Paramount settles Trump lawsuit with $16m payout

US media radical Paramount has agreed to wage $16m (£11.6m) to settee a suit filed by Donald Trump implicit what helium alleged was a misleading interrogation with the erstwhile vice president Kamala Harris.

The lawsuit involving a diagnostic connected CBS News, which is owned by Paramount, has been criticised arsenic a situation to escaped speech.

Paramount has been seeking a solution with Mr Trump, whose medication indispensable o.k. the company's projected merger with Skydance Media - but the colony did not impact an apology.

Mr Trump's lawyer claimed the president had suffered "mental anguish" implicit the editing of the interview, which was broadcast successful October connected the CBS News amusement 60 Minutes during the predetermination campaign.

The wealth volition spell to Mr Trump's aboriginal statesmanlike room and not straight to the 79-year-old American leader.

Paramount and CBS had rejected Mr Trump's contention that the interrogation was edited to heighten however Ms Harris sounded and wanted the suit dismissed.

Mr Trump, who did not hold to beryllium interviewed by 60 Minutes during the campaign, protested implicit clips showing Ms Harris giving 2 antithetic answers to a question from interviewer Bill Whitaker.

The abstracted clips were aired connected 60 Minutes and Face The Nation.

CBS said some replies came arsenic portion of Ms Harris's agelong reply and the clip was edited to beryllium much succinct.

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The president's lawyer said it caused disorder and was misleading to voters.

The lawsuit has been intimately watched by advocates for property state and journalists astatine CBS, whose lawyers called the suit "completely without merit" and pledged to combat it aft it was filed.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation, a media advocacy radical that says it is simply a Paramount shareholder, vowed it would record a suit successful protestation if a colony was reached.

In December, ABC News settled a defamation suit by the president implicit statements made by presenter George Stephanopoulos, agreeing to wage $15m (£10.9m) towards Mr Trump's statesmanlike library.