Summary

Donald Trump has amended his lawsuit against CBS, doubling the damages sought to $20 billion.

He also added Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson, his former White House doctor, as a co-plaintiff to keep the suit before a Trump-appointed judge in Texas.

He claims CBS deceptively edited Kamala Harris’ “60 Minutes” interview to make her appear more coherent, allegedly influencing the 2024 election and harming his Truth Social platform.

Filed in Texas, the suit alleges violations of the Lanham Act and Texas consumer protection laws.

CBS argues that the Lanham Act and Texas statute only govern commercial speech, not political or editorial speech, and has moved to dismiss the lawsuit.

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    Watch this case get a totally bogus ruling from Trump’s pet judge only to see CBS settle before any appeals court can smack it down. This whole thing that Republicans have created enabling them to pick their judge as long as a suit is filed in the correct zip code is ridiculous.

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    See what happens when you capitulate to a bully? He doesn’t stop bullying. He pushes more and bullies harder. The only way to stop a bully is to (metaphorically) punch him in his mouth.

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      Just wait til Pam Bondi decides to take the case up as a federal matter and use federal funds for the thinnest, orange skinned ass lawsuit

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      Yeah, this is legit scary. I’m used to media kowtowing to corporate interests for money, or whatever fox does, but somehow this is a lot more chilling.

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    Absolute gold right here:

    her habit of uttering ‘word salads’ — i.e., jumbles of exceptionally incoherent speech…"

    Is this projection or is he too dumb to understand what she says?

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      Fascists accuse their enemy of what they are doing so when the tables are turned they call petty retaliation regardless of reality.

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    They should tell him to sit and spin on musk’s toothpick dick. What a piece of shit human being. His obituary day will be a fantastic day I will celebrate.

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    Yes Cheeto, she couldn’t possibly be actually coherent because she graduated from law school huh?

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      You see, anyone who is of a certain type that got a law degree only got it because of DEI. There! Conservatives now have permission to ignore those credentials entirely, unless they are the right type of people.

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    I saw this amazing video from some conservative talk person breaking down all the Terrible Things in this CBS raw footage. It was so hilariously nothing. Like the entirety of it was look she pauses here so that they can edit in the picture of the interviewer asking the question. That was the whole thing. Like just normal editing techniques. I wasn’t expecting much, but good God something at least.

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    You know…

    It’s weird how mind-blowingly silent moderates are about Kamala.

    I haven’t seen a single mocking comment about if she thinks supporting a genocide is still more important than winning the election.

    Or being against healthcare reform…

    Or being pro-border wall

    Or against taxing the wealthy

    Or being pro-fracking

    Or any of the other ways she pissed off pieces of the Dem party because she wanted donations more than she wanted votes.

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      She is currently irrelevant. Her only function is to be studied as an example of failure. I really don’t care how she feels and will probably never care what she thinks ever again.

      The damage is done, she has nothing left to offer me.

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      I mean she got completely crushed and her political career is basically over. She was never very popular and she bungled the election in a most moronic fashion. Not much point in kicking her anymore is there?

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      You know….

      It’s weird how mind-blowingly obnoxious far lefters are about gEnOciDe.

      Especially when we all spent months and months telling them this shit was going to happen. And all we heard in response was “gEnOciDe!” And now- it’s SO much worse than before, that you need to take your complaints and get in line behind:

      • Systemic Government Mandated Racism

      • The Official Erasure of any acknowledgement that trans people exist.

      • A Nazi running our financial department.

      • And the EXACT SAME FUCKING GENOCIDE THAT WAS HAPPENING BEFORE, but now- with a sparkling exodus to wash it down with.

      Seriously… If you thought no one was paying attention back when you all were saying your ”bUt mUh bOtH siDeS tHiNG!”

      if you thought you weren’t being heard then….

      Rest assured that a LOT less people are listening to it now. And it’s not that anyone is in denial of it. Or minimizing it. No. It that now, everyone is too busy trying to figure out how to protect their children, their partners, and their parents from the consequent of

      mUh gEnoCiDe!:” Campaign 2024.

      People are leaving America in droves to get away from the pain that we were told would be brought to us.

      We all fucking tried to stop this from happening. We all told you what would happen. We pleaded to be taken seriously. And you called us genocide supporters and fascists. And now, all you can do is point your finger at someone that has absolutely NOTHING to do with this and whine about shit that doesn’t even matter any more?

      Seriously… WTF? You people really will go to no end that exists within time or space to avoid the consequences of what you did.

      Palestine is either going to be a glass crater, or all Palestinians will be banished from their homeland.

      Tell me… honestly-

      Did you see all this happening when you told everyone how “bOtH siDeS aRe tHe sAmE”?

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          This you?

          That’s what I say to all the braindeads who voted for the worst presidential candidate in history Ms. Holocaust Harris.

          Sure looks to me like you’re trying to blame the people that actually voted.

          Go sit down.

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              I mean, you just hypocritically accused me of something you did yourself. What context is there to miss?

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                I’m mocking the people who believe their own self-serving version of it because they can’t see past their own bluemagabrainrot. You’ll catch up one day buddy! Have a great day

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                  Your comment history is hilarious when read in context with your response.

                  Self-serving indeed.

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      If I challenged you to send one email or make one phone call to an entertainer, politician, business leader or anyone else that can get the ear of the press to say to them that they need to use that power to speak out against Israeli genocide every time you felt the need to bring up Kamala Harris, would you do it?