Sanders rips Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump: ‘Dark day for freedom of the press’

Sanders rips Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump: ‘Dark day for freedom of the press’


Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lambasted Paramount Global’s decision on Wednesday to settle with President Donald Trump for $16 million over editing choices in CBS News’s 60 Minutes election special that made former Vice President Kamala Harris look more favorable.

Sanders claimed independent media were under attack following the settlement of Trump’s lawsuit.

“It is a dark day for freedom of the press. Paramount’s decision to settle with Trump will only embolden him to continue his attack on the media,” the independent senator, who caucuses with Democrats, posted on X. “Trump is undermining our democracy and moving us towards authoritarianism, and the billionaires are helping him do it.”

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A longer statement followed, with Sanders arguing that CBS’s parent company had set an “extremely dangerous precedent” regarding the

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