Kamala Harris as his $20 billion lawsuit against the media giant heads into mediation this week. Trump's statement, in the form of a screed on social media, comes the same day as Paramount and Trump's lawyers are set to begin mediation on the suit.

President Donald Trump threatened legal action against The New York Times, calling the newspaper’s citation of legal experts’ opinion of his lawsuit against CBS “likely unlawful.”

Paramount’s interest in settling has dismayed CBS’s news division. The executive producer of “60 Minutes” abruptly resigned last week.