Stephen Colbert rifted the regulations of $ 16 million in the overall paramount of the Donald Trump trial, qualifying the payment of “big bridge pot” and joking about the prospects that the new Skydance owner will try to put him back from the humor led by the president.
In a Monday clip The late show Published on social networks, Colbert joked in his monologue: “As a person who has always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended, and I do not know if Nothing I will never fix my confidence in this company. But the simple fact of taking it, I would say that $ 16 million would help. »»
Colbert had left when Paramount and Trump team announced the settlement earlier this month. Trump had continued CBS on the way that 60 minutes published an interview with Kamala Harris at the top of the 2024 elections. Many legal experts considered the trial as without merit, just like the legal team of Paramount-CBS, but the company needs approval of the Trump administration for its merger with Skydance.
Colbert also declared in his monologue: “These regulations are for a harmful trial that Trump has brought, saying that 60 minutes He published his interview with Kamala Harris, then, last fall. Paramount knows that they could easily have fought it because in their own words, the trial was “completely without merit”. And keep in mind, Paramount produced Transformers: Rise of the Beast. They know completely without merit.
Colbert added: “Now, unlike ABC and Twitter gains, the Paramount rules did not include excuses. It is good. Instead, the company published a statement where they said:” You can take our money, but you will never take our dignity.
“Now, I believe that this kind of complicated financial settlement with an exercise civil servant has a technical name in legal circles: it is a big bribes, because all this comes while the owners of Paramount try to bring the Trump administration to approve the sale of our network to a new owner, Skydance.”
Colbert has also shown a Puck title. “Some of the television typing are blogs that Skydance obtains CBS, the new owner’s desire to please Trump could put pressure on the end of the evening and the frequent critic of Trump Stephen Colbert.” Colbert then underlined his new mustache. “But how are they going to put pressure on Stephen Colbert if they can’t find it?”
By announcing the regulations, Paramount said that “the trial is completely separated and unrelated to the Skydance transaction and the FCC approval process”. The transaction is still pending before the FCC. Some legislators, such as senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), called for an investigation to see if anti-corruption laws were raped.
