[Craig]

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS SUING CBS NEWS FOR A WHOPPING 10 BILLION DOLLARS. THE SUIT CLAIMS CBS DOCTORED AN INTERVIEW WITH VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS ON ‘60 MINUTES.’

THE CONTROVERSY CENTERS ON AN EDITED CLIP OF HARRIS’S INTERVIEW, WITH CLAIMS FROM TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM THAT IT PAINTS A MISLEADING PICTURE. ACCORDING TO THE LAWSUIT, THE PROMOTIONAL CLIP FOR THE INTERVIEW SHOWED AN EDITED ANSWER FROM HARRIS, DIFFERING FROM WHAT AIRED IN THE FULL EPISODE. TRUMP ALLEGES THIS WAS AN INTENTIONAL MOVE BY CBS TO FAVOR THE VICE PRESIDENT IN THE LEAD-UP TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM ACCUSES CBS OF WHAT THEY’RE CALLING ‘DECEPTIVE BROADCASTING CONDUCT’ WITH THE INTENT OF INTERFERING WITH THE ELECTION, FOX NEWS REPORTED. THEY CLAIM THIS ‘NEWS DISTORTION’ MISLED THE PUBLIC AND EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO SUGGEST IT AIMED TO ‘PAPER OVER’ WHAT THEY DESCRIBE AS HARRIS’S STRUGGLE TO DELIVER A CLEAR RESPONSE.

THE LAWSUIT STATES, ‘CBS’S PARTISAN AND UNLAWFUL ACTS OF ELECTION AND VOTER INTERFERENCE THROUGH MALICIOUS, DECEPTIVE, AND SUBSTANTIAL NEWS DISTORTION WERE CALCULATED TO CONFUSE, DECEIVE, AND MISLEAD THE PUBLIC.’

ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE, TRUMP’S TEAM SAYS HE WANTS A JURY TRIAL, AND THEY’VE ALSO CALLED ON THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION TO PULL CBS’S BROADCAST LICENSE.

AND WHILE THE CBS IS AT THE CENTER OF THIS LEGAL DRAMA, FOX NEWS ALSO FACED CONTROVERSY LAST MONTH, AMID ALLEGATIONS OF USING SIMILAR EDITING TACTICS TO CONDENSE TRUMP’S ANSWERS DURING A BARBERSHOP INTERVIEW ON FOX AND FRIENDS.

CBS NEWS HAS NOT RESPONDED YET TO THE SUIT… THEY ALSO REFUSED TO RELEASE THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE HARRIS INTERVIEW, CITING FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS.

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FOR STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS… I’M CRAIG NIGRELLI.