Donald Trump sues CBS over ‘misleading’ interview with rival Kamala Harris

Lawsuit against 60 Minutes demands $10bn successful damages and claims footage was edited.

United States statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump has filed a suit against a US television network for what helium calls a “misleading” interrogation with rival Kamala Harris.

The suit against CBS News filed successful a Texas tribunal connected Thursday alleged the web aired 2 antithetic responses from Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris erstwhile responding to a question astir the warfare betwixt Israel and Hamas successful Gaza.

The mentation that aired during the 60 Minutes programme connected October 6 did not see what the suit called a “word salad” effect from Harris astir the Biden administration’s power connected Israel’s behaviour of the war.

The suit filed by the Republican Party statesmanlike nominee fundamentally accused CBS of editing Harris’s effect to marque it look clearer.

The suit has been filed successful national tribunal successful the Texas metropolis of Amarillo, which has lone 1 justice – Matthew Kacsmaryk. US media reports said the Trump-appointed judge’s tribunal had go an progressively fashionable prime for lawsuits filed by Republicans.

CBS says the allegations are wrong

CBS News has rejected the claims.

“Former President Trump’s repeated claims against 60 Minutes are false,” a CBS News spokesperson said. “The suit Trump has brought contiguous against CBS is wholly without merit, and we volition vigorously support against it.”

The suit demanded a assemblage proceedings and astir $10bn successful damages, the filing showed. It alleged violations of a Texas instrumentality barring deceptive acts successful the behaviour of business.

Trump has repeatedly assailed the web connected the run way implicit the occurrence and has threatened to revoke CBS’s broadcasting licence if elected. CBS has said Trump backed retired of his ain planned interrogation with 60 Minutes.

The suit is conscionable different illustration of Trump’s fraught narration with the media. He has called it “fake news” and the “enemy of the people” and has often called for tv stations to person their licences revoked.

However, Trump is besides inactive consenting to speech to media outlets specified arsenic Fox News that helium considers friendly, and continues to springiness regular and often relaxed off-the-cuff quality conferences during the campaign.

The organisation Reporters Without Borders, known by its French acronym RSF, which monitors property state worldwide, is disquieted that Trump poses “an existential threat” to the media’s quality to bash its occupation successful the US.

It analysed Trump’s run comments from September 1 to October 24, 2024. It recovered helium had “insulted, attacked, oregon threatened the media astatine slightest 108 times successful nationalist speeches oregon remarks”.

RSF’s enforcement director, Clayton Weimers, warned that convulsive words could pb to carnal unit against reporters.

Trump and Harris look each different successful what polls amusement to beryllium a choky contention successful adjacent Tuesday’s statesmanlike election, with some campaigning connected Thursday successful the 3 Western states of New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona.

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