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A $16 million payment to resolve a sitting president's lawsuit, structured partly as a contribution to his future presidential library, is either a routine litigation decision or evidence that corporate self-interest shapes editorial choices.
For Paramount Global and CBS, that distinction has not been settled by the settlement itself. Rosie O'Donnell made the case on Ana Navarro's podcast "Bleep!
with Ana Navarro" on Monday that CBS "capitulated," calling the July 2025 agreement "unforgivable." What O'Donnell said, and the Colbert thread O'Donnell's argument echoed Stephen Colbert's almost exactly.
Colbert called the CBS settlement a "big fat bribe" on "The Late Show" last year, framing it against Paramount's pending federal approval of its Skydance merger.
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