President Trump and Paramount Global are in “active settlement discussions” amid a lawsuit that Trump filed against the company over an interview that CBS’ 60 Minutes aired last year with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
The revelation came in a motion filed Friday by Trump’s attorneys asking for an extension in the deadlines in his lawsuit against Paramount Global, parent company of CBS.
The motion states that both sides “respectively submit that good cause to extend the deadlines set forth in the table below exists because the Parties are engaged in active settlement discussions, including continued mediation.”
Trump alleges in the lawsuit that CBS News aired a “heavily tampered interview” with Harris to help her in the election by editing certain answers in a way that misled viewers. Trump’s team alleges that this constitutes a violation of Texas’ consumer protection law covering deceptive advertising and the unfair competition prong of the Lanham Act, a trademark law.
As previously reported, the two sides are currently in mediation talks to try and resolve the suit.
Paramount reportedly previously offered $15 million to resolve the suit, which it also sought to dismiss earlier this year. Meanwhile, the FCC is reviewing the interview via its “news distortion” purview.
The filing comes two weeks after Paramount Global added three new board directors as it deals not only with the lawsuit but also the proposed merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global.
Earlier this month, Paramount chair Shari Redstone revealed she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
