Trump doubles CBS’s case in the case damage to $ 20 billion for an interview of 60 minutes of Harris – NTD

President Donald Trump has expanded his case against CBS, doubled the damage they wanted up to $ 20 billion and added CBS Paramount Global as a defendant.

The amended appeal filed on February 7 in the US District Court for the North Texas District claims that news distortion, election intervention and financial damage caused by CBS processing in the “60 minutes” interview with the Vice President of the Democratic Applicant President Kamala Harris.

“Despite the dispute that the defendants wanted Harris to win the election, and the really political profit for Harris was certainly the intention of the defendants behind their spoiling with the interview,” the amended complaint said. “But the defendants’ main motivation was commercial and monetary profit.”

Trump’s legal team claims that Harris’s deceptively editing the answers to look more article and made up, while distracting from Trump’s media platform, Truth Social, reducing revenue from advertising. The complaint alleges that CBS deliberately broadcasts different parts of Harris’ remarks about Face the Nation and 60 minutes, misleading the public for its full statements.

“After the defendants finally released the unadacked version of the interview, it became clear that they had joined the concealment of a gross distortion of distortion and manipulated not only Harris’s response to Prime Minister Netanyahu, but also the interview in its entirety,” the interview says The amended complaint.

CBS has rejected allegations and maintains that its edits are a standard journalistic practice.

“We publish the same transcripts and videos from our interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, which we provided to FCC [Federal Communications Commission]”, Said the network in a statement on February 5.” They show – corresponding to 60 minutes of multiple assurances to the public – that the 60 minutes of the broadcast has not been proven or deceptive. “

In addition, CBS said that a longer part of Harris’s response was broadcast on the face of the nation, while a shorter aired 60 minutes in the name of brevity.

“As the full copy is shown, we edited the interview to ensure that in our original broadcast, many of the Vice President’s answers are included in our original broadcast while they are justly represented,” the network said. “The 60 minutes of a heavy hitting of the Vice President talk about themselves.”

The unknown copy reveals that some of Harris’s answers were cut approximately half and clarifies her full answer to a question about the Israeli war, which Trump’s campaign claims to be inconveniently expressed and unjustly edited to improve the image her. The transcript also shows that Harris’s complete response is a combination of the two broadcast videos.

“Well, Bill, the work we have done has led to a number of movements in this region of Israel, which have been very encouraged by or the result of many things, including our intercession for what needs to happen in the region. And we won’t stop doing that. We will not stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be aware of where to stand the need for this war to end, “Harris said, according to the transcript.

Responding to the release of the transcript, Trump wrote in a social media publication that it shows that CBS has removed the “horrible election elections changing the answers” and replaced them with better and that it is election deception and “election fraud and” At a level that has never been seen before. “He also called on CBS to lose his broadcast license.

Trump’s initial lawsuit, filed on October 31, 2024, demanded damage of $ 10 billion from CBS for presumed news and election intervention. The amended complaint is looking for an additional $ 10 billion under the Lanham Act, which covers false advertising and unfair competition, citing Trump’s business interests, including Truth Social.

“As a direct and close result of the defendants ‘violations, the considerable vision was incorrectly diverted to the defendants’ media platforms, which led to a more consumer commitment, advertising and profit revenue from TMTG and other media farms of President Trump,” said in the amended appeal.

The new submission also calls a representative of Ronnie Jackson (R-Texas) as a plaintiff, arguing that he was hurt as a consumer of misleading broadcast news.

Trump’s court process coincides with the Federal Communication Committee’s decision (FCC) to reopen a complaint to distort news against CBS, originally rejected in January, but revived by the new FCC chairman Brandon Carr.

“CBS played the same question on two different programs and the words of the answers were clearly very different,” Carr said in an interview with Fox News. “Was it edited for clarity and length – which would be good – or are there any other reasons?”

Democrats FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez called this move from renewal efforts to intimidate the media.

The Epoch Times addressed CBS and Paramount with requests for a comment on the amended complaint.

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