CBS Owner Says Handing Trump $16M Was a ‘No-Brainer’

The former owner of Paramount Global chair said giving Donald Trump $16 million to settle his complaint over 60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris interview was a “no brainer.”

“I believed it was always in Paramount’s best interest to settle,” Shari Redstone, 71, told The New York Times in her first major interview since selling to David Ellison’s Skydance. “We may not like the world we live in, but a board has to do what’s in the best interest of shareholders.

Paramount Global's controlling shareholder Shari Redstone is trying to sell her company to David Ellison's Skydance. / Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

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