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California government Gavin Newsom He sued Fox News on Friday, looking for damage to at least $ 787 million of the conservative network allegedly defame him by making deceptive comments about a phone call with President Donald Trump.
“No more lies,” Newsom wrote on a tweet who announced his demand, which the Democrat presented in Upper cut In Delaware, where Fox News is incorporated.
Monetary Damages Newsom seeks almost exactly coinciding with what Fox Corp., Fox News and other Fox cable networks agreed to pay Dominion’s voting systems in April 2023 to resolve a demand for Delaware claiming that Dominion defamed by falsely claiming their machines influenced the result of the 2020 presidential elections against Trump.
Newsom’s demand focuses on the comments of Fox News Jesse Waters, who had said that Newsom lied about not having an alleged call with Trump in early June.
The demand alleges that Fox News was motivated to “lie and distort in the name of the president.” Trump has participated in a dispute with the governor on the deployment of the Troops and Marines of the California National Guard to Los Angeles in response to protests for the immigration application efforts of the Trump administration.
The civil complaint also accuses Fox of hosting “significant importance towards Governor Newsom because he is a strong progressive values champion and an articulated voice that fights the radical agenda of Fox News.”
Newsom’s lawyers, in a letter on Friday to Fox News, said he is prepared to voluntarily dismiss his lawsuit “if Fox News retracts the statement that he lied when talking about President Trump who did not call him on June 9”.
The letter also requires a “formal apology in the air” of Watters and Fox News in exchange for the dismissal of the complaint.
“If Fox News wants to lie to the American people on behalf of Donald Trump, they should face consequences, as in the case of Dominion,” said Newsom in a statement.
“I think the American people should be able to trust the information they receive from a main means of communication,” said the governor. “Until Fox is willing to be honest, I will continue fighting his propaganda machine.”
Fox News, in a statement, said: “The transparent advertising trick of Governor Newsom is frivolous and is designed to relax the critical expression of him.”
“We will defend this case vigorously and we hope it will be dismissed,” said the network.
The demand says that the governor and Trump spoke for about 16 minutes during a call at the end of June 6 or early June 7, depending on the time zone.
“The content of that conversation is not pertinent to this matter,” says the lawsuit, “but at no time President Trump raised the demonstrations in Los Angeles who had begun that day, nor discussed the National Guard.”
“And when Governor Newsom tried to discuss the situation in Los Angeles, President Trump directed the subject.”
The lawsuit indicates that days later, on June 10, Trump told journalists in the Oval office that he spent for the last time with Newsom “a day ago.”
The president said he had called the governor “to tell him, he had to do a better job, he is doing a bad job. Causing a lot of death and a lot of potential death.”
After learning about Trump’s statement, Newsom quickly denied that there would have been a call that day, much less one to discuss the situation in Los Angeles.
“There was no call. Not even a voice mail,” Newsom wrote in a publication on the social media site X.
On the night of June 10, Watters, during an episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime”, touched an edited clip of Trump that eliminated the president’s statement that he spoke with Newsom “a day ago,” says the lawsuit.
Watters later informed that Newsom had said there was no phone call.
Watters also said that Fox News presenter John Roberts had received Trump call records, which showed the president and the governor spoke for the last time on June 6 or 7.
“Why would Newsom lie and affirm that Trump never called him?” Watters asked. “Why would that do?”
A Chyron who played in the Watters program said: “Gavin lied about Trump’s call.”
The lawsuit says: “Instead of leaving the matter alone, or simply providing the facts, Fox News chose to defame Governor Newsom, qualifying him as a liar.”
“Recognizing that President Trump was not correct, but he wanted Curry with the president, Fox News voluntarily distorted the facts,” says the lawsuit.
Correction: Newsom’s demand alleges that Fox News was motivated to “lie and distort himself in the name of the president.” That appointment was incorrect in an earlier version of this article.
