California Gavin Governor filed a lawsuit worth $ 787 million against Fox News Network, claiming that he defined him during the relationship with the telephone conversation with President Donald Trump at the beginning of this month among the then demonstrations in Los Angeles protesting against the president’s immigration policy.
A lawsuit is focused primarily on the FOX news segment from the host Jesse Watters, in which the compatriot from Philadelphia demanded a democratic The governor lied about the conversation with Trump before moving the president to place the soldiers of the National Guard to protests. The Watters program used the edited video from Trump’s statements to call to support the claim, claims that the complaint filed on Friday at the Supreme Court in Delaware.
The complaint states that he talked to Trump on June 6 at 22:23 Pacific time or soon after 1 am in the eastern time. During the 16-minute call, the complaint claim, Trump did not move to discuss the demonstration in Los Angeles or mention the exploit of the National Guard and avoided these problems when he tried to move them to the news. On June 9, about 2,000 soldiers were sent to the city, According to NBC News.
During the press briefing in the White House of June 10, Trump told journalists that he talked to the “day ago” newsom to tell him that he had to “better perform”. The complaint claims that Trump made this statement to indicate that the couple had spoken recently than actually, and suggest that they discussed the situation in Los Angeles. Later on the same day, he answered the news to Trump’s statement in social media, writing in a post about X: “There was no call. Even voicemail.”
During his show of June 10, in the case of the lawsuit, Watters recreated the edited video from Trump’s statements in the White House, where part of the “day ago” was removed. During the Chyron report at the bottom of the screen it was: “Gavin lied about Trump’s call,” as a complaint. The network also showed a screenshot of Trump connection journals, obtained by the host John RobertsThis indicated that the couple’s telephone connection happened In the early morning hours on June 7.
“Why would he lie to news and claim that Trump never called him?” Watters asked during the broadcast.
News claims that the network “developed this lie about the Governor of News from the desire to hurt him political.” In addition to searching for $ 787 million criminal damages – the amount that is almost identical to Settlement for Dominion Network voting systems – News are looking for an indefinite amount of compensation damage. The governor also asks for a court order, which prevents Fox News from limiting the content indicating that he has lied about the connection.
“The transparent advertising feat of the Governor of News is frivolous and designed to give up freedom of speech critical for him,” said Fox News in a statement. “We will vigorously defend this matter and wait for it to be dismissed.”
In a letter to Fox, lawyers indicated that he would give up a lawsuit if the network issued withdrawal and Watters apologized in the air, According to New York Times. Because the news is implementing a lawsuit as an unit, not as a governor, his office refused to comment. The news representative did not answer immediately at the request for comment.
“If Fox News wants to lie to the American people on behalf of Donald Trump, it should face the consequences – as in the case of Dominion,” “,” The news said in a statement for Politico. “As long as Fox is ready, I will fight their propaganda machine.”
