President Trump has amended his lawsuit against CBS, demanding $20 billion and again claiming the network deceptively edited a “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in an effort to prop up her election chances.
In the new court filing late Friday, Trump demanded twice the amount in damages than he originally requested. The updated complaint included CBS’ parent company, Paramount Global, as a defendant and added Republican U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, Trump’s former doctor, as an additional plaintiff because he lives in Texas, where the case was filed.
The LA Times reports Trump’s amended filing seeks to steer the case away from 1st Amendment grounds. Instead, Trump asserts the case should not hinge on free speech arguments because CBS allegedly had business motivations to make Harris appear stronger.
The amended complaint came two days after the Federal Communications Commission took the unusual step of releasing raw transcripts and the unedited video of the ‘’60 Minutes” interview sessions with Harris. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, appointed by Trump, this week opened a separate inquiry into alleged news distortion at CBS, following a complaint filed last fall by the conservative nonprofit Center for American Rights.
The unedited interview footage confirmed CBS’ account that Harris had been quoted accurately.
CBS News had invited Harris and Trump to sit down with “60 Minutes,” but after agreeing to an interview Trump backed out. The network went forward with the Harris interview, conducted by CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker, in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign.
The controversy over the edits surfaced after Trump supporters zeroed in on different answers Harris gave in response to a question about Israel.
In a clip of the interview broadcast on “Face the Nation,” Harris gave a wordy response.
When the interview ran on “60 Minutes,” her answer was more forceful and succinct.
“Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response,” CBS said last fall. “When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point.”
🚨 #BREAKING: The FCC is now considering REVOKING CBS's broadcast license after deceptively editing Kamala Harris's 60 Minutes interview, per FCC Chair @BrendanCarrFCC
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 7, 2025
They're also investigating NBC for their last-second stunt of putting Kamala on SNL
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CBS defended the edits again this week amid the newly opened FCC inquiry.
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