Donald Trump Amends CBS Lawsuit To Claim That The ’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview Unfairly Diverted Viewers From His Truth Social Platform
Donald Trump A modified CBS lawsuit was filed late on Friday, adding a series of new claims about network amendments in A. 60 minutes An interview with Kamala Harris.
Among other things, Trump now claims that CBS participated in an unfair competition, claiming that she had edited the interview in a way that costs traffic and viewers to his media company, Trump, the media and technology, which includes his social media platform Social truth.
“As the owner of a great interest in a media institution in the competition with the defendants, President Trump was damaged due to the wrong announcement of the defendants for the interview and the special elections. As a direct and direct result of the misconduct of the defendants, the important viewers were incorrectly converted into media platforms for the defendants, including He performed, presented in the Federal Court of Amarello, Texas.
His lawyers added, “The damage that President Trump suffers is engraved in a large part of consumer blocking of trade by decreasing participation with the content distributed by Social truth Other media holdings of President Trump exacerbate, and exacerbate the increase in expenditures associated with clarifying the true nature of the interview and its content. ”
Trump also raised the amount of damage to him, as he now doubles his demand for $ 20 billion, which exceeds the cost of all spending in the 2024 elections.
Trump also added another prosecutor to the lawsuit: MP Rooney Jackson (R-TX), the former White House, a step to try to address the CBS argument that his introduction to the case in Texas was an attempt to shop in the forum.
Trump sued CBS in October, after broadcasting 60 minutes Special elections are an interview with Harris. At one point from the interview, the correspondent Bill Whitaker Harris asked why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not listen to the Biden administration.
Harris said, “Well, Bill, that the work we have done has led to a number of movements in that region by Israel, which has greatly pushed it, or as a result of many things, including our call to what should happen in a region. We will not stop. About this.
in Facing the nation A promotional offer for the interview, Harris was offered to give the first sentence in her answer. on 60 minutesIt was presented to the response to the last sentence. Trump has passed on the differences, claiming that it was an effort by the network to make Harris look better and raise electoral standards in her favor.
The network released an informed version this week and said it showed that the interview “was not stored or deceptive”, but was edited by time restrictions. In fact, Fox News has released her interview with Trump last June.
CBS Go to the class The case, which says it is an attempt to punish them for their written rulings, which is forbidden from the first amendment. He also argued that Trump’s lawsuit was just a “generalized complaint”.
Trump targeted the media with many lawsuits, most of which were rejected. Many legal experts believe that a lawsuit against CBS is trivial, but it fell just like CBS Paramount Global seeks to obtain organizational approval to gain it by Skydance. The sources say that Paramount Global and Trump have participated in the settlement talks.
The Federal Communications Committee (FCC), which must light the green treatment, has opened an investigation 60 minutes Editing, although the current president, Brendan Car, has It was previously warned against government officials Targeting the decisions of the newsroom.
In his original complaint, Trump referred to the deceptive Texas practices law, which generally includes the wrong advertising claims. The amending lawsuit now also claims the wrong declaration and the unfair competition under the Lanham Law, citing its clause regarding the distortion in the commercial declaration and promotion. He claims that Facing the nation Promo represents an advertisement, “the misleading of the American public and the leadership of the leadership with the interview and the special elections due to questions about the validity of this programming.”
In a previous response to Trump’s suit, CBS claimed that “editorial rulings are a non -commercial discourse that fully outside the scope of” Texas Law.
The network also responded to Trump’s claim that 60 minutes The interview hurt his electoral prospects. CBS lawyers wrote that “this claim was put forward by the elections, which the prosecutor won.”
