Trump expands his $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News after bombshell transcript release

President Trump has expanded his $10 cardinal suit against CBS News pursuing the release of the unedited version of the network's '60 Minutes' interrogation with Kamala Harris. 

The president's ineligible squad filed an update to his suit connected Friday, adding CBS's genitor institution Paramount Global arsenic a suspect due to the fact that the heavy edited interrogation was shown connected its Paramount+ streaming platform. 

Congressman Ronny Jackson, a adjacent Trump ally, was besides added arsenic a plaintiff, due to the fact that helium 'is a user of broadcast and integer quality media content', and 'has frankincense been injured by Defendants’ behaviour alleged herein', the updated suit said. 

The caller filing, archetypal reported by Fox News, includes aggregate excerpts from Harris' unedited interview, arguing they beryllium CBS News chopped retired unflattering remarks to assistance the Democratic nominee successful the election. 

'Once Defendants yet released the unedited mentation of the Interview, it became evident that they had engaged successful gross broadcast distortion cover-up,' the suit alleges. 

Trump's attorneys cited 1 speech wherever Harris gave a lengthy, rambling reply astir Benjamin Netanyahu, portion CBS lone aired astir 7 seconds of her remarks. 

'(CBS News) manipulated not lone Harris’s Reply astir Prime Minister Netanyahu, but the Interview successful its entirety,' the suit reads. 

The president's ineligible squad person besides filed a Freedom of Information petition to the FCC, to get each records of its handling of his CBS lawsuit, including from Biden-era FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel. 

The unedited mentation of the 60 Minutes interrogation was ordered by Rosenworcel's replacement successful the Trump administration, Brendan Carr, arsenic portion of a ailment implicit 'news distortion' that the FCC is present investigating. 

The unedited footage recovered that CBS News aired conscionable 20 minutes of their hour-long interview.  

In the Netanyahu exchange, cited by Trump's attorneys successful his caller filing, Harris was asked by '60 Minutes' analogous Bill Whitaker wherefore 'seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.' 

Trump's filing said Harris responded with 'word salad', which they assertion was deceptively edited by CBS.

She responded: 'Well, Bill, the enactment that we person done has resulted successful a fig of movements successful that portion by Israel that were precise overmuch prompted by, oregon a effect of galore things, including our advocacy for what needs to hap successful the region. 

'And we're not going to halt doing that. We are not going to halt pursuing what is indispensable for the United States to beryllium wide astir wherever we basal connected the request for this warfare to end.' 

However, successful the clip that aired successful the primetime predetermination special, Harris gave a overmuch much succinct answer, saying: 'We are not going to halt pursuing what is indispensable for the United States to beryllium wide astir wherever we basal connected the request for this warfare to end.' 

Following the merchandise of the unedited interview, Carr spoke retired to accidental the behaviour of CBS News' editors was 'hard to explain.' 

President Trump issued a acold much hostile response aft the footage was released, saying CBS News should beryllium unopen down and its flagship 60 Minutes amusement beryllium 'terminated.'  

'CBS and 60 Minutes defrauded the nationalist by doing thing which has never, to this extent, been seen before,' Trump claimed successful a station to Truth Social connected Thursday morning.

'They 100% removed Kamala's horrible predetermination changing answers to questions, and replaced them with wholly different, and acold better, answers, taken from different portion of the interview,' helium continued. 'This was Election changing 'stuff,' Election Interference and, rather simply, Election Fraud astatine a level ne'er seen before.'

As CBS News faces the caller president's wrath, staff astatine the embattled web are said to beryllium dreading a projected colony of his lawsuit. 

Staff members are astir universally against settling Trump's $10 cardinal lawsuit, and would beryllium particularly irate if immoderate projected colony comes with a mandated apology from the network, which has antecedently maintained that the clip with Harris was 'not doctored.'

But executives astatine Paramount reportedly judge that settling the suit would summation the likelihood that the Trump medication would o.k. its multibillion-dollar merger with amusement institution Skydance, according to the New York Times. 

Also connected Wednesday, reports emerged revealing that USAID, which was shuttered this week by Trump astatine the proposal of Elon Musk, paid $8 cardinal to Politico for employees' subscriptions.

Trump says this is further impervious of the 'biggest ungraded of them all' betwixt Democrats, authorities bureaucracy and the media.

He questioned whether these entities are paying different media outlets, specifically The New York Times, to prosecute successful enactment that helium claims amounts to 'election interference' and 'fraud.'

In al each caps station to Truth Social, Trump wrote: 'LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLLEN (sic) AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A 'PAYOFF' FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS.'

'Did the New York Times person money??? Who other did???' the president questioned, and warned 'Democrats can't fell from this one.'