Trump enhances the pressure on CBS with a huge detection request because the ’60 minutes ‘lawsuit’ moves forward
First on the fox – President Donald Trump’s legal team continued to choose pressure on CBS and Paramount Global’s home company On Thursday with a huge requirement for discovering for 107 different forms of communication.
Trump is looking for $ 20 billion in a lawsuit against CBS, citing an election interference with his interview “60 minutes”. The President accused CBS of helping his Vice -President of Democrats’ rival Kamal Harris Varovable Editing a month before they faced the presidential election. The saga started when Harris was widely mocked for the “word salad”, which was given by “60 minutes of” Bill Whitaker’s doper during an interview interview with “Face the Nation”, while CBS broadcast a more coherent answer to the same question during the same question during the same question During the same question during the same question, especially the received.
In the letter obtained Fox News DigitalTrump’s legal team requested “all documents in possession, custody of CBS Interactive, wherever he is, including documents in possession of his representatives, lawyers or other persons directly or indirectly retained by CBS Interactive or anyone who acts on her in her a name or otherwise subject to his control “related to the interview.
President Donald Trump’s legal team on Thursday continued to choose pressure on CBS and Paramount Global’s home company. (Left: (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images), right: (Photo by Tasos Cathopodis/Getty Images), right: Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Demand includes all communications between CBS -AI FCC, Administration Biden, Harris campaign and DNC from September 22, 0224 to February 11, 2025. Trump’s legal team also requested all the interview communications involving the “60 minutes” of executive editor Tanya Simon, Executive Producer Bill Owens, “Face the Nation” Sidra Margaret Brennan or Whitaker, along with “any documents containing communications about interviewing or potentially interviewing President Trump for election special. ”
The Trump legal team requested “any documents containing communication” on an unregistered exchange between CBS employees Biden Administration, Harris campaign and DNC.
The list of 27 pages discovery requirements also seeks all the internal communication “60 minutes” Honschos with editors, reporters and correspondents during controversy, together with any communication with the Harris campaign.
Bill Whitaker’s interview “60 minutes” with former Vice -President Kamal Harris is at the center of a high role lawsuit. (Screen shots/CBS News)
All communications relating to the lawsuit between the Paramount employee, along with any advertising or advertisements during the programs that aired the Harris interview, have also been requested.
Shari Redstone, Paramount’s control shareholder, was also appointed, and Trump’s legal team wants to see his interactions with “60 minutes” employees.
Critics have accused CBS News about editing Harris’s “word salad” answer protect the former vice president from further return. The discovery request comes after Trump secured a legal victory earlier this week when the judge thought CBS and Paramount’s proposal to reject “Moot”.
CBS did not immediately respond to a comment request.
President Trump and others were not satisfied with the CBS News “60 minutes” because of the controversial editing interview with then President Kamal Harris. (Left: (Photo Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Center: Shotshot/60Minutes, Right: (Photo Andy Manis/Getty Images)))
New FCC chair Brendan Carr He ordered CBS News to hand over an unregulated transcript as part of its investigation whether the network had violated the FCC “distortion of news” after the appeal filed. CBS refused to release an unregulated transcript until FCC turned on.
Last week, the Trump’s legal team, headed by lawyer Ed Paltzik and Dan Epstein, changed their original lawsuit after publishing an unprecedented transcript and raw recordings of his controversial interview “60 minutes”. The lawsuit added CBS News home company, Paramount Global, as a defendant, stating that the “60 minutes” of the election choice was platformar at its Paramount+ Streaming service. The lawsuit was added by Ambassador Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, as a prosecutor and increased the compensation claim at $ 20 billion.
CBS parent company Paramount Global is reportedly considering resolving the lawsuit ahead of the planned merger with Skydance Media in the hope that it will prevent the potential retaliation of Trump’s FCC, which has the authority to stop multi-million dollar transactions. Redstone allegedly advocates solving with the president.
The case against the CBSA Paramount Global is one of the many legal fronts, criminal and civilians, coordinated by Trump’s senior advisor Boris Epshteyn.
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Joseph A. Wulfsohn Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
