Former President of the United States, Donald Trump, has filed a lawsuit against C.B.S. over a recent 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, alleging defamation and bias.

according to cnnTrump demanded $10 billion for sabotaging his integrity in a 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

However, First Amendment lawyers quickly denounced this law, calling it “frivolous and dangerous.”

In the complaint filed in the United States District Court in the Northern District of Texas, Trump’s legal counsel claimed that the program was “illegal, partisan election acts and voter interference” intended to “deceive the public and attempt to tip the balance” of the presidential elections. in your favor.

Also mentioned in the lawsuit is that Trump asked to “make public the full, unredacted transcript of the (interview).”

According to the court filing, “To disguise the weakness of Kamala’s ‘word salad,’ CBS used its national platform on 60 Minutes to straddle the line between exercising judgment in reporting and deceptively manipulating the news.”

The former US president’s lawyer argued that “CBS’s misconduct was unconscionable because it amounts to a blatant attempt to interfere in the 2024 US presidential election.”

Meanwhile, the CBS spokesperson said: “The interview was not manipulated; and 60 MINUTES did not hide any part of the Vice President’s response to the question in question. 60 MINUTES presented the interview fairly to inform the audience and not mislead them. “The lawsuit Trump filed today against CBS is completely baseless and we will vigorously defend it.”

The lawsuit was also criticized by prominent First Amendment lawyers, saying: “This is a frivolous and dangerous attempt by a politician to control the media. The Supreme Court has made it very clear: the First Amendment lets journalists – and not the courts, the government or candidates for public office – decide how to report the news.”