The Art of the Shakedown
How Trump turned garbage lawsuits into a billion-dollar protection racket — and why corporate America keeps paying up
On July 2, 2025, Paramount Global agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit that legal experts considered laughably frivolous. The supposed crime? CBS News edited an interview with Kamala Harris — something every news organization has done with every interview since the invention of television.
Trump had sued for $10 billion in damages o…
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