Donald Trump’s attorneys are warning CBS News of possible legal action. They accused the network of editing Vice President Kamala Harris’ responses in a recent “60 Minutes” interview in order to mislead the public.
Trump’s lawyer claimed the manipulation was intended to present Harris more favorably ahead of the presidential election.
“Such manipulative editing was aimed at causing confusion among the electorate regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s abilities, intelligence, and appeal,” Trump lawyer Edward Andrew Paltzik wrote.
“News organizations such as CBS have a responsibility to accurately represent the truth of events, not distort an interview to try and make their preferred candidate appear coherent and decisive, which Harris most certainly is not. Due to CBS’ actions, the public cannot distinguish which Kamala Harris they are seeing: the candidate or the puppet of a behind-the-scenes editor.”
Trump’s attorney’s have stated that they may sue if CBS fails to make the complete transcript of Harris’ interview available.
“The executives and producers at CBS, and 60 Minutes in particular, are unquestionably aware that the purpose behind editing the Interview was to confuse the electorate and portray the Vice President in a better light than a full, unedited transcript would reveal. Responsible news sources must be held accountable to the highest standards,” Paltzik wrote.
“It seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” host Bill Whitaker said.
“The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region,” Harris said in a video posted online.
“We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end,” Harris said in the actual interview.
CBS defended its actions by stating it aired different parts of the same answer.
“60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes,” CBS stated. “Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response.”
Trump has described the situation as potentially “the Biggest Scandal in Broadcast History.”
“When will CBS release their Transcript of the fraudulent Interview with Comrade Kamala Harris? They changed her answer in order to make Kamala look intelligent, rather than ‘dumb as a rock,’” Trump wrote. “CBS MUST GET THE TRANSCRIPT OUT NOW — Litigation has already started. Harris wasn’t able to put two sentences together, so they completely removed her answer, and put in another one.”
