President Donald Trump has apparently suffered from “mental anguish” as a result of a CBS News “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris last year, his lawyers alleged in court documents.
Trump’s attorneys made the claim Wednesday in a motion to deny Paramount Global’s request to dismiss Trump’s lawsuit, which First Amendment experts have called “frivolous and dangerous,” against CBS over the editing of the interview. (Paramount Global is the parent company of CBS.)
In the October-filed lawsuit obtained by HuffPost, Trump accuses the network of “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion.” This, according to the suit, was exhibited through two slightly differing clips of Harris discussing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with journalist Bill Whitaker.
According to court documents filed Wednesday, Trump’s attorneys claim “this led to widespread confusion and mental anguish of consumers, including plaintiffs, regarding a household name of the legacy media apparently deceptively distorting its broadcasts, and then resisting attempts to clear the public record.”
The interview “forced” Trump to “redirect significant time, money and effort to correcting the public record,” the document said.
