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marmar

(78,100 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 08:38 PM Oct 31

Cheetolini sues CBS for $10 billion over Harris interview

Destined to be LOLed out of court............ - OP's comment


Former President Donald Trump is suing CBS for $10 billion over an interview with Kamala Harris that aired on "60 Minutes" earlier this month.

The 19-page lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that the network committed “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference” by editing down a handful of Harris’s responses to interview questions. In addition to the massive sum, Trump's team is requesting an order that the network release the unedited interview in full.

Trump has fumed over the "60 Minutes" interview for most of this month, alleging foul play after the network aired two different portions of an answer to a question about the war in Gaza on "Face The Nation" and their flagship newsmagazine program. In the lawsuit, his attorneys claimed that CBS deceptively edited the vice president's "word salad" to harm Trump's election chances.

“CBS’s distortion of the '60 Minutes' interview damaged President Trump’s fundraising and support values by several billions of dollars, particularly in Texas,” Trump’s attorneys argued in the lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Texas. ..................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/31/sues-cbs-for-10-billion-over-harris-60-minutes-interview/?in_brief=true




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Cheetolini sues CBS for $10 billion over Harris interview (Original Post) marmar Oct 31 OP
What a F'n whiney baby dweller Oct 31 #1
Just croak and goafuckingwY malaise Oct 31 #2
Will never get to discovery... Lithos Oct 31 #3
More sanctions for TSF's incompetent lawyers incoming stumpysbear Oct 31 #4
There is no way that goes anywhere. Gore1FL Oct 31 #5
Only if he releases the unedited versions of The Apprentice. nolabear Oct 31 #6
What school did those idiot "attorneys" go to? dickthegrouch Oct 31 #7

dweller

(25,246 posts)
1. What a F'n whiney baby
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 08:44 PM
Oct 31

He really really really really reallyreallyreally needs to go away





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Gore1FL

(21,991 posts)
5. There is no way that goes anywhere.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 09:29 PM
Oct 31

I assume they would countersue over the frivlous lawsuit.

nolabear

(43,280 posts)
6. Only if he releases the unedited versions of The Apprentice.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 09:31 PM
Oct 31

I hear it was quite the shit show.

dickthegrouch

(3,586 posts)
7. What school did those idiot "attorneys" go to?
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:11 PM
Oct 31

I sure don’t want any attorney of mine to have gone there.

The school should sue for bringing their education into disrepute 😁

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