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Paramount Global & CBS Seek Dismissal Of Donald Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit: “An Affront To The First Amendment”
Paramount Global And CBS‘ legal team issued a broadside against Donald Trump‘s $20 billion lawsuit over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris, as the network has characterized the litigation as an “affront to the First Amendment.” Last month, Trump’s legal team filed an amended complaint, claiming that CBS deceptively edited […]
Paramount Global And CBS ‘ legal team issued a broadside against Donald Trump ‘s $20 billion lawsuit over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris, as the network has characterized the litigation as an “affront to the First Amendment.” In a motion to dismiss filed today, CBS’ legal team contended that the lawsuit “is without basis in law or fact.” The network said that the litigation was the president’s effort to seek to “punish a news organization for constitutionally protected editorial judgments they do not like. Moreover, his legal team wrote, Truth Social’s share price “allegedly ‘skyrocketed nearly 75%’ in the same month” that the Face the Nation and 60 Minutes broadcasts aired, while Trump’s victory in the election “has mooted the need for relief for any ostensible injury to his campaign.”
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