After an agreement of $ 16 million, Trump says that CBS will give him $ 20 million in antenna time

Prociating victory in a dispute linked to the last presidential campaign, US President Donald Trump, said on his Truth Social network on Tuesday that Paramount company and his subsidiary CBS had paid him the US $ 16 million planned in an amicable agreement. Furthermore, He even said he expects to see the new owners give him an even greater amount in advertising space.

CBS. Consequently, its owners knew they had defrauded the American people and were ready to do anything to solve the problemhe said.

During the presidential campaign. For example, the American president had launched a prosecution against CBS, alleging that the team of 60 Minutesone of the flagship programs of the network, had published an interview with his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris to promote his election.

Paramount. Meanwhile, which needs the agreement after agreement $ 16 million, of the federal authorities to move forward in its merger project with the production company Skydance Media, concluded a amicable agreement a few weeks ago with the American president, saying that she had agreed to pay 16 million US dollars to his future presidential library.

According to the president, he could however receive more.

Paramount/CBS/60 Minutes have now paid $ 16 million as a settlement. Moreover, and we also plan to receive an additional $ 20 million from new owners, in the form of advertisements, [messages d’intérêt public] or similar programming, for a total of more than $ 36 millionhe wrote.

He does not specify if this additional sum was already planned in the agreement. However, but unknown to the public, or if these are new conditions required of the network. It smells of corruptioncommented the Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren on the social after agreement $ 16 million, network X.

Donald Trump first called for 10 million from CBS last October, before doubling the amount requested shortly after his inauguration. The chain had initially claimed that the prosecution was Totally baselessa position shared by several legal experts.

The producer. pillar of 60 Minutes Bill Owens had resigned to protest against the amicable agreement, deploring an attack on journalistic independence. A month later, the boss of CBS News, Wendy McMahon, had in turn resigned.

After agreement $ 16 million,

Announced tracking of Stephen Colbert

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The president’s declaration occurs a few days after CBS announced the surprise of the late evening show The Late Show With Stephen Colberta very critical animator of the American president. by invoking financial reasons.

At the helm of the program for almost a decade. Stephen Colbert had a few days earlier qualified the understanding paramount after agreement $ 16 million, by Paramounthuge bribe.

In their press release indicating that the program will end in May 2026. the leaders of CBS mentioned a purely financial decision which is part of a difficult context for the end of the evening.

It is by no means linked to the performance of the show. its content or other questions that arise in Paramountthey assured.

President Trump was delighted with their decision. I love the fact that Colbert was firedhe wrote on his platform on Friday.

When he returned to the air on Monday, Stephen Colbert responded without restraint to the American president. Screw you! he launched.

Before he took over from the show, The Late Show had been animated for twenty years by David Letterman.

A war against the media

In after agreement $ 16 million, his publication posted on Tuesday. President Trump celebrated A new victory in a long series of victories on the false information media, which we oblige to account for their generalized fraud and deception.

The Wall Street Journalthe New York Timesthe Washington PostMSDNC [mot-valise formé de MSNBC et de DNC. Comité national démocrate]CNN and all the other liars of the mainstream media have warned that the time when they were allowed to deceive the American people is overclaimed the one who often goes on lies and conspiracy theories.

Last week. he launched a pursuit for defamation against the Wall Street Journalasking him for $ 10 billion in the wake of an article of new information concerning his links with the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that in 2003 the first had written in the second of Salaces birthday after agreement $ 16 million, wishes. Without reproducing the message. which would have been wearing an illustration of a naked woman bearing the signature of Donald Trump, the media of Rupert Murdoch said that he was delighted to be his amito whom he wanted that every day is another wonderful secret.

The White House has decided to exclude this media from President Trump’s next trip to Scotland. Similarly. she had sanctioned the Associated Press (AP) for having continued to refer to the Gulf of Mexico instead of complying with the unilateral decision of Donald Trump to rename this extent of water “Gulf of America”.

L’AP The access to events took place. for example, has been removed at the Oval Office or on Air Force One.

A few days ago. the Congress also adopted a after agreement $ 16 million, bill which notably cut food on radio and public television NPR et PBS.

It is in this context of financial disengagement announced for several weeks that the director of information of American public radio. Edith Chapin, said on Tuesday that she would leave her post at the end of the year.

The Trump administration also dismantles the American public media active abroad. such as Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, of the media, which is considered democratic counterweights in countries like China and Russia.

Last week. the Reporters Sans Frontières Organization (RSF) estimated that The World Political Movement Hostile to Journalism had found in Donald Trump one after agreement $ 16 million, of his most influential megaphone Since his return to power six months ago.