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Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10 billion, alleging that the community deceptively edited an interview along with his rival Kamala Harris to unlawfully affect the 2024 presidential election.

The lawsuit, filed in Texas, accuses CBS of “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion calculated to … confuse, deceive, and mislead the public” and “attempt to tip the scales” in favor of the Democratic nominee.

His authorized workforce filed the lawsuit in a federal court docket in Amarillo, the place the case is predicted to land in entrance of a choose he appointed. Any attraction of a choice within the case would go to a Louisiana-based appellate court docket that’s dominated by conservative judges which have routinely sided in Republican-backed authorized challenges.

A case from Trump — who lives in Florida, and who’s suing a New York-based firm included in Delaware — is more likely to be handed to conservative District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who Trump nominated to the bench. Judge Kacsmaryk notably reinstated Trump’s so-called “remain in Mexico” program and dominated to strip authorities approval of a extensively used abortion drug. Both choices have been struck down by the Supreme Court.

Trump has demanded a jury trial and needs to be awarded $10 billion in damages.

The lawsuit spends a number of paragraphs on political assaults, calling President Joe Biden’s resolution to finish his re-election marketing campaign “an unprecedented and anti-democratic political coup” and accusing CBS and different media shops of going “into overdrive to get Kamala elected.” The doc solely references Harris by her first identify.

Trump’s attorneys declare information shops “have tried to falsely recast her as the candidate of ‘joy,’ whitewashed her lengthy record of policy failures, and painted over her repeated, disqualifying gaffes,” together with “word salad” and “jumbles of exceptionally incoherent speech that have drawn disapproval even from dyed-in-the-wool Democratic commentators.

Thursday’s long-shot claims, filed just six days before Election Day, follow Trump’s obsessive attacks baselessly alleging that the network did something “illegal” and doctored her responses.

He additionally has repeatedly threatened to revoke CBS’s broadcast license, together with different tv networks which have aired crucial protection of his administration and marketing campaign.

Trump has beforehand launched unsuccessful lawsuits towards CNN and The New York Times. A choose this 12 months decided that the previous president owes the newspaper and three reporters practically $400,000 for his or her authorized charges after his failed lawsuit towards them.

The Republican presidential nominee additionally backed out of an opportunity to look on 60 Minutes himself. Anchor Scott Pelley informed viewers through the Harris broadcast that Trump’s marketing campaign “complained that we would fact-check the interview.”

“We fact-check every story,” Pelley stated.

The community has since refuted Trump’s “false” accusations, and an lawyer for the community stated there may be “no legal basis” for a authorized problem after a authorized menace from Trump’s workforce to show over unedited transcripts.

At difficulty is how 60 Minutes aired Harris’s solutions to a query from host Bill Whitaker about whether or not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is listening to the US.

A preview of the interview that aired on CBS’s Face the Nation reveals her responding by defending America’s affect, whereas the 60 Minutes broadcast contains a solution that “we are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”

CBS has stated that the community aired the whole thing of her reply; a primary half aired on the Sunday program and the second half aired on Monday’s broadcast as two elements of the identical reply to the identical query.

“Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response,” the community stated in a press release earlier this month.

“When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point,” the assertion stated. “The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.”