President Trump and Paramount World are in “lively settlement discussions” amid a lawsuit that Trump filed in opposition to the corporate over an interview that CBS’ 60 Minutes aired final 12 months with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
The revelation got here in a movement filed Friday by Trump’s attorneys asking for an extension within the deadlines in his lawsuit in opposition to Paramount World, mother or father firm of CBS.
The movement states that either side “respectively submit that good trigger to increase the deadlines set forth within the desk beneath exists as a result of the Events are engaged in lively settlement discussions, together with continued mediation.”
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Trump alleges within the lawsuit that CBS Information aired a “closely tampered interview” with Harris to assist her within the election by modifying sure solutions in a approach that misled viewers. Trump’s crew alleges that this constitutes a violation of Texas’ client safety legislation masking misleading promoting and the unfair competitors prong of the Lanham Act, a trademark legislation.
As beforehand reported, the 2 sides are presently in mediation talks to attempt to resolve the swimsuit.
Paramount reportedly beforehand provided $15 million to resolve the swimsuit, which it additionally sought to dismiss earlier this 12 months. In the meantime, the FCC is reviewing the interview through its “information distortion” purview.
The submitting comes two weeks after Paramount World added three new board administrators because it offers not solely with the lawsuit but in addition the proposed merger of Skydance Media and Paramount World.
Earlier this month, Paramount chair Shari Redstone revealed she had been identified with thyroid most cancers.