Paramount filed a motion against Trump's lawsuit over Harris' CBS interview
On March 6, the American company Paramount, which owns the CBS television channel, filed two petitions with the court of the northern District of Texas against the lawsuit of US President Donald Trump, which he initiated because of an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 60 Minutes program. This is evidenced by the database of court cases of the Court Listener project.
One of the petitions notes that the American leader's lawsuit violates the first Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech and the press in the country.
"Donald Trump, his fellow plaintiff [member of the U.S. House of Representatives] Ronnie Jackson, and officials in the highest positions in our government seek to punish a news organization for constitutionally protected editorial judgments that they do not like," reads the accompanying memorandum to this statement.
Earlier, at the end of October 2024, it was reported that Trump, as a presidential candidate, filed a lawsuit against the TV channel for $ 10 billion because of this video. The politician claimed that it was edited in a way that presented Harris in a "good light," which misled the public. He demanded to publish the full transcript of an interview with the Democratic candidate on the 60 Minutes program, as she gave two different answers to the question about the war between Israel and the Palestinian radical movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
On February 5, the New York Post reported that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had published the full version of Harris' interview. It is noted that people who read the recording noticed that CBS greatly shortened or edited some of the answers of the former vice president in order to make her speech more coherent. The head of the FCC, Brendan Carr, said that the organization would hold hearings on "fraudulent editing."
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