Trump’s January 6th Twitter lawsuit settled for ‘about $10 million’

Feb 13, 2025 07:19 AM - 1 month ago 50090

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Elon Musk’s X has agreed to salary President Donald Trump “about $10 million” to settee his suit against Twitter, reports The Wall Street Journal. The colony would travel connected apical of an estimated $250 million that Musk, who now seemingly has wide authority complete authorities agencies arsenic the caput of DOGE, put toward helping Trump get elected past year.

Trump sued Twitter, Facebook, and Google complete his relationship suspensions pursuing the January 6th, 2021, riot astatine the US Capitol, and a judge dismissed this lawsuit successful 2022, rejecting arguments that the institution was a authorities character aliases that Section 230 is unconstitutional.

While Trump’s lawsuit against Google is still pending, Meta decided to settle pinch Trump for $25 million precocious past month.

Before that, ABC News agreed to settle Trump’s defamation suit for $15 million. And past month, the Journal reported Paramount Global was considering caving connected Trump’s $10 cardinal suit complete the editing of a Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview.

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