Trump amps up the pressure on CBS with massive discovery demand as ’60 Minutes’ lawsuit moves forward

FIRST ON FOX -- President Donald Trump’s ineligible squad continued to dial up the unit connected CBS and genitor institution Paramount Global connected Thursday with a monolithic find request for 107 antithetic forms of communications. 

Trump is seeking $20 cardinal successful a suit against CBS, alleging predetermination interference implicit its handling of a "60 Minutes" interview. The president has accused CBS of aiding his Democrat rival Vice President Kamala Harris done deceptive editing 1 period earlier they faced disconnected successful the statesmanlike election. The saga began erstwhile Harris was wide mocked for a "word salad" reply she gave to "60 Minutes" analogous Bill Whitaker during a preview of the interrogation connected "Face the Nation," arsenic CBS aired a much coherent reply to the aforesaid question during a primetime special. 

In a missive obtained by Fox News Digital, Trump’s ineligible squad has requested "all documents successful CBS Interactive’s possession, custody, oregon control, wherever located, including documents successful the possession of its representatives, attorneys, oregon different persons straight oregon indirectly retained by CBS Interactive, oregon anyone other acting connected its behalf oregon different taxable to its control" pertaining to the interview. 

FCC CHAIR CALLS CBS NEWS' CONDUCT ‘HARD TO EXPLAIN’ FOLLOWING RELEASE OF KAMALA HARRIS INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT

President Donald Trump’s ineligible squad continued to dial up the unit connected CBS and genitor institution Paramount Global connected Thursday. (Left: (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images), Right:  (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images), Right: Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The request includes each communications betwixt CBS and the FCC, The Biden administration, the Harris run and the DNC from September 22, 0224 done February 11, 2025. Trump’s ineligible squad besides asked for each communications astir the interrogation involving "60 Minutes" enforcement exertion Tanya Simon’s, enforcement shaper Bill Owens, "Face the Nation" anchor Margaret Brennan oregon Whitaker, on with "any documents containing communications astir interviewing oregon perchance interviewing President Trump for the Election Special." 

Trump’s ineligible squad has demanded "any documents containing communications" astir the unedited speech betwixt CBS staffers and the Biden administration, Harris run and the DNC. 

The 27-page database of find demands besides asks for each interior communications "60 Minutes" honchos had with editors, journalists and correspondents during the controversy, on with immoderate communications with the Harris campaign. 

TRUMP'S LAWSUIT AGAINST CBS EXPANDS AFTER RELEASE OF '60 MINUTES' TRANSCRIPT, ADDS PARAMOUNT AS DEFENDANT

Bill Whitaker’s "60 Minutes" interrogation with erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris is astatine the halfway of a high-stakes lawsuit.  (Screenshots/CBS News)

Any communications pertaining to the suit betwixt CBS and Paramount employees person besides been requested, on with immoderate communications astir advertizing oregon commercials during the programs that aired the Harris interview.

Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, is besides named and Trump’s ineligible squad wants to spot her interactions with "60 Minutes" employees, too. 

Critics accused CBS News of editing Harris' "word salad" answer to shield the erstwhile vice president from further backlash. The find petition comes aft Trump secured a ineligible triumph earlier this week erstwhile a justice deemed CBS and Paramount’s question to disregard "moot."

CBS did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. 

CBS STAFFERS UPSET OVER ‘60 MINUTES’ DRAMA, ADMIT KAMALA HARRIS INTERVIEW EDITS WERE AN ‘UNFORCED ERROR’

President Trump and others were not pleased with CBS News’ "60 Minutes" implicit arguable edit of its interrogation with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. (Left: (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Center: Screenshot/60Minutes, Right: (Photo by Andy Manis/Getty Images))

New FCC Chair Brendan Carr ordered CBS News to manus implicit the unedited transcript arsenic portion of its probe into whether the web violated the FCC's "news distortion" argumentation aft a ailment was filed. CBS had refused to merchandise the unedited transcript until the FCC got involved. 

Last week, Trump’s ineligible squad led by attorneys Ed Paltzik and Dan Epstein amended the archetypal suit aft the merchandise of the unedited transcript and earthy footage of its arguable "60 Minutes" interview. The suit added CBS News' genitor company, Paramount Global, arsenic a defendant, citing however the "60 Minutes" predetermination peculiar was platformed connected its Paramount+ streaming service. The suit added Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, arsenic a plaintiff and accrued the damages assertion to $20 billion.

CBS genitor institution Paramount Global is reportedly considering settling the suit up of a planned merger with Skydance Media successful hopes of preventing imaginable retribution by Trump's FCC, which has the authorization to halt the multibillion-dollar transaction. Redstone is reportedly successful favour of settling with the president. 

The lawsuit against CBS and Paramount Global is 1 of the galore ineligible fronts, transgression and civil, being coordinated by Trump’s Senior Counsel Boris Epshteyn.

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Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.