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CBS has moved to dismiss Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, calling it an attack on the First Amendment.

Trump alleges CBS edited the interview to harm him politically, citing “voter interference.” CBS attorneys argue the lawsuit seeks to punish “constitutionally protected editorial judgments” and is “without basis in law or fact.”

If not dismissed, CBS wants it moved to New York, where its headquarters is located.

The move comes as a surprise because CBS had considered settling to avoid delaying its $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, which requires regulatory approval.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 269 points 11 months ago (6 children)

CBS realized if they gave in, Trump had no plans of stopping attacks whatsoever. So if you're gonna get attacked anyways, you might as well fight back .

[–] fan0m@lemmy.world 77 points 11 months ago

This is the way

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is the only logical move they have. Good to see someone still has ethical brains in business these days.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope everyone dealing with him recognizes this and stops trying to deal with him

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

No no, don't worry. They're still going to work for him and do his bidding, they're just not going to be bullied into paying him $20billion over a factually imaginary grievance. They'll get the case thrown and then issue a public apology for having to defend themselves and then immediately hardline into defending the administration. Tale as old as time.

This is of course assuming the admin doesn't simply revoke their broadcast license before they get the chance to bend back over.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Corporations and their owners thought that Trump would boost the stock market through tax cuts. Instead the market is tanking due to his moronic tariffs and Russia-appeasement strategy. Now that it’s clear he won’t be making them money they have rediscovered their “morals”.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope this is true. I've always hoped that the one think that might save us is MAGA's virtuosic incompetence.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe this time.

The policies of the Nazi party took a while to fully implement. Even after the Enabling Act, it took a while before anyone felt it. With each dumb policy, fascists need to double down on blaming outside actors. They have to do this, because this is the only way they can cover for their failures.

The problem this time is they are implementing three years of policy changes per week. It happened too fast, and their attempts to blame others aren't taking root.

More generally, people should be more aware of how things are different in this regime compared to 1930s Germany. The comparison is obvious, but we'll miss opportunities if we think everything is the same.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I recently read a Guardian article about how the crackdown on non-violent protestors in the UK is leading climate activists to a little more, uh, active forms of protest. If you're going to jail for five years anyway, you might as well make it count.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The can't legally make allowing the merger to be a conditionon a settlement agreement. So there'd be nothing to keep his petty ass from stopping it either way.

They're greedy and would do anything for the merger, but Trump doesn't honor his deals.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure it works the same way with the mafia. I doubt companies that pay extortion to the mafia only do a one-time payment.

[–] kresten@lemmy.wtf 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What makes you think this is not going to be a recurring thing if they settle this one?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That's exactly my point. Bending over and taking it is not going to do them any favors, since little d will be back at it anyway.