In a near-midnight announcement on July 1, Paramount Global said it would pay $16 million “in total” to settle a lawsuit from President Trump, who sued over an interview that 60 Minutes conducted with Kamala Harris. Then, 16 hours later, the story took another turn when the New York Post ‘s Charles Gasparino reported that there was also a “side deal” that helped seal the pact worth up to $20 million of programming in support of conservative causes, which was immediately followed by Paramount clarifying that it wasn’t aware of such terms. And if it couldn’t get any more opaque, Trump later confirmed murmurs of the seemingly backroom settlement by saying he’d receive millions in advertising from the “new owners” of Paramount.

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