{"id":2400649,"date":"2025-02-08T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-broadens-cbs-lawsuit-after-unedited-harris-60-minutes-interview-release-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:05:57","slug":"trump-broadens-cbs-lawsuit-after-unedited-harris-60-minutes-interview-release-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-broadens-cbs-lawsuit-after-unedited-harris-60-minutes-interview-release-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump broadens CBS lawsuit after unedited Harris 60 Minutes interview release &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-broadens-cbs-lawsuit-after-unedited-harris-60-minutes-interview-release-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2400649&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former \u200dPresident\u200c Donald Trump has expanded his lawsuit against CBS News,alleging that \u2063the networkS editing of a 60 Minutes interview with former \u200cVice President Kamala\u200b Harris constituted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-facebook-and-twitter-ceos-testify-before-senate-judiciary-committee\/\" title=\"Watch Live: Facebook and Twitter CEOs Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee\">election interference<\/a>. This\u2062 lawsuit\u2062 follows CBS&#8217;s \u2062release \u200bof the unedited interview transcript and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-first-legal-demands-justice-department-release-video-recordings-from-trump-raid\/\" title=\"America First Legal Demands Justice Department ... Video Recordings From Trump Raid\">raw video footage<\/a> after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ordered them to \u2063do \u2062so. Trump&#8217;s legal team claims that CBS&#8217;s edits were manipulative and aimed to protect Harris from \u200bunflattering content, which could adversely affect her \u2062political campaign against him. \u2063 <\/p>\n<p>The amended \u2064lawsuit not only increases the damages \u200cclaimed from $10 \u2063billion to $20 billion but also introduces new information, \u2063including what Trump \u200cdescribes as confusing or \u200cnonsensical responses from Harris\u200d that \u200dwere omitted \u2063from the broadcast. Additionally, Trump has added Representative Ronny Jackson as a plaintiff to strengthen the case, arguing \u2063that both he and Jackson suffered\u2063 harm\u200b due to the\u200b alleged deceptive editing. The suit also includes a claim under the federal Lanham Act for unfair competition, asserting that CBS&#8217;s \u200bactions diverted viewership away from Trump&#8217;s Truth Social platform, harming his media interests. the\u200c lawsuit \u2062originally filed in \u200bOctober 2024 focused on CBS&#8217;s editing of Harris&#8217;s comments regarding Israel and Israeli Prime Minister\u200c Netanyahu.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump broadens CBS lawsuit after unedited Harris 60 Minutes interview release<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1965967\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> expanded his lawsuit against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cbs-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">CBS News<\/a> for making controversial edits to an interview with former Vice Kamala Harris after the network released new information regarding the media appearance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Earlier this week, months after Trump said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3212222\/trump-sues-cbs-edited-deceitful-harris-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">CBS News&rsquo;s edits to its <em>60 Minutes<\/em> interview with Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign<\/a> amounted to election interference, the Federal Communications Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3312388\/60-minutes-releases-kamala-harris-transcript-fcc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">ordered the network<\/a> to&nbsp;release the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-house-republicans-demand-full-unedited-transcript-from-biden-ghani-phone-call\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Demand Full, ... From Biden-Ghani Phone Call\">full unedited transcript<\/a> of the interview as well as raw video footage of the entire segment. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3292730\/all-executive-orders-actions-trump-first-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FULL LIST OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After reviewing the new information, Trump&rsquo;s legal team on Saturday amended the president&rsquo;s lawsuit &#8203;&#8203;to double the amount he claims he is owed for &ldquo;deceptive&rdquo; editing from the original $10 billion to $20 billion. Multiple excerpts from the unedited transcript are also included in the revised lawsuit, to bolster the president&rsquo;s argument that CBS unfairly shielded Harris by not releasing potentially unflattering footage that could have damaged her chances of defeating Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Once Defendants finally released the unedited version of the Interview, it became apparent that they had engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">gross broadcast distortion cover-<\/a>up and manipulated not only Harris&rsquo;s Reply about Prime Minister Netanyahu, but the Interview in its entirety,&rdquo; the filing states.<\/p>\n<p>In several newly released portions of the interview, the lawsuit alleges lengthy &ldquo;word salad&rdquo; answers from Harris that made no sense were unfairly left out. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden greet Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff upon their arrival at the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;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 surge of immigration and irregular migration. And there are solutions at hand, but we&rsquo;ve gotta have leaders who are solution-oriented, which we&rsquo;ve been and are and I am, going forward. Instead of leaders who want to make it a problem they can run on,&rdquo; the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vice-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">vice president<\/a> said in one instance mentioned in the lawsuit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are people who have ambition and aspiration,&nbsp; and dreams and optimism and hope. If you look at the character of who we are, how we have achieved the strength that we have achieved, I believe in large part it is because of our character and our belief in the promise of America. And I&rsquo;m running for President because I want to do everything that is possible to create an opportunity for people to achieve those goals those ambitions and those dreams,&rdquo; Harris said in another clip previously withheld from the public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Trump&rsquo;s legal team also amended the lawsuit to include Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) as a plaintiff. The president had originally filed the suit in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Texas<\/a>, leading to CBS&rsquo;s motion to dismiss the case on the basis that Trump does not reside in the Lone Star state.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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&rsquo; conduct alleged herein,&rdquo; the revised complaint reads.<\/p>\n<p>The revised lawsuit also addressed Trump&rsquo;s concerns he was harmed as the owner of his Truth Social platform by CBS&rsquo;s editing.&nbsp; The president&rsquo;s legal team added a new claim citing the federal Lanham Act to argue he was the target of &ldquo;unfair competition.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump was harmed as a competitor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-to-end-news-access-for-canadians-if-online-news-act-becomes-law\/\" title=\"Meta to end news access for Canadians if Online News Act becomes law\">news media industry<\/a> and suffered actual damages in an amount to be determined upon trial of this action,&rdquo; the complaint states. &ldquo;Viewership was improperly diverted to Defendants&rsquo; media platforms, resulting in lower consumer engagement, advertising revenues and profits&rdquo; for Truth Social and Trump&rsquo;s other media ventures,&rdquo; because of the edits, the suit alleges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump initially<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3212222\/trump-sues-cbs-edited-deceitful-harris-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> sued<\/a> CBS in October 2024, citing the network&rsquo;s edit of Harris&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113282874299753124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">answer about Israel<\/a> and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1965967\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1965967\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump expands CBS lawsuit after unedited Harris interview release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2400650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Kamala-Harris-ddid2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[42153,50075,43249,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2400649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-60-minutes","tag-cbs-lawsuit","tag-harris-interview","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Kamala-Harris-ddid2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400653,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400649\/revisions\/2400653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}