YouTube agreed to pay $ 24.5 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump and other plaintiffs after he was suspended from the platform in 2021, according to a presentation of the court.
According to the presentation, $ 22 million will be used to support the construction of Trump of a state dance hall of the White House and will be carried out in an exempt tax entity called Trust for the National Mall.
Another $ 2.5 million will go to the other plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including the American conservative union, Andrew Baggiani, Austen Fletcher, Maryse Veronica Jean-Louis, Frank Valentine, Kelly Victory and Naomi Wolf, according to the file.
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“This notice of liquidation and stipulation of dismissal will not constitute an admission of responsibility or failure by the defendants or their agents, servants or employees, and all parties enter with the sole purpose of compromising disputed claims and avoiding the expenses and risks of additional litigation,” said the file.
A Google spokesman, owner of YouTube, sent ABC News to the liquidation notification when he contacted to comment on Monday.
YouTube suspended Trump’s account after the attack of January 6, 2021 against the United States Capitol, saying at that time that a loaded video violated its policy for inciting violence. He restored the Trump channel more than two years later, citing that voters could “also listen to the main national candidates in the period prior to an election.”
Trump’s demand claimed that YouTube prevented him from “exercising his constitutional right of freedom of expression” by indefinitely prohibit him from the platform.
YouTube is the last social networks that agrees to solve with Trump this year about the suspension of its accounts after the January 6 attack against the Capitol.
President Donald Trump arrives at a press conference with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the state dining room of the White House, on September 29, 2025, in Washington.
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In January, Meta agreed to resolve with Trump making a donation of $ 22 million to his presidential library and paying $ 3 million in legal fees, according to a letter from the target lawyers.
In February, X agreed to pay around $ 10 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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