Trump is suing CBS for $10 billion over Kamala Harris’ editing scandal

The president is now suing CBS for billions in damages, claiming his actions amounted to “voter interference” and were an “attempt to tip the balance in favor of the Democratic Party” in the election.

Trump’s attorneys filed the lawsuit Thursday in response to what they called “CBS’s partisan and unlawful election actions and voter interference through malicious, deceptive and substantial news distortion designed to confuse, deceive and deceive the public.” mentioned.

“President Trump is taking this action to redress the enormous harm caused to him, his campaign, and tens of millions of citizens in Texas and across America by CBS’ deceptive broadcast conduct,” said the lawsuit, obtained by Fox News Digital.

It comes after Trump’s representatives wrote a letter to CBS News urging the network to release the full transcript of Ms Harris’ interview. They have also asked CBS to preserve all data from the interview ahead of a possible legal battle.

CBS declined to release the transcript, citing its First Amendment rights, adding that the interview was not “rigged” and that the program “did not include any part of the Vice President’s response to the question at hand.” kept hidden.”

Response more targeted

In the preview clip, Ms. Harris’ response was: “The work we’ve done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much motivated by or the result of many things, including our advocacy for what is needed what will happen in the region’

But when the interview aired on Monday’s show, Ms. Harris seemed to give a more pointed response: “We will not stop pursuing what is necessary to make clear to the United States where we stand on the need to end this war. ”

The vice president’s response to Bill Whittaker’s question was mocked by Republicans at the time, with Trump later calling the editing incident “the biggest scandal in broadcasting history.”

“To cover up Kamala’s weakness in word salad, CBS used its national platform on 60 Minutes to cross the line from exercising judgment in reporting to deceptive, deceptive manipulation of news,” the lawsuit said.

Trump’s lawyers accused the network of “distorting the interview” to boost “their favorite candidate.”

According to the lawsuit, CBS was “responsible for accurately portraying the truth of events, and for not distorting an interview to attempt to falsely make their preferred candidate appear coherent and decisive, which Kamala certainly is not.”

“CBS’ actions prevented the public from distinguishing which Kamala they were seeing in the interview: the candidate or an editor’s actual puppet behind the scenes,” the lawsuit continued, adding that the question about the Gaza war “was of the greatest public interest”.

In addition to the $10 billion amount, Trump is demanding a jury trial.

CBS was contacted for comment.