Trump settles lawsuit against Univision
The furor over Trump’s remarks, made in June at the formal announcement of his candidacy, forced NBC to join Univision in hastily dropping the July 12 Miss USA telecast in protest.
He said he had known Univision’s president and CEO, Randy Falco, for two decades. The terms of the settlement were confidential, according to a news release.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a… The network refused to host the contest after Trump made derogatory remarks toward illegal immigrants from Mexico, saying they brought drugs and crime to the U.S.
Donald Trump sued the Spanish language broadcaster last Summer for not airing the beauty pageant.
Ultimately, after Univision decided not to air the program, and NBCU decided not to move forward with Miss USA, the pageant aired on Reelz. Trump’s side initially accused Univision of engaging in a “politically motivated attempt to suppress Mr. Trump’s freedom of speech under the First Amendment as he begins to campaign for the nation’s presidency”.
It later announced it would replace Trump as host of NBC’s reality TV show The Celebrity Apprentice with Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Trump filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision, claiming that political interference from one of Univision’s owners, prominent Democratic fundraiser Haim Saban, drove the company’s decision to back out of the contract. In a separate allegation, Trump said the network’s president of programming Alberto Ciurana defamed him by posting a photograph of him on Instagram side-by-side with Charleston shooter Dylan Roof, who now awaits trial for murdering nine people in an historic black church.