As Paramount reaches a $16 million settlement in a dispute over footage from “60 Minutes,” the Paramount-Skydance merger still hangs in the balance.

Paramount said it agreed to pay Trump’s legal fees. The remainder of the $16 million settlement will go toward his future presidential library. But the beleaguered company behind “Mission: Impossible” and “Yellowstone” mustered victories, withstanding the Trump team’s earlier demand for a $100 million payout, the knowledgeable sources said.

Trump had filed a $20 billion defamation suit against Paramount’s CBS subsidiary, alleging that “60 Minutes” deceptively edited an interview with Trump’s opponent that aired in the run-up to the presidential election.