Donald Trump Amends CBS Lawsuit To Claim That The ’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview Unfairly Diverted Viewers From His Truth Social Platform

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Donald Trump filed an amended lawsuit against CBS late Friday, adding a series of new claims over the network’s edits in a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.

Among other things, Trump is now claiming that CBS engaged in unfair competition, alleging that it deceptively edited the interview in a way that cost traffic and viewership to his own media company, Trump Media and Technology Group, which includes his social media platform Truth Social. “As an owner of a significant interest in a media enterprise in competition with Defendants, President Trump was damaged by Defendants’ false advertising of the Interview and Election Special.

As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ misconduct, significant viewership was improperly diverted to Defendants’ media platforms, resulting in lower consumer engagement, advertising revenues, and profits by TMTG and President Trump’s other media holdings,” Trump’s attorneys wrote in the new complaint, filed in federal court in Amarillo, TX.

His attorneys added, “The damages suffered by President Trump stem in substantial part from consumers’ withholding of trade by reduced engagement with content distributed by Truth Social and President Trump’s other media holdings, and was exacerbated by increased expenses associated with clarifying the true nature of the Interview and its content.” Trump also upped the amount of claimed damages, with him now doubling the size of his claim to $20 billion, which exceeds the cost of all spending in the 2024 election.