Trump has amended a lawsuit filed against CBS News for it’s “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris to include a co-defendent, Doc Ronny Jackson, where it is being chucked into the Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — a Trump-appointed judicial stooge — is the lone federal judge.
CBS has sought to have the case dismissed or moved to a New York court, where CBS is based and the show was edited. Trump filed the case judge shopped in Texas while he was a resident of Florida, but added Doc Ronny because he is a resident of Texas.
“Representative Jackson is a citizen of the United States and the State of Texas and represents Texas’s 13th Congressional District in the House of Representatives,” Trump’s amended complaint says. “As alleged further herein, Representative Jackson is a consumer of broadcast and digital news media content in this State, District, and Division, including the broadcast and digital news media content from Defendants at issue in this action, and he has thus been injured by Defendants’ conduct alleged herein.”
The amended complaint, filed on Friday, demands that CBS and Paramount Global — the network’s parent company — cough up $20 billion for the Harris interview, double the amount demanded in the original complaint.
In the original complaint, Victim Trump claimed “election and voter interference,” but adds “an act of unfair competition” and “unfair advantage” in the amended version.
Trump’s case stems from questions posed to Harris regarding the Israel-Hamas war, and his claims that CBS edited her answers “to profit from manufactured enthusiasm for Harris” by using allegedly “doctored” footage, which they claim was an “unethical and unlawful” attempt to “sabotage a Republican presidential candidate.”
(See more about the interview in last week’s News Views coverage.)
