In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibly have lost in court.
Last December, the Disney Company paid Trump a thinly-disguised bribe—$15 million to Trump’s future presidential library—to settle a harassment lawsuit against ABC News over a segment mentioning E. Jean Carroll's victorious case against Trump.
In January, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta made a bribe-like payment of $25 million to Trump to settle a ridiculous lawsuit after the company followed its own well-understood guidelines and suspended Trump from Facebook and Instagram for inciting violence on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol. (Note that Congress did not uphold the same basic standards for removing a president from office.)
Most recently, Paramount paid Trump $16 million to settle an even more laughable lawsuit over how CBS “60 Minutes” had edited an interview with Kamala Harris. On top of the $16 million, Paramount has terminated the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as of May next year -- after top CBS News executives resigned in protest of Paramount's meddling in news content.
Implicit in each of these settlements is that these mega-conglomerate media corporations will be restraining and reducing content in the future that might displease Trump or whoever follows him to the throne of the imperial presidency.
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