Trump Sues CBS News For $10B Over Harris Interview

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Facts

  • Former US Pres. Donald Trump filed a $10B lawsuit against CBS News in a Texas court on Thursday over the network's Oct. 6 '60 Minutes' interview with Vice Pres. Kamala Harris.[1][2]
  • The lawsuit accuses CBS News of engaging in 'partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion.'[3]
  • This comes after Trump's attorneys threatened to take CBS News to court last week and called on the network to release the full version of the sit-down interview, claiming that CBS News 'intentionally misled the public by broadcasting a skillfully edited interview.'[4][5]
  • After CBS News aired the unedited interview, Trump alleged that the network replaced Harris' real answers with doctored responses 'to save her or, at least, make her look better.'[4]
  • However, CBS News called the lawsuit 'completely without merit' and said, '60 Minutes fairly presented the interview to inform the viewing audience, and not to mislead it.'[6]
  • In a statement to Fox News last month, the Harris campaign distanced itself from allegations that CBS News edited portions of her answer to questions about the war in Gaza, stating, 'We do not control CBS's production decisions.'[7]

Sources: [1]The Hill, [2]FOX News (a), [3]New York Post, [4]Nationalreview, [5]CNN, [6]CBS and [7]FOX News (b).

Narratives

  • Republican narrative, as provided by Daily Mail and Youtube. CBS News clearly engaged in news distortion by broadcasting an edited, deceitful, and manipulative interview of Kamala Harris. This brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 presidential election was made to tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party by making its preferred candidate appear coherent and decisive. With all the fake news coming out of the network, CBS News should lose its license.
  • Democratic narrative, as provided by CBS and Washington Post. This ill-grounded, frivolous, and dangerous lawsuit violates First Amendment principles. It has been carefully filed in federal court, with only one Trump-appointed judge, because the GOP knows the judge will be inclined to rule in his favor. Instead of dragging CBS News to court, Trump should appear on 60 Minutes to confirm that the network follows the same editing principles for all interviews.

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