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CBS News\u2019 parent company, Paramount Global, has filed a pair of motions seeking to dismiss President Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s $20 billion lawsuit against the news organization.<\/p>\n

The president filed the lawsuit in October 2024\u00a0 accusing CBS News of aligning itself with \u201cpartisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference.\u201d Trump was specifically referring to edits made during a 60 Minutes interview with\u00a0 former Vice President Kamala Harris <\/strong>in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n

In the first motion<\/a>, Paramount Global\u00a0called the president\u2019s lawsuit\u00a0 an \u201caffront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact.\u201d The media conglomerate added that Trump\u00a0 seeks to \u201cpunish a news organization for constitutionally protected editorial judgments they do not like.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

The second motion states<\/a> that the First Amendment protects CBS News\u2019 editorial judgement, which\u00a0is considered non-commercial speech and thus lies outside the scope of the Lanham Act and the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.<\/p>\n

The motions to dismiss were filed on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, where Trump\u2019s lawsuit was initially filed. That court has come across as providing favorable verdicts<\/a> for conservatives in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CBS News publicly released an unedited transcript<\/a> of its 60 Minutes interview in February after the Trump-appointed FCC head Brendan Carr<\/strong> lodged an official request for the unedited transcript as well as the camera feeds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[The transcript is] consistent with 60 Minutes\u2019 repeated assurances to the public that the 60 Minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful,\u201d CBS News noted on its website.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In its lawsuit, which was initially pegged at $10 billion<\/a>, Trump\u2019s legal team alluded to CBS News engaging in \u201cdeceitful\u201d editing, saying: \u201cCBS used its national platform on 60 Minutes to cross the line from the exercise of judgment in reporting to deceitful, deceptive manipulation of news.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paramount Global is in the final stages of completing its merger with Skydance Media. Paramount head Shari Redstone <\/strong>is reportedly eager to see the lawsuit settled to ensure that the deal proceeds.<\/p>\n

In a New York Times report<\/a>, Owens stood by 60 Minutes\u2019 work, saying: \u201cThe company knows I will not apologize for anything we have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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