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Trump Throws Multi-Billion Dollar Tantrum

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Will Saletan discuss Trump’s $20 billion demand in lawsuit against CBS over 60 Minutes' interview edit of Kamala Harris, and the bizarre legal claims and plaintiffs behind it.

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0:00.0

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0:24.4

Trump lawsuit against 60 minutes over editing that is happening. It's actually a lawsuit

0:29.6

against Paramount. A couple of new stories that broke over the past 24 hours that have both

0:34.0

perplexed me and to a degree I've been humored by one of them.

0:38.4

The main story was from Wall Street Journal.

0:40.8

Paramount has offered Trump $15 million, I believe, to settle this lawsuit.

0:45.7

Let me just let's step back.

0:46.9

Trump wants, I believe, $20 billion, which is extraordinary.

0:51.9

$20 billion for CBS's editing of this transcript, which they didn't, you do that for every

0:58.9

interview, but whatever. Paramount says, here's $15 million. Trump says, no, I want 25 plus. I want

1:06.7

an apology from CBS as well. And although, by the way, I'm going to threaten another lawsuit. So it looks like that's going pretty well. First, we'll do that one. And then I want to get to the variety story about the Trump side of the equation, which I think is hysterical for a number of different reasons. But what did you make of what I think is essentially just a shakedown? And in another way, you can call it a form of bribery to get this

1:28.2

merger done but what did you make of it oh sam it's totally a shakedown it's totally by the way

1:33.2

for anybody if you if you guys heard sam say what sounded like a million no he said billion

1:39.3

billion you said like we need mike me in here to like, 100 billion dollars.

1:47.4

Gentlemen.

1:48.5

You asked that. There we go.

1:51.5

This is like kind of like the Trump trade negotiations where he's like 145% tariff on here.

2:00.0

145% tariffs on China.

2:02.8

And that is basically an embargo.

2:05.2

They deserve it.

2:06.1

And then like a week later, he's like, that seems really high.

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