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CBS Seeks to Toss Donald Trump's Lawsuit Over '60 Minutes' Interview With Kamala Harris

Dec 07, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -47% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump filed the suit on Oct. 31 in the Amarillo Division of the Northern District of Texas, which has one judge: Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee.
36% : His lawyers argued that as a "consumer" of CBS's broadcast services, Trump and millions of others were deceived and misled by the Harris interview.
29% : The network also noted that Trump's claims of election interference are moot, since Trump won the election.
26% : Trump sued in the waning days of the presidential campaign, claiming that Harris' interview had been deceptively edited to make her appear "coherent and decisive.
15% : "Trump sued under the Texas consumer fraud statute.
15% : CBS countered that the law does not apply to news broadcasts, that Trump would have no standing to sue even if it did, that Trump was not actually confused by the interview, and therefore that he did not rely on it to his detriment.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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