CBS Studios is shown during the Vice Presidential debate between Senator JD Vance and Tim Walz on Oct. 1, 2024, in New York City. | Source: Anadolu / Getty
Look, I realize it’s hard to tell at this point, but Donald Trump has lost his mind.
After spending weeks complaining that Kamala Harris’ 60 Minutes interview was edited to “make her look better” — which he had started whining about before the episode even aired after he saw two promotions for the interview that showed what appeared to be Harris giving two different answers to the same question — Trump has made good on his delusional threat to sue CBS News because he has found a judge who just might take him seriously.
According to the Washington Post, Trump filed his complaint in the Northern District of Texas courthouse accusing CBS of editing Harris’ interview in a way that was “deceitful” and “amounts to a brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.”
We really didn’t need any more evidence that Trump doesn’t actually understand what election interference is — even as he is currently a defendant in multiple election interference cases — but Don the Delulu is at least pretending his case has merit, so much so that his lawsuit is seeking a preposterous $10 billion.
$10 BILLION dollars, y’all — with a capital B.
The lawsuit claims that, somehow, Harris’ 60 Minutes interview “damaged President Trump’s fundraising and support values by several billions of dollars, particularly in Texas.” That’s Trump’s rationale for demanding an 11-figure judgment over a few minutes of lightly edited footage.
So, why would Trump have any confidence at all that his long shot of a lawsuit might be successful? Well, apparently, he thinks he has a judge in his pocket. Trump intentionally chose to file his suit with a court where Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk sits on the bench. Kacsmaryk is a controversial far-right federal judge whom Trump appointed while he was president, and that’s apparently why Trump believes his First Amendment-be-damned lawsuit against a news network that did absolutely nothing wrong actually has legs.
From the Post:
Thursday’s lawsuit appears to be another example of what critics call “judge shopping” — when a person or group files a lawsuit in a carefully chosen court where they believe the judge will be inclined to rule in their favor.
Much of the anger over judge shopping has been focused at the Northern District of Texas, which has become a hub for lawsuits by Republican officials and conservative groups. Kacsmaryk, known for his long-held antiabortion beliefs, has heard multiple suits involving federal government decisions that appear to have no clear reason to be filed in his courthouse.
In ruling on those cases, he has suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, a critical abortion medication; blocked the Biden administration from ending the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program; and struck down two Biden administration protections for transgender people. The mifepristone decision was overturned on appeal.
This nonsensical case is just more proof that Trump is guilty of everything he accuses others of. Ever since the ex-president has been drowning in self-inflicted legal woes, he has been whining about what he and the rest of the MAGA world perceive as judicial bias, and yet here he is brazenly engaging in shopping around for biased judges like he was adding them to his Amazon wish list because he needs someone who is as lacking in integrity as he is to hear his ridiculous case, which also accuses CBS of engaging in “substantial and not isolated business activities.”
Of course, a spokesperson for CBS News called the lawsuit “completely without merit” and said in a statement that the network “fairly presented the Interview to inform the viewing audience, and not to mislead it.”
Mind you, even if Trump’s suit had merit, it would only mean that Harris could also sue Fox News with much more evidence of selective editing to make Trump look less unhinged.
As we previously reported, Trump paid a visit to a Black barbershop in the Bronx last week as part of his Black friend pander-o-thon moderated by Black Fox News host Lawrence Jones. During the visit, Trump took questions from Black and Latino potential voters, but when the segment aired on Fox & Friends, well, let’s just say it wasn’t the same interview, and the selective editing went well beyond a single question asked by a single interviewer.
From CNN:
The televised broadcast omitted Trump’s comments about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. He told the barbershop customers that “they just dumped 50,000 people — 32,000 migrants from another country — in Springfield, Ohio. They don’t know what to do.” The actual number of migrants in Springfield is far lower, according to the city’s own data. The broadcast also left out Trump’s gross exaggerations about crime in Aurora, Colorado.
One of the most telling parts of the dialogue began when an audience member asked Trump about finding a way to eliminate federal taxes in the future. On Fox, Trump was shown immediately answering affirmatively: “There is a way.”
But that response from Trump actually came more than seven minutes later, after Trump (and Jones) brought up other topics, including inheritances, the Keystone Pipeline, Ronald Reagan, Russia, and transgender sports players. Trump had to be nudged back on track several times by the unnamed audience member, who kept circling back, apologetically, and said “I wasn’t able to finish my question.” After he repeated his tax inquiry yet again, Trump said “there is a way.”
But on Fox, it was stitched together as one seamless back-and-forth.
These are only a few examples of Fox editing the interview, not for the sake of time, but for the sake of not showing off Trump’s glaring cognitive decline so close to Election Day.
As for Trump’s most recent display of absolute hypocrisy, CBS isn’t alone in thinking Trump’s suit is as meritless as the few dozen election fraud suits Trump brought before judges in 2020 only to be told the filings have no substance, let alone proof.
“This is obviously a public relations stunt, an attempt to undermine the credibility of not only Harris and not only of CBS News, but of all traditional mainstream legacy media,” said Robert Jensen, an emeritus professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. “Traditional mainstream legacy media reports critically about Trump’s deceptions, his coarse language, his lies, his abusive language, and so Trump is always trying to undermine the credibility of those journalists.”
Trump is consistently a living, breathing example of the “fake news” he’s always going on about.
Can we please keep this man as far away from the White House as possible next week? Please?
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