Donald Trump was already rich, but he just keeps getting richer thanks to the companies he’s sued for censorship and libel. Let’s remember: Paramount Global settled for $16 million for CBS News’ deceptively edited Kamala Harris interview, Meta forked over $25 million for suspending Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts following the events of January 6, ABC News parted with $15 million because hopelessly biased anchor George Stephanopoulos defamed him by saying he’d been been found liable for rape (false), and Twitter (now X) ponied up $10 million for suspending his account pre-Elon Musk.
Former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama are struggling to come up with funding for their presidential libraries, but Trump seems off to a fast start, since much of that settlement money comes in the form of donations to his future archive.
As Crocodile Dundee used to say in '80s commercials pitching Australian tourism, you can now throw “another shrimp on the barbie,” because YouTube has settled with the president for a cool $24.5 mil.
Twenty-two million of the haul will be given on Trump’s behalf to the Trust for the National Mall, the nonprofit formed to fund construction of the president’s $200 million White House ballroom.
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Two point five million of the settlement will go to other plaintiffs, such as the nonprofit American Conservative Union.
YouTube, like numerous other Big Tech companies, has been forced to eat crow after ruthlessly cancelling and censoring accounts that disagreed with the Biden party line on subjects like COVID, Jan. 6, or anything else Ole Joe didn’t like. It’s good that these companies are finally facing some degree of accountability, but maybe Joe Biden and his team should be forced to pay up as well, since it’s been well-documented by the House Judiciary Committee and others that they put heavy pressure on those companies to toe the line.
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For a couple of years there, it seemed as if a large part of America had lost its collective mind. It’s gratifying to see that being turned around, one settlement at a time.
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