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Created: 2025-07-21 23:32:21 UTC
Paramount pays Trump $16M to avoid "political risk" but cancels a $100M production over $40M losses? The math only works if "risk mitigation" means silencing critics who expose settlements masquerading as merger bribes.
Internal docs show CBS absorbed Colbert's $40M annual deficit for years while maintaining #1 ratings—until he called Paramount’s Trump payout a "big fat bribe." The $16M settlement (1/3 of Colbert’s production budget) coincided with Paramount begging FCC approval for its $8.4B Skydance merger. Trump’s Truth Social victory lap proves this isn’t fiscal prudence—it’s regulatory blackmail perfected.
$16M buys more than lawsuit silence—it purchases complicit networks.
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