Colbert for President?

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12. They would have had to buy out Colbert's contract

I don’t think the cancellation was a demand/condition of the settlement with Trump, as Colbert now has 10 I-don’t-give-a-fuck months to go scorched earth on Trump.

If Trump wanted Colbert off the air as a condition of the settlement, he would have made CBS eat the cost of buying out his contract rather than keeping him on the air for 10 more months.

Now cancelling Colbert as a strategy to help get the merger approved, and to make the merger more attractive to the buyer, that’s possible.

Of course, it could just come down to Sheri Redstone exacting revenge for Colbert’s monologue a few days earlier blasting the settlement as a bribe…