Trump sues CBS News for $10bn over Harris interview

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- ALEX WOODWARD

Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10bn (£7.75bn), alleging that the network deceptively edited an interview with his rival Kamala Harris to unlawfully influence the 2024 presidential election.

The lawsuit, filed in Texas, accuses CBS of “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion calculated to … confuse, deceive, and mislead the public” and “attempt to tip the scales” in favor of the Democratic nominee.

His legal team filed the lawsuit in a federal court in Amarillo, where the case is expected to land in front of a judge he appointed. Any appeal of a decision in the case would go to a Louisiana-based appellate court that is dominated by conservative judges that have routinely sided in Republicanbacked legal challenges.

A case from Mr Trump – who lives in Florida, and who is suing a New York-based company incorporated in Delaware – is likely to be handed to conservative district Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who Mr Trump nominated to the bench. Judge Kacsmaryk notably reinstated Mr Trump’s so-called “remain in Mexico” program and ruled to strip government approval of a widely used abortion drug. Both decisions were struck down by the Supreme Court.