President lect Trump Sues New York Times, CBS and Other Major Media Outlets for $10B For “False and Defamatory Statements”

]=President-elect Trump sues New York Times, CBS and other major media outlets for $10B – The Guardian

Trump’s team is alleging “false and defamatory statements” and called the New York Times a “full-throated mouthpiece of the Democratic party” waging “industrial-scale libel”

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Trump sues CBS News for $10 billion alleging ‘deceptive doctoring’ of Harris’ ’60 Minutes’ interview

CBS practices ‘news distortion’ intended to ‘confuse, deceive and mislead the public,’ the lawsuit says

By Brooke Singman Fox News, October 31, 2024:

CBS airs different parts of Harris answer to same ’60 Minutes’ question

CBS aired one part of a Kamala Harris answer to a question about Israel from its ’60 Minutes’ correspondent on Oct. 6, and then aired a shorter, different part of the answer a day later.

EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump is suing CBS News for $10 billion in damages, stating the network practiced “deceptive conduct” for the purpose of election interference in its interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the lawsuit filed Thursday.

Trump attorneys said the complaint comes due to “CBS’ partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion calculated to confuse, deceive, and mislead the public.”
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Trump attorneys also argued the edits were done in an effort to “attempt to tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party as the heated 2024 Presidential Election — which President Trump is leading — approaches its conclusion.”

CBS News has been plagued with controversies in recent days involving a tense interview about Israel on ‘CBS Mornings’ and an edited exchange of its ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton; Screenshots/CBS News)

“President Trump brings this action to redress the immense harm caused to him, to his campaign, and to tens of millions of citizens in Texas and across America by CBS’s deceptive broadcasting conduct,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit comes after Trump’s attorneys wrote letters to CBS News demanding the network release the full transcript of the “60 Minutes” interview with Harris after it aired two different answers to the same question. Trump attorneys asked CBS to preserve all documents and communications related to the interview pending a potential legal battle.

CBS News refused to release the full transcript, citing the First Amendment, and rejected the assertion that it had “doctored” the Harris interview to mislead the American people. The network insisted that “the interview was not doctored” and that the program “did not hide any part of the vice president’s answer to the question at issue.”
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Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, Oct. 27, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The lawsuit filed Thursday specifically references the exchange Harris had with “60 Minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker. In a preview clip that aired on “Face the Nation,” Harris was asked why it seemed like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t listening to the U.S.

“Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region,” Harris responded in the “Face the Nation” clip.

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