CBS calls Trump’s lawsuit “worthless” despite settlement talks

CBS lawyers blow up the president Donald Trump’s It filed a lawsuit Monday as “merciless” despite recently providing $15 million.

Trump is seeking $20 billion from CBS News and its parent company Paramount Global. Kamala Harris Before the presidential election.

“CBS is facing the wall and in the despair zone. The last thing they want is that this case goes to trial,” a source close to Trump said. Fox News Digital.

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Both sides are mediated in the hopes of reaching a settlement, but CBS lawyers continue to argue that the lawsuit is fake at the same time.

“This is a worthless lawsuit,” lawyers for CBS and parent company Paramount Global wrote Monday in response to Trump’s claim that they would deny CBS’s request to dismiss the lawsuit.

CBS suggested that the plaintiff’s opponents were targeting news organizations for “plaintiff dislike editorial decisions,” and asked the court to dismiss Trump’s amended complaint.

“The calm effect of the plaintiff’s ruthless attack on the First Amendment now forces them to fire,” CBS lawyers alleged.

Fox News Digital confirmed last month that Trump rejected a $15 million offer to resolve it. He is seeking greater payments and an apology from CBS News.

“President Trump is committed to keeping people who travel to tell fake news, hoaxes and lies. CBS and Paramount have targeted the president in attempts to harm his reputation while committing the worst election interference and fraud of the most important presidential elections in history.

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The months-long legal saga that Harris traded for “60 minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker in October asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “hadn’t heard” the Biden administration.

Harris was widely laughed out About the answer to “Word Salad,” which aired in a preview clip of the “Face the Nation” interview. However, when Whitaker asked the same question during the Primetime Special, Harris responded in another, more concise response. Critics at the time accused CBS news of compiling Harris’s “Word Salad” answers, protecting the then-president from further backlash until Election Day.

Earlier this year, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Brendan Kerr After the complaint was filed, we ordered CBS News to hand over an unedited transcript of the interview as part of an investigation into whether the network violated the FCC’s “news distortion” policy. CBS had refused to release unedited transcripts when the controversy first began.

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The raw transcript and footage released showed that both sets of Harris’ comments came from the same response, but CBS News aired only the first half of her response in the “Face the Nation” preview clip, and the second half of her response on Primetime Special.

In the months since then, CBS News has faced an ongoing turmoil. Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Paramount, who is battling thyroid cancer, is in favor of resolving the lawsuit with the president, but has rejected himself from a settlement argument.

Media observers believe the settlement paves the way for a planned merger with Skydance Media, hoping to prevent potential retaliation by the FCC, Trump, which has the authority to suspend billion-dollar deals.

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Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.