Gavin Newsom accuses Fow News to distort details of a call between him and the US President Donald Trump
The governor of California, Gavin Newsomfiled a lawsuit of $ 787 million against Fox News, on Friday (27), accusing the broadcaster to distort details of a call between him and the president, Donald Trumpat the beginning of the month. “No more lies,” the Democrat Governor protested, who leads the opposition against the government of the Republican president.
Newsom filed the lawsuit on Friday (27) at a Delaware Court, where television station Fox News is registered. According to the action, Newsom and Trump would have talked by telephone in early June, but would not have addressed the wave of protests against the migratory operations promoted by Washington and who shook Los Angeles at the time. On June 7, a few hours after the call, the US president ordered the National Guard to the city.
Trump said at a press conference at White houseon June 10, when he sent an additional 700 Marines contingent to the state, who had talked to Newsom “a day”, a statement that the governor refuted on social networks. Fox News presenter Jesse Watters assured that the governor lied by denying the call.
Another Fox journalist, John Roberts, said President Trump sent him his call record to prove that Newsom lied, but in the capture of screen the information was a call at dawn on June 7. “June 7 to 1h23 is not ‘a day’, when you are talking on June 10,” said the lawyers of Newsom.
According to the lawsuit, the politician states that Fox News acted with “malice”. “Instead of leaving things like this or simply informing the facts, Fox News has chosen Governor Newsom, placing him as a liar,” says the action. “By recognizing that President Trump was not right, but still wanting to win the president’s favor, Fox News distorted the facts deliberately,” he adds.
In addition to the economic compensation of $ 787 million, Newsom asked the Court to prohibit the television station to reproduce false information about the conversation. The figure is almost identical to that FOX and its associates agreed to pay in 2023 to terminate a process for defamation with the dominion voting system electoral technology company, after the network stated that its machines influenced the result of the 2020 presidential elections over Trump. “If Fox News wants to lie to the Americans in the name of Donald Trump, he should face the consequences, as he did in the case of dominion,” Newsom said in a statement.
His lawyers sent a letter to Fox News to inform the broadcaster that if it depicts the information transmitted and issues a public apology, Newsom would give up the action.
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Fox News has qualified the process of a “advertising maneuver”. The broadcaster added that the legal action “is light and designed to restrict the freedom of expression that criticizes it.”
Source: Jovempan
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