California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has hit Fox News with a $787 million defamation lawsuit after the network falsely claimed Newsom lied about a conversation he had with President Donald Trump.
The suit, filed Friday in Delaware, where Fox News is incorporated, accuses the network ― and Fox News host Jesse Watters ― of deliberately misrepresenting a phone call Newsom had with Trump amid protests in Los Angeles earlier this month.
“Fox knew the falsity of the lies its agents were promoting about Governor Newsom,” says the lawsuit, obtained by HuffPost.
The issue first began after Trump claimed on June 10 that he had spoken to Newsom about “a day ago” regarding Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
The two leaders had spoken by phone late at night June 6 in California, which would have been June 7 in Washington.
