the Democratic party should go all in on holding these enabling companies accountable.

Wake me when it actually happens.

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If US Senators could bring federal criminal charges the Repub senators would have been doing it time and time again. They can't force the DOJ to act and this DOJ isn't bringing federal charges against Paramount.

Moreover, successfully bringing bribery or extortion charges against a party for settling a civil case is rare indeed.

his modus operandi maneuver.
Swindle, con, & cheat to get ahead.

Smartest thing we ever did.

republiSCUM control the DOJ and they won't prosecute anyone who bows down and kisses Krasnov's very ample, orange a$$.

"When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today,”

This is a shot across CBS' bow.

read that as madam, not not madman 🙄🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

make them fear the consequences if they don't pay, or even worse: REWARD them later when they "pay up"

and launder money....along with his personal Super? pac and don't forget the fortune he made off his Inaguration.......

Russian oligarchs renting apartments in his condo buildings, year round, but never even going there..Same with his office building offices........
5+000 a plate dinners at Mar-a-gago, with outrageous room fees.......... All the merchandise he sells on his MAGA website...........
Shoes, watches, bibles, cell phones, hats, shirts, flags, banners, coins, crypto, etc etc etc
The list is endless........the emollients law went out the window early in his first term, and he has capitalized on it exponentially Since them.....

The epitome of the saying: "The best politicians money can buy"...........

to shop for a judge~

That is so disappointing. Shame on CBS.

Ron Wyden, a Senator, can propose a law that limits the ability of the President to prohibit business combinations in order to force one of the merging companies to pay him. I'm positive that such a law will have enough votes to become law.

Why not go after them? Or any of a hundred others bowing to the great deceiver?

Harvard is still fighting them in court!

They seem like small potatoes 🥔

that is worth I think $8 billion. The perception of a potential "quid pro quo" of "settling" in order to assure government approval, is suspected here. The original lawsuit that 45 filed against CBS was something like $20 billion.

An $8 billion buyout is much more than tens or even hundreds of millions "pay or lose" when it comes to these various colleges and universities.

I listen to a great podcast called "the business" they have been talking about this for weeks and it's a bribe.

this is what happens when you deal with the orange asshole.

they offered him a slot to air his grievances, but he knew they would tear him a new one, so they chose to play his stupid little game.

they fucked around and found out.

California laws broken.
I recall Gov. Newsom say a month or so ago that they were looking into this.

CBS? I watch Colbert. That is all.
I quit networks long ago.

All these millions and millions of dollars that Trump and his administration keep "winning"..... break it down for me.... where does it go? Who gets what? How is it divvied up?

Is there even an attempt to make it look legit? Is it officially recorded for history somewhere?

that stuff is supposed to be deposited in the Treasury. Depending on how the settlement was drafted, some may then go out to specified "impacted" parties if designated in the settlement.

A portion of the $16 million goes to cover Trump's legal fees. The rest goes to the Trump library.

The convicted idiot never ends his lifelong crime spree of screwing as many people as he can.

Still doing it every single day.

of anything they will be found guilty of (if any).

The only and the best way to fight back is to launch a national boycott of CBS, CBS News, and everything Paramount, movies and cables included.

A clear example to the corrupt executives must be made by the sacrosanct We The People.

I hope the executives and lawyers who approved this 16 million dollar bribe are called before Congress to explain what the bribe was paid for? Subpoena them and the Trump lawyers (and their emails and travel records.)
The Republicans do not seem to be worried about electoral consequences. Maybe the Heritage Foundation has a secret Opus Dei plan for "Hungarian" style elections.

They made Trump, they can go to hell with him.

has to fucking stop.

My sincerest wish that the TSF, being what he is, sticks it to Paramount and doesn't allow the merger. He is running a protection racket, and some people seem happy to pay.

Many of the nation's top law firms reached agreements with Trump to not represent people he doesn't like. And, the point of the CBS payment isn't the $16 million, it's for the fact that they did it to have a chilling effect on other networks doing critical coverage in the future.

CBS caving breaks basic tenets of journalism, but unfortunately it's not just them. It's a master plan that's being executed by people who are smarter than Trump to establish authoritarian rule, or something that's very close to it. We need to push back in every possible way and pressure the entities that are in danger of caving or have caved. It's depressing that so many in America seem able to acquiesce to this.