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Sanders calls on CBS to 'stand tall' amid Trump lawsuit

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on CBS News not to settle for “standing tall” amid a lawsuit from President Trump over the network's editing of an interview with former Vice President Harris. Ta.

“CBS may have reached a legal settlement with Trump because they didn't like how their campaign interview with Kamala was edited. Really? In the case of CBS Cave, protected by the First Amendment “The belief that there is an independent media that is open to the public is being undermined,” Sanders said. said In X's Friday post

“CBS: Tall. Supports the Constitution,” he added.

In late October of last year, Trump and his legal team sued CBS News over a “60 Minutes” interview the program had conducted with Harris earlier that month, putting the former Democratic presidential candidate in a more positive light. He claimed to have edited it for presentation purposes.

The president's team is seeking $10 billion in damages in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, alleging that “60 Minutes'' has committed “flagrant and illegal election practices and false acts of voter interference.'' and claims that voter interference is falsely deceptive and substantive.''

A network spokesperson said the then-Republican candidate's claims to “60 Minutes” were “false.”

“The interviewer was not a doctor, and 60 Minutes did not hide any part of the vice president's answers to the questions in question,” a spokesperson told The Hill at the time. “60 Minutes has presented the interview fairly to inform viewers and not to mislead viewers.”

The president and his supporters alluded to the response Harris gave about the war in Gaza. Broadcast networks regularly compile both answers and questions from anchors.

ABC News and its anchor George Stephanopoulos settle defamation lawsuit against Trump in mid-December 2024, issue public apology and agree to fund Trump's future presidential library . The lawsuit was filed earlier that year after Stephanopoulos in March, after which Trump reiterated that he had been found “responsible for rape” in E. Jean Carroll's case. A New York jury found the president liable for sexual abuse under state law, but not rape.

Executives at Paramount, the owner of CBS, reportedly held internal discussions about resolving the lawsuit with Trump and The Wall Street Journal. has been reported A week ago, I cited a source familiar with the matter.

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