Trumps lawsuit against CBS expands after release of 60 Minutes transcript, adds Paramount as defendant
President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News was expanded following the release of the unedited transcript and raw footage of its “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris.According to a late-Friday filing from Trump’s legal team reviewed by Fox News Digital, the lawsuit is adding CBS News’ parent company Paramount Global as a defendant, citing how the “60 Minutes” election special was platformed on its Paramount+ streaming service.Additionally, the lawsuit is adding Rep.Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, as a plaintiff. “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’ conduct alleged herein,” the amended complaint states. Trump’s attorneys amended its lawsuit to include multiple excerpts from the unedited transcript in hopes of bolstering their case that CBS News withheld unflattering exchanges in order to help the Democratic nominee. “Once Defendants finally released the unedited version of the Interview, it became apparent that they had engaged in gross broadcast distortion cover-up and manipulated not only Harris’s Reply about Prime Minister Netanyahu, but the Interview in its entirety,” the filing states.For example, in one of the exchanges highlighted from the unedited transcript, “60 Minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker pressed Harris on how the number of border crossings had “quadrupled” in the first three years of the Biden administration.Harris provided another “word salad answer,” Trump’s attorneys argued.“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 the surge of immigration and irregular migration,” Harris told Whitaker.
“And there are solutions at hand, but we...