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In the amended lawsuit against CBS News, Republican U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson was included as an additional plaintiff
US President Donald Trump has expanded his lawsuit against Democratic leader Kamala Harris and is now asking for $20 billion. (Source: Reuters)
US President Donald Trump expanded his lawsuit against CBS News after the media company released the raw footage and unedited transcript of the interview of then-Vice President Kamala Harris who had appeared in their show “60 Minutes”.
Trump’s legal team in a new court filing late Friday demanded twice the original amount. In the new complaint, they have added Paramount Global – the parent company of CBS – as a defendant and included Trump’s former doctor and Republican U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson as an additional plaintiff since he lives in Texas where they have filed the case.
“Representative Jackson is a consumer of broadcast and digital news media content in this State, District, and Division, including the broadcast and digital news media content from Defendants at issue in this action, and he has thus been injured by Defendants’ conduct alleged herein,” stated the amended complaint.
The lawsuit was amended by the attorney of Trump to include different excerpts from the unedited transcript of CBS News to bolster the case and prove that the media company had heavily edited the interview for helping the Democratic nominee.
“Once Defendants finally released the unedited version of the Interview, it became apparent that they had engaged in gross broadcast distortion cover-up and manipulated not only Harris’s Reply about Prime Minister Netanyahu, but the Interview in its entirety,” stated the filing.
Harris’ ‘Word Salad’ Interview
In one part of the unedited interview, Harris was asked by “60 Minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker about the “quadrupled” border crossings which saw an increase in the first three years of the Biden administration.
Trump’s attorneys have argued that Harris gave another “word salad answer” to the question.
“There are a variety of factors that relate to what we have seen globally, and what we are not immune from at our own border in terms of what we have seen in terms of the surge of immigration and irregular migration,” Harris replied.
“And there are solutions at hand, but we’ve got to have leaders who are solution-oriented, which we’ve been and are, and I am going forward, instead of leaders who want to make it a problem they can run on,” she added.
A FOIA request was also filed by Trump’s attorneys to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to obtain all records related to the lawsuit.
After the raw footage of the interview was released it was found that CBS News had only aired the first half of the response of Harris to the question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not “listening” to the Biden administration.
“But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” said Whitaker in the interview. “The Wall Street Journal said that he— that your administration has repeatedly been blindsided by Netanyahu, and in fact, he has rebuffed just about all of your administration’s entreaties,” he said.
“Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. And we’re not going to stop doing that. 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,” responded Harris.
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