” to the Biden administration in a examination clip that was broadcast on “confronting the nation”, but it only broadcast the second half of its response during a special time period.

April 14, 2025: Trump comes out in CBS News and “60 minutes”

• Trump participated in the social truth that he was “honored” to sue “60 minutes” because of the report he considered “fraudulent”, and said that the network should “pay a great price for this.” Then Trump continued to say that the network “did everything possible to illegally elect Kamala, including the complete and corrupt answers to the interview questions, but it did not succeed with them.”

April 23, 2025: “60 minutes” CEO Bill Owens suddenly resigned

• “60 minutes” CEO Bill Owens has suddenly left the CBS news program for a long time and made a statement that it was clear that he would not be able to manage the show as he did previously. Owens said: “Therefore, after they defended this offer – and what we offer – from every corner, over time with everything I can, I am aside so that the show can go forward.”

May 9, 2025: Paramount, the CBS’s parent company, face installation pressure

• Trump’s lawyers and Bramont entered mediation, indicating the company’s potential to resolve the lawsuit filed by Trump. The interview received Emmy’s nomination in the previous week with a “distinguished editorial interview”. Democratic lawmakers made a direct appeal from Shari Redston, the controlled shareholder in Paramount, for not settling the lawsuit, saying it would be a “great mistake.”

May 29, 2025: Trump rejects Paramount of $ 15 million to settle CBS news suit

• Trump rejected a $ 15 million offer to settle the case with Paramount. The president’s legal team demanded another $ 25 million and an apology from CBS News. Redstone has shown in the previous months that she wanted to settle Trump’s suit in the hope of clearing the path to integrate Paramount with billions of dollars with Skydance Media, which needed approval from FCC Trump.

July 1, 2025: Paramount, CBS pays eight numbers, changing the editorial policy in the settlement | He watches

• Paramount Global and CBS agreed to pay the Trump amount that could reach the north from $ 30 million to settle the president’s lawsuit against the network. Trump received $ 16 million in advance. This was to cover legal fees, the costs of the case and contributions in his future presidential library or charitable reasons, according to Trump’s discretion.
• There is awaiting that there will be another allocation in the eight numbers designated for advertisements, public service advertisements, or other similar transmission operations, to support the preservation reasons by the network in the future.

• Common sources with it Fox News digital CBS has agreed to update its editing standards to install a new mandatory base. To move forward, the network will issue complete, unbearable texts for future presidential candidates interviews. Persons participating in the settlement talks indicated this as the “Trump Base.”

July 7, 2025: The parent company is very angry at the settlement of Trump’s suit

• Paramount Global and CBS, consisting of eight numbers, caused widespread anger through legal and press societies. Many legal experts and Paramount attorneys insisted that the lawsuit was indisputable, but the parent company CBS settled it anyway.
• The numbers were not under Paramount’s umbrella, such as John Stewart, Stephen Kulbert, Skeat Billy and John Dicrson, hiding from mockery and contempt throughout the operation. The informers also told Fox News Digital They were angry and felt treason by the company’s executives who surrendered to Trump.
• In an interview with Stewart on Monday evening, “60 minutes” correspondent for a long time Steve Croft Paramount said He mainly surrendered to “Shakedown”.

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This report contributed to this report in the Fox News flood, Alba Kibas-Fantazi, Joseph Wolson, Brock Singman, Hanna Banner, Mark Tamasco and David Rotz.