Paramount says that Trump’s CBS ’60 minutes”s complaint is a “punishment” network

Paramount Global has asked a federal judge to throw President Trump’s $ 20 billion lawsuit for a “60-minute interview” in which Trump’s legal efforts have “punished” CBS for editorial decisions.

In his application to dismiss the lawsuit submitted on Thursday, Paramount argued that Trump and the Republicans’ colleagues in Texas “Rep. Ronny Jackson, “try to punish a news organization for constitutionally protected editorial judgments that they do not like”.

“You not only require compensation in the amount of $ 20 billion, but also apply for an arrangement in which it proves how a news organization can exercise your editorial judgment in the future,” said Paramount in the judicial report. “The 1st change is determined against these claims.”

Experts in first changes have long said that the parent company of CBS had a solid defense in the case of “60 minutes”, since news producers and editors have a large scope to decide which material should be transmitted as long as the broadcast information is not distorted.

Nevertheless, Paramounts has set up controlling shareholders Shari Redstone to pay the lawsuit with Trump to delete a path to the sale of their company to David Ellison’s parachute jump. The 8-billion dollar transaction requires the consent of the federal supervisory authorities.

The efforts to pay the case were made by CBS news journalists, who insisted that they did nothing wrong when processing the “60-minute interview last autumn with the then Vice President Kamala Harris.

Paramount, the mediation required by the judge has agreed separately. Paramount was faced with a Friday period to submit the application for rejection.

Last autumn, CBS Trump invited to an interview with “60 minutes”, but he retired. The network made a program with Harris.

CBS News has recognized that Harris has a partial answer to a question from CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker about the handling of the Israel Hamas War through the bidges administration.

The problem became controversial after CBS had broadcast various parts of Harris’s answer to two news programs.

Trump claimed that the network has dealt with an interview with Harris with 60 minutes to try to tip the choice in her favor. Last month he changed his initial lawsuit of $ 10 billion and increased the alleged damage to $ 20 billion in order to distract the legal argument from the reasons of the 1st change by claiming that “60 minutes” was a fraudulent product that was driven by the people of Texas.

Trump submitted the lawsuit in Amarillo, Texas, where it would be heard by a judge appointed by Trump. Jackson, Trump’s former doctor, who lives in Texas, was added to the lawsuit and claimed that he had harm “60 minutes” through the program.

Paramount asked the judge separately to move the case before the Federal Supreme Court in New York, where CBS is based if he refused to reject the claims.

CBS producers have long insisted that they quoted Harris exactly.

The Federal Communications Commission has separately opened an investigation into demands on the news distortion, which results from the program “60 minutes”. The video of the Unedited Interview, which was published last month by the FCC chairman Brendon Carr and separately by CBS, supported the network’s account.

The publication also showed that Harris gave a messed answer, which was cut to his most concise and most mandatory sentence.

CBS criticized CBS because they no longer broadcast from Harris’ answer. Trump described Harris’ answer as a “word salad” that, according to the president’s changed complaint, was “incoherent” and “undecided”.

News organizations process routine interviews and remove foreign words and redundant phrases. Practice has been accepted for a long time – as long as the changes do not change the context or the meaning.

Paramount defended the changes.

“The answers that were broadcast in every news program were simply excerpts from a single answer that vice president Harris gave a single question, and together the audience heard practically the entire answer from Harris,” Paramount argued in the application.

Experts in first changes said that Trump had difficult to argue the interview with 60 minutes because the question did not point to him. Instead, it was about whether the Biden government was influenced with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump’s changed registration also tried to distract the case from the reasons of the 1st change.

Instead, the changed Trump claims that the case should not weaken from freedom of speech, but should be regarded as a violation of the Trade Act of Texas deception practices, which regulates commercial business practices. Trump claimed that the interview was an “election mixture” and that it was “unfair competition” for its social platform of truth.