President Trump has amended a lawsuit against CBS, calling for $ 20 billion and again on the pretext that the network has released an “60 -minute” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in an attempt to support its electoral opportunities.
In the new court file late on Friday, Trump requested twice the amount in the damage, originally required. The updated complaint included the parent company of CBS, Paramount Global, as a defendant, and the American Republican Republican Rooney Jackson, the former Trump doctor, added an additional prosecutor because he lives in Texas, where the case was submitted.
The amended Trump file seeks to direct the case away from the causes of the first amendment. Instead, Trump emphasizes that the issue should not depend on freedom of expression arguments because CBS claims to have commercial motives to make Harris look stronger.
CBS refused to comment on Saturday. The network has repeatedly denied that it was deceived by the Harris interview.
The amended complaint came two days after the Federal Communications Committee took the extraordinary step of issuing raw texts and unjustified videos of “60 minutes” corresponding sessions with Harris. The head of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC), Brendan Car, who was appointed by Trump, opened a separate investigation into the alleged news of CBS, after a complaint filed by the non -profit center for conservative American rights last fall.
the An indifferent interview CBS account footage confirmed that Harris has been accurately transferred.
CBS News Harris and Trump called for “60 minutes”, but after agreeing to an interview, Trump retreated. The network submitted a Harris interview, conducted by CBS News Bill Whitaker, in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign.
The controversy appeared on the surfaces after Trump supporters made various answers presented by Harris in response to a question about Israel.
In a clip of the broadcast on “Face The Nation”, Harris gave a word response.
When the interview conducted “60 minutes”, her answer was more powerful and brief.
“The same question. The same answer. But a different part of the response,” said CBS in last fall. “When we edit any interview, whether it is politician, sports, or a cinematic star, we strive to be clear, accurate and at a point.”
CBS defended the amendments again this week amid the recently opened investigation.
The network said on Wednesday: “In these amendments,” 60 minutes “always guided the truth and what we think will be more useful for the audience, all while working within the bond TV restrictions.
However, in the updated lawsuit, Trump Harris was accused of being a weak candidate, subject to the “pronunciation” of the words of words, on the signs of an exceptionally incoherent speech.
Trump’s lawsuit said that CBS “dealt with an interview with a calculated manner in a calculated way to make Harris appear coherent and decisive, so the product is more commercially more attractive to the defendants.”
CBS lawyers asked the judge in December to reject the Trump case or transfer it to New York. CBS is located in New York, the show has been edited in New York. Trump was a resident of Florida when the case was filed.
But Trump filed the lawsuit in Amarello, Texas, where a judge of Trump’s eye hears it. By adding Jackson, who lives in Texas, as a prosecutor, the Trump team argued that a member of Congress had been harmed by an “60 -minute” interview and that the case should remain in Texas.
The controversy sheated the Paramount President Share Redston, the Paramount Company, and her family holding company to David Elison and Skydance Media. The two sides were pushing for this $ 8 billion merger by April.
Redston and her family were about $ 1.75 billion.
Redston urged her team to settle the lawsuit with Trump, according to knowledgeable persons who were not permitted to publicly comment. The Mongols want to complete the merger. Separately, she previously expressed “60 minutes” of a recent story about Gaza.
Inside the company, the settlement talks were exciting to the dispute.
Journalists have retreated, and they called on Paramount leaders to stand tall and defend the freedoms of CBS News. Persons informed said Paramount officials and the Trump team had initial settlement talks.
the The New York Post mentioned The Trump negotiating team, which includes President Donald Trump Junior, is looking to extract up to $ 100 million in a settlement with Paramount. This is more than six times more than the Walt Disney Company, which agreed to pay in December to settle a defamation case for the data of ABC George Stephanoupolos. The anchor said inaccurately said that Trump had been found in a civil case for the rape writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump was found responsible for sexual assault.
Paramount-Skydance needs Carr’s approval into the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) because selling the company includes the transfer of CBS broadcast licenses to the Ellison family.