California Government Gavin Newsom He sued Fox News on Friday, sought at least $787 million in damages from a conservative network that allegedly denigrated him by making misleading comments about his call with President Donald Trump.
“There’s no lie anymore,” Newsom wrote in a tweet that announced his lawsuit. Superior Court In Delaware, where Fox News is built into.
The financial damages require that Fox Corp., Fox News, and other Fox cable networks agree to pay the Dominion voting system in April 2023.
Newsom’s suit focuses on comments by Fox News anchor Jesse Waters. He said Newsom lied about not being called Trump in early June.
The lawsuit alleges that Fox News was motivated to “liate and distort on behalf of the president.” Trump is engaged in a feud with the governor over the deployment of the California State Guard Forces and Marines in Los Angeles in response to protests over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
The civil complaint also accused Fox of “serious maliciousness against Governor Newsom.
Newsom’s lawyer said in a letter to Fox News Friday that he was ready to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit, saying, “if Fox News retracts its allegations that President Trump lied when he told him he wouldn’t call him on June 9th.”
The letter also calls for a “formal on-air apology” from Watters and Fox News in exchange for rejection of the complaint.
“If Fox News wants to lie to Americans on behalf of Donald Trump, that’s what it should be like with Dominion, that’s what it would be,” Newsom said in a statement.
“I think Americans should be able to trust the information they receive from major news outlets,” the governor said. “I will continue to fight their propaganda machines until Fox is willing to become true.”
“Gov. Newsom’s transparent propaganda stunts are frivolous and designed to cool free speech critical of him,” Fox News said in a statement.
“We have a fierce defense of this incident and look forward to it being dismissed,” the network said.
According to the lawsuit, the governor and Trump spoke about 16 minutes by phone in the second half of June 6 or early June 7, depending on their time zone.
“The content of that conversation is not closely related to the issue,” the lawsuit says.
“And when Governor Newsom tried to discuss the situation in Los Angeles, President Trump steered this topic away.”
The lawsuit tells reporters in the Oval Office a few days after June 10 that he told reporters he had last told him “a day ago.”
The president told the governor, “We had to do a better job to tell him, he’s doing a bad job. It caused many deaths and many potential deaths.”
After learning of Trump’s claims, Newsom quickly denied that the call had been made that day. Much less has been discussed about the situation in Los Angeles.
“There were no phones, there were no voicemails,” Newsom wrote in a post on social media site X.
On the evening of June 10th, Watters played an edited clip of Trump on an episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime,” removing the president’s claim that he told the newspaper “a day ago.”
Watters reported that Newsom had said he had no phone call.
Watters also said Fox News host John Roberts received Trump’s call log.
“Why would Newsom lie and claim Trump didn’t call him?” Watters asked. “Why does he do that?”
Chyron, who performed at the Watters show, said, “Gavin lied about Trump’s call.”
The lawsuit states that “rather than leaving the matter alone or simply providing facts, Fox News chose to slander Governor Newsom and make him a liar.”
“The Fox News deliberately distorted the facts by saying that President Trump was aware that it was incorrect, and that he wanted to curry favor with the president,” the lawsuit said.
Amendment: Newsom’s lawsuit alleges Fox News was motivated to “lie and distort on behalf of the president.” That quote was misunderstood in previous versions of this article.
