The Times<\/a><\/em>, CBS News executives and journalists were in attendance, including Bari Weiss and Norah O\u2019Donnell. The acting attorney general Todd Blanche was also present; the Justice Department, which Blanche oversees, still has to approve Paramount\u2018s $110 billion megadeal for\u00a0Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n\n\tInvitations for Thursday\u2019s event, that got out by Paramount and named Ellison as host, described the night as \u201chonoring the Trump White House.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWBD shareholders approved Ellison\u2019s impending Paramount merger on Tuesday, inching the deal closer to being accomplished.<\/p>\n
\n\tTrump gave remarks on the dinner for nearly an hour, The Times<\/em> reported, where Paramount\u2019s chief legal officer Makan Delrahim; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller were all also in attendance. <\/p>\n\n\tAnonymous CBS News journalists told The Times<\/em> they were \u201cshocked\u201d by the dinner, and nervous it could send a message of \u201ccoziness\u201d between the newsroom and the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\tThe event got here a couple of days before Saturday\u2019s White House Correspondents Dinner, which Trump will attend. CBS News, which is backed by Paramount, is planning to bring Secretary Pete Hegseth to the dinner.<\/p>\n
\n\tAlso on Saturday night, the Wall Street Journal<\/em> will accept the Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability, which \u201crecognizes a person or news gathering team for coverage of subjects and events of great national or regional importance according to the human and skilled qualities exemplified by the late Katharine Graham.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\tThe piece that was recognized was published on July 17, entitled \u201cJeffrey Epstein\u2019s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a fiftieth Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.\u201d It’s notably the report that led Trump to file a defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0owner News Corp., which detailed a 2003 letter from him to Jeffrey Epstein during which he wrote that they share a \u201cwonderful secret.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tA Florida federal judge dismissed the suit in April. U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles wrote within the order dismissing the lawsuit that Trump\u2019s legal team did not argue that the article was published by those named within the criticism with malicious intent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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