Shari Redstone said she partly welcomed President Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News because she believed it could address the network’s anti-Israel bias — even as she revealed that it was the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks that finally moved her to sell CBS parent Paramount.

“We needed more balance,” Redstone, former chair of Paramount Global, told the New York Times in interviews conducted after Paramount’s $8 billion sale to Skydance Media closed earlier this month.

“Part of me thought, maybe Trump could accomplish what I never got done,” the entertainment heiress told the Times. 6

Redstone told the Times that for years she had resisted entreaties from potential suitors eager to buy Paramount. What pushed her to finally agree to sell the family business was the Oct. 7 massacre of

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