Summary
Donald Trump has amended his lawsuit against CBS, doubling the damages sought to $20 billion.
He also added Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson, his former White House doctor, as a co-plaintiff to keep the suit before a Trump-appointed judge in Texas.
He claims CBS deceptively edited Kamala Harris’ “60 Minutes” interview to make her appear more coherent, allegedly influencing the 2024 election and harming his Truth Social platform.
Filed in Texas, the suit alleges violations of the Lanham Act and Texas consumer protection laws.
CBS argues that the Lanham Act and Texas statute only govern commercial speech, not political or editorial speech, and has moved to dismiss the lawsuit.
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Twenty Billion Dollars!!!
I don’t know if they even have that to spend on the deal
See what happens when you capitulate to a bully? He doesn’t stop bullying. He pushes more and bullies harder. The only way to stop a bully is to (metaphorically) punch him in his mouth.
Just wait til Pam Bondi decides to take the case up as a federal matter and use federal funds for the thinnest, orange skinned ass lawsuit
Metaphors don’t work on people like him.
Yes Cheeto, she couldn’t possibly be actually coherent because she graduated from law school huh?
You see, anyone who is of a certain type that got a law degree only got it because of DEI. There! Conservatives now have permission to ignore those credentials entirely, unless they are the right type of people.
So, can she then sue him over the Joe Rogan interview?
The bills might just cancel each other out.
I don’t think so. This is only possible because it was broadcast media and there are laws about fair use of the airwaves. I’m surprised the 60 minutes suit is still happening though, as Trump declined the offer for an interview.
You fucking idiots.
The instant you bought into it, you signed up for this. He’s going to keep fucking with you. The day after you pay, he’s going to be fucking with you again. The FCC’s going to pull your license. He’s going to sue you again for something you allegedly did in 2014. It’ll never stop, until you actually stand up for yourself.
And now you’re out $15 million, for nothing. You got nothing at all for it.
It’s like mob tactics, once you pay for protection they’ll just keep coming back asking for more until you’re bled dry, then they’ll dispose of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtjyqgZAUk
The difference being, the Bamboo Lounge didn’t really have a choice. CBS does, they’re just too craven to take it.
Exactly what I had in mind when I wrote my original comment.
ABC paid $15 million, as far as I know CBS hasn’t paid anything yet.
Oh, you’re right. CBS was the one that provided transcripts to the FCC when they didn’t need to.
I still maintain that they are idiots. Fight back, man. That’s the way.
CBS isn’t going to fight back, because they still want regulatory approval to be bought out by Skydance.
It’s why they started appeasing him in the first place.
$20 billion, though? That definitely changes the calculus.
I saw this amazing video from some conservative talk person breaking down all the Terrible Things in this CBS raw footage. It was so hilariously nothing. Like the entirety of it was look she pauses here so that they can edit in the picture of the interviewer asking the question. That was the whole thing. Like just normal editing techniques. I wasn’t expecting much, but good God something at least.
You know…
It’s weird how mind-blowingly silent moderates are about Kamala.
I haven’t seen a single mocking comment about if she thinks supporting a genocide is still more important than winning the election.
Or being against healthcare reform…
Or being pro-border wall
Or against taxing the wealthy
Or being pro-fracking
Or any of the other ways she pissed off pieces of the Dem party because she wanted donations more than she wanted votes.
She is currently irrelevant. Her only function is to be studied as an example of failure. I really don’t care how she feels and will probably never care what she thinks ever again.
The damage is done, she has nothing left to offer me.
I mean she got completely crushed and her political career is basically over. She was never very popular and she bungled the election in a most moronic fashion. Not much point in kicking her anymore is there?
Her and the DNC bungling the election is the reason why Trump is currently in office. These people are supposed to be the opposition party, remember?
I feel like you just repeated half of my comment and then didn’t address anything I said.
What’s there to address? I’m agreeing with your assessment of her and just disagreeing with the part about “not kicking her when she’s down” since she and the DNC leaders were what stood between us and Trump.
Cuz that’s the whole point. My point was it’s a waste of time to kick at her cuz she’s fucking gone. She’s done she’s irrelevant. Why would I spend my time on that? The election already cooked her . Now the DNC leadership, who you’ve added to the conversation, they’re active so yeah kick on them all you want and all you can. But she ain’t even leadership. She done
Mind blowing. My mind is blown. Why aren’t people blaming Kamala for what Trump is doing? I just don’t get it.
Shame-infused cowardice will do that to a person. And the deeper the shame, the more the cowardice will drive the excuses that steer them away from having to live with the consequences of their actions.
My point is:
No one asks if Kamala regrets all her rightwing moves that allowed trump to beat her.
Maybe because this is one of the few times it’s personally bad for her?
Because no one is asking her anything. No one wants her to run again, no one is rallying behind her
She ran as basically “generic Democrat”. She doesn’t have the ideology of Bernie, she doesn’t have the relevance of Obama or Biden, and by the end of the campaign she toned down the cutting responses that made Trump look weak and stupid - that could have at least made her part of the conversation
She’s not being let off the hook, she’s been cut out of the picture
You know… It’s weird how giddy the ‘progressives’ are over the dismantling of cultural norms and suppression of marginal groups who at the very least would have maintained at least a status-quo quality of life rather than being used as a token to pin every social I’ll on in a similar fashion to 1940s Germany…
If I challenged you to send one email or make one phone call to an entertainer, politician, business leader or anyone else that can get the ear of the press to say to them that they need to use that power to speak out against Israeli genocide every time you felt the need to bring up Kamala Harris, would you do it?
You know….
It’s weird how mind-blowingly obnoxious far lefters are about gEnOciDe.
Especially when we all spent months and months telling them this shit was going to happen. And all we heard in response was “gEnOciDe!” And now- it’s SO much worse than before, that you need to take your complaints and get in line behind:
• Systemic Government Mandated Racism
• The Official Erasure of any acknowledgement that trans people exist.
• A Nazi running our financial department.
• And the EXACT SAME FUCKING GENOCIDE THAT WAS HAPPENING BEFORE, but now- with a sparkling exodus to wash it down with.
Seriously… If you thought no one was paying attention back when you all were saying your ”bUt mUh bOtH siDeS tHiNG!”
if you thought you weren’t being heard then….
Rest assured that a LOT less people are listening to it now. And it’s not that anyone is in denial of it. Or minimizing it. No. It that now, everyone is too busy trying to figure out how to protect their children, their partners, and their parents from the consequent of
“mUh gEnoCiDe!:” Campaign 2024.
People are leaving America in droves to get away from the pain that we were told would be brought to us.
We all fucking tried to stop this from happening. We all told you what would happen. We pleaded to be taken seriously. And you called us genocide supporters and fascists. And now, all you can do is point your finger at someone that has absolutely NOTHING to do with this and whine about shit that doesn’t even matter any more?
Seriously… WTF? You people really will go to no end that exists within time or space to avoid the consequences of what you did.
Palestine is either going to be a glass crater, or all Palestinians will be banished from their homeland.
Tell me… honestly-
Did you see all this happening when you told everyone how “bOtH siDeS aRe tHe sAmE”?
This way of thinking is why democrats will never win again.
It’s always everyone else’s fault never their own.
This you?
That’s what I say to all the braindeads who voted for the worst presidential candidate in history Ms. Holocaust Harris.
Sure looks to me like you’re trying to blame the people that actually voted.
Go sit down.
Yeah learn how to read and what context means.
I mean, you just hypocritically accused me of something you did yourself. What context is there to miss?
I’m mocking the people who believe their own self-serving version of it because they can’t see past their own bluemagabrainrot. You’ll catch up one day buddy! Have a great day
Your comment history is hilarious when read in context with your response.
Self-serving indeed.
The guy won, and yet he still manages to be a sore loser.
How can you even try to say you were damaged after you win the biggest popularity contest in the world
Trump lost. Voter suppression won. He knows it, and can’t deal with being a three time loser
https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
I want so badly to believe the Trump knowing it part of that, but I just think his head is too far up his own ass. I’m willing to bet he probably thinks he won by a record breaking landslide. I hate that mother fucker so goddamn much.
isn’t that more than twice his net worth?
Didn’t he just make stupid billions from his ponzi coin scheme?
Yes and I still think he’s under 10b
allegedly influencing the 2024 election
Where are the damages again?
Not winning with 500% of the votes he claimed he would per his wager with Putin, who won with a modest 230%.
Watch this case get a totally bogus ruling from Trump’s pet judge only to see CBS settle before any appeals court can smack it down. This whole thing that Republicans have created enabling them to pick their judge as long as a suit is filed in the correct zip code is ridiculous.
We really need to get some judges who will reliably rule against fascists. We can’t get new judges, so I wonder how many liberal judges could be persuaded that cock blocking Republicans is a higher calling right now than impartiality is.
So you want to be just like them, but with the colors you like?
What the fuck else are we supposed to do? Just sit down, write a strongly worded letter, and let Fascism take over the planet? Democrats have been doing that since forever. It’s not working. The days of playing by the rules ended in 2016. All bets are off. It’s time for them to stop being pussyass bitches, and start fighting fire with fire.
Take the high road, and shove it up your ass.
Ah yeah. You’re just as aggressive as them as well, I forgot that part. Lmao
Dude I’m watching my country fall apart, and nobody’s doing a god damn thing about it. Of course I’m going to be “aggressive” about it. The question is why is no one else? It’s like you don’t even care!
I mean, I don’t, 'murica isn’t the center of the universe or the first country to be taken over by a dictator.
I don’t mean you specifically; I’m talking about Americans in general. Of course you don’t care, cause it’s not your problem. What excuse do US citizens have? Literally all my peers have a similar attitude as you, and they fucking live here.
They should tell him to sit and spin on musk’s toothpick dick. What a piece of shit human being. His obituary day will be a fantastic day I will celebrate.
Absolute gold right here:
her habit of uttering ‘word salads’ — i.e., jumbles of exceptionally incoherent speech…"
Is this projection or is he too dumb to understand what she says?
Fascists accuse their enemy of what they are doing so when the tables are turned they call petty retaliation regardless of reality.
I mean, it would take a fair amount of cognitive dissonance to suggest Kamala does not speak in word salads a lot of the time. She’s a terrible speaker
You misspelled Trump
What? When?
Um, have you actually seen her speak
So you can’t point to an example. Got it.
Anyway, keep crying about maga I guess… don’t look inwards to understand why the shitty dem candidate lost. It’s definitely the independent and progressives fault. And besides, everyone who disagrees with you is a fascist and a racist.
Yes, multiple times, why haven’t you considered the problem might be you?
You can ad hominem attack me all you want but shitty democrat candidate with shitty policy’s lost the election.
And blaming the voters for your shitty candidate losing instead of the shitty candidate is going to be another losing strategy.
That’s not an ad hominem. Your ability to follow her speech is directly relevant to your perception that she is unskilled at speaking. I am directly addressing a flaw in your thinking and that isn’t an example of ad hominem as in this case it is germane to the topic at hand.
This is no different than me saying Macron was a bad speaker and you pointing out my belief that he’s a bad speaker might have something to do with the fact that Im not a french speaker. Neither is an example of ad hominem
So you can’t answer. I’m not even from the US and know better. What’s your excuse?
I don’t need an excuse to point out the obvious fact that Kamala Harris is a terrible orator who can’t talk her way out of a cardboard box if it’s not a rehearsed talking point on a teleprompter. She’s looks genuinely uncomfortable when speaking in public. If you can’t see it and you think that makes me a maga you need to get some new glasses lol. You drank way too much blue no matter who kool aid.
If it’s so obvious, why are you unable to provide a single example?
It’s all you can expect from the bOtH siDeS groupies.
It’s fun asking them to prove it. They never seem to be able to, as this absolute broomstick has again shown.
Make sides less important with state level electoral reform. People should be free to vote for who best represents them while still counting their vote if their preference didn’t win.
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
The solution is more democracy, not telling people they get no choice in the matter.
Any updates on your electoral reform campaign in your state Rhoeri?
No, she doesn’t. You might be having trouble following her though that would be a you problem
Hate to break it to you but it’s the politicians job to communicate and be understood,
It’s interesting that y’all are unable to even see obvious facts about the loser dem candidate,
Kamala is a shitty public speaker…. She just is. Obama, for example, is probably one of the best public speakers / presidential orators in our lifetime….
Trump can’t even form complete sentences…
But on the scale of good speakers versus bad speakers, Kamala is a shitty public speaker. It’s laughable to suggest otherwise.
It might be their job to be understood but that does not mean that when someone cannot understand the politician that it is always the politician’s fault. Sometimes the person listening has the problem.
This is an echo chamber for blue MAGA I don’t really care. Keep believing your false narrative I suppose you do you
Is it that hard for you to accept that your opinion isn’t factual and I disagree with you about Harris’ speaking skills?
Well she’s a horrible candidate who handed Trump a victory…. Believe whatever you want like I said…
Not from what I’ve seen.
Fuck off with your pro-MAGA bullshit. This isn’t YouTube; we’re not falling for it.
Lol… ok lemmy.world
I have multiple accounts across several instances (in case one goes down). This isn’t the “gotcha” you think it is.
She was perfectly coherent in the 60 minutes interview.
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength
He is making it so all media is too afraid to post all the shit he is pulling lest they get sued or shut down.
Yeah, this is legit scary. I’m used to media kowtowing to corporate interests for money, or whatever fox does, but somehow this is a lot more chilling.
For reference, $20B is just over the entire market cap of CBS’s parent company.
