The White House is reportedly negotiating a Donald Trump interview on 60 Minutes, just months after Paramount paid the president $16 million over the show’s editing of a Kamala Harris interview.
CBS staff had been preparing for a sit-down in New York, while Trump was in the city for a United Nations speech and the Ryder Cup, but plans slipped, according to Semafor.
Haggling over the interview comes after CBS tweaked its journalism to mollify Trumpworld.
The White House is understood to be insisting the conversation go out unedited. Semafor says that the interview is likely to “present Trump with the opportunity to take a victory lap on the airwaves of a network that recently cut him a large check.”
In July, Paramount settled Trump’s suit—filed under Texas consumer-law claims—without