The amount of $ 16 million will be paid to the future presidential library of Donald Trump and not directly to the President, paramount said in a statement quoted by American media.
The company also said that the agreement did not provide for any public excuse on its part.
Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren denounced the agreement which sees paramount “folding against Donald Trump” in his quest for a green light from the administration of the Republican to “its merger with several billion dollars” with Skydance.
“It could be corruption in view and at all,” she said in a statement.
The senator also calls for a “full investigation” to determine “if anti -corruption laws have been breaking” with this agreement. She announced that she would soon introduce a bill to the Congress to “restrict corruption through donations to presidential libraries”.
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Resignation
In the middle of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump had brought to court CBS News “60 -minute” program, accusing him of having deceived an interview with his rival Democrat Kamala Harris.
More specifically, he accused CBS News of having published a transition from the interview in which the candidate would have answered a question on the war between Israel and Hamas.
CBS News had rejected these accusations, explaining in particular that it was common in the profession to select the passages to be disseminated in an interview.
The judicial showdown started by Donald Trump against CBS News made waves, including the producer’s April departure and pillar of “60 minutes”, Bill Owens. He had deplored attacks on his journalistic independence.
A month later, the boss of CBS News, Wendy McMahon, had also resigned.
Very critical of the traditional media, Donald Trump launched legal attacks against other press companies, including the local newspaper The Moines Register, and folds ABC (Disney Group), which paid $ 15 million under the threat of a defamation trial.
Donald Trump’s “big and beautiful law” voted with a short voice in the Senate … before returning to the House of Representatives
