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California Governor Gavin Newsom tabled a defamation trial of $ 787 million against Fox News, accusing the network of denaturing a telephone call between him and US President Donald Trump earlier this month in the midst of immigration arrests and the following demonstrations in Los Angeles.
The complaint was filed on Friday at the Superior Court of Delaware, the state in which Fox Corp is incorporated.
Newsom spoke by phone with Trump late on June 6 – beginning on June 7 on the East Coast, shortly after the demonstrations broke out Los Angeles after federal immigration raids.
Less than 24 hours later, the president sent troops from the National Guard and 700 navies to the State, bypassing the Governor’s office.
In an interview with NBC News on June 8, Newsom said he had a civil conversation with the president, but he never mentioned the National Guard.
“I tried to talk about it, he wanted to talk about all these other problems,” said Newsom.
“He never mentioned the National Guard,” he added.
Newsom said he had no longer spoken to Trump and confirmed it after Trump falsely told journalists on June 10 that he spoke to the governor “one day.”
The prosecution allegedly alleged that the network had “the desire to protect President Trump from his own false statements by getting his political opponent, Governor Newsom, in a dispute at the moment when the two spoke during a period of national conflict”.
The complaint said Fox had nevertheless made a deceptive video clip and several false statements at the time of the last call, acting with real wickedness in order to mark Newsom a favor of liar and curry with Trump.
“Why would Newsom lie and claim that Trump never called him?” Watters said on June 10 in her show, Jesse Watters Primetime, according to the complaint.
Watters’ report was accompanied by a chyron, a banner legend at the bottom of a television screen, who said “Gavin lied to Trump’s call,” added the complaint.
According to the complaint, Fox’s assertion that Newsom lied “was calculated to cause indignation and cause prejudice to the governor in Newsom” by making people less likely to support his causes, to donate to his campaigns or to vote for him in the elections.
“The transparent advertising of Governor Newsom is frivolous and designed to cool freedom of expression by shouting.
In a follow -up, Al Jazeera asked Fox if Watters and his production team checked the assertions on the telephone call before talking about it – which is the standard of the industry – but the network has not brought clarification.
The demand for punitive newsmakes from Newsom is almost identical to the $ 787.5 million that Fox paid in 2023 to settle the Dominion voting systems’ Continue in premium on the caliber of votes during the American presidential election of 2020.
To prevail in his trial, Newsom should show that Fox acted with maliciousness, which means that he knew that his statements were false or had an imprudent contempt for their truth.
According to the New York Times, Newsom would abandon the trial if Fox published a withdrawal and that host Jesse Watters apologized for the antenna for declaring that the governor had lied about his call with Trump.
The Governor’s office told Al Jazeera that he would not comment because Newsom continued the trial personally and not by the office.
In a statement sent by email, Newsom said: “If Fox News wants to lie to the American people on behalf of Donald Trump, this should face consequences – just as they did in the Dominion affair. I believe that the American people should be able to trust the information they receive from a great revision. Until Fox is willing to be true, I will continue to fight against their propaganda machine.
Outside Trump’s game book
The Newsom trial occurs while Trump disappeared after the press organizations that criticized him. He reached A regulation of $ 15 million with ABC News After the network made in an inaccurate statement that a jury found Trump responsible for rape in the civil affair involving Jean Carroll, rather than sexual assault.
The White House also recently continued the network when the former White House correspondent, Terry Moran, called the Deputy Chief of the White House, Stephen Miller, a “world class hate”. Moran was then suspended and then dismissed from the network.
Trump also continued CBS News for $ 20 billion For the modification of an interview of 60 minutes with its Democrat Rival Kamala Harris, who would have been mediated in a settlement agreement of $ 20 million with the A global parent company, arousing concern in the news division. Paramount has a pending merger with Skydance.
Trump also struck Funding for public mediaWhich, according to the White House, was “radical, awakened with propaganda disguised as” news “”.
