Settling these lawsuits Trump brings can be a form of legal bribery. [View all]
I was watching Andrew Weissmann on the Bulwark podcast and they were talking about some of these BS lawsuits that Trump is slapping news networks with like the ABC suit just settled, and now Paramount is talking about settling the suit because 60 Minutes had a promo for their Harris interview. Both of course total BS they would win.
But he brought up that Paramount is looking to do some large merger and thus might settle this lawsuit and pay Trump. This could be looked at as a way to legally pay a bribe (or blackmail) to Trump personally that you could not pay otherwise. And they get their merger green lighted.
He even mentioned that Trump has a 100 million dollar lawsuit against the government because of the document search and seizure at Mar a Lardo. He could not just order the DOJ to settle that lawsuit and pay himself the settlement.
I thought this was an important way of looking at this and would explain why the settlements on a winnable case. Just another grift.
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