In the final days of the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump sued CBS over the way it 60 minutes edited a interview with Kamala Harris.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas, seeks $10 billion in damages and is just the latest litigation Trump has filed against a media entity that broadcasts or publishes content that does not concern him. like.

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He lawsuit claims the network violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which generally targets deceptive advertising.

Trump has been obsessed 60 minutes and has threatened to sue CBS since it aired an interview with Harris as part of its election special on October 7. Trump initially agreed to sit down for an interview for the special, but then stepped backdepending on the network.

During the interview with Harris, correspondent Bill Whitaker asked Harris about the situation in Gaza and about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “not listening” to the administration.

In a promotion for the 60 minutes special that aired on Face the nationHarris responded: “Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a series of moves in that region by Israel that were largely driven by or as a result of many things, including our defense of what “must happen in the region.”

In it 60 minutes In the broadcast, Harris responded: “We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”

Trump claims CBS intentionally tried to present Harris’s most succinct response in the 60 minutes transmitted to help his campaign.

“To paper over the weakness of Kamala’s ‘word salad,’ CBS used its national platform on 60 minutes “crosses the line between exercising judgment in reporting and deceptively manipulating the news,” the lawsuit states.

Trump has called Harris a “very low IQ person” and the lawsuit is the latest attack, late in the campaign, on her syntax. The latest presentation appears designed to highlight some of Trump’s attacks on Harris and the media. Includes some of his Truth Social posts after the 60 minutes interview, including one in which he called Harris a “moron.” The lawsuit obtains the dates of the Face the nation and 60 minutes transmits bad for a day.

Several times before, the former president has filed lawsuits against media outlets, seeking to draw attention to what he sees as media injustice, only to have judges dismiss the complaints. They include Trump lawsuits against the New York Times and CNN.

CBS said in a statement that Trump’s “repeated claims against 60 minutes They are fake. The interview was not manipulated and 60 minutes did not withhold any part of Vice President Harris’ response to the question at hand. 60 minutes He presented the interview fairly to inform the audience and not to mislead them. “The lawsuit Trump filed against CBS is completely baseless and we will vigorously defend it.”

As Trump continued to criticize the network, the show told viewers that Harris’ two different answers were all an answer to the same question.

In a statement, the show said: “Same question. Same answer. But a different part of the answer.” Networks routinely trim interviews to fit the length of a segment. Fox News, for example, cut out part of Trump’s town hall with Harris Faulkner, removing parts that showed audience participants openly defending the former president’s election, CNN reported.

in a letter sent to Trump’s legal team Earlier this month, CBS News senior vice president Gayle C. Sproul wrote that “60 minutes “did not conceal any part of the Vice President’s response to the question in question.”

Sproul wrote in his letter to Trump’s lawyers: “It is logical to argue that 60 minutes He withheld the first part of the vice president’s answer to the question. It wasn’t like that. The audience is aware of that part of their response because 60 minutes she herself distributed it publicly by providing it to Face the nation for promotional purposes and publish it on X and others 60 minutes-Brand social media for the same reason.” Sprout also declined to provide Trump’s team with a transcript of the interview.

Trump has continually brought up the 60 minutes interview at campaign rallies and other events, and has called for the network to lose its FCC license, as it has done with other networks over its coverage.

After his latest attack, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel spoke out against it, saying his comments were “threats to free speech” that are “serious and should not be ignored.”

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