NEWSOM judges Fox News because of the controversial conversation with Trump

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Governor Gavin Newo is suing Fox News for slander, claiming that the network had lied to the date on which he last spoke with President Donald Trump on the phone and accused the governor of lying to the call.

“By neglecting the main journalistic ethics in favor of malicious propaganda, Fox continues to play a major role in the more erosion of the principles based on the informed representative government,” the lawsuit said.

The case brought on Friday by Newsom as an individual is looking for damage of $ 787 million from the net – approximately the same amount Fox News agreed to pay Dominion vote systems In 2023, to settle a defamation case regarding the claims for the selection of the network. Newsom promised to refuse the case if Fox News withdrew his claim that Newsom had lied and made an official apology on air.

For some democratic strategists, the Newsom move demonstrates the governor’s desire to check Trump’s power. This is the last episode of On with the exception of enmity Between him and Trump, who cooperates with the help of Los Angeles Wilde fire earlier this year, but is fighting for the deployment of the President of the troops to suppress the unrest in the same city, despite the Newsom objection.

“Democrats across the country are there that Democrats take Trump,” said longtime democratic consultant Gary South. “In part through Trump’s own obstacles and his own mistakes, I think he has inadvertently strengthened Newsom in the position of being the main character against him.”

Fox News said in a statement that this would protect the case “energetic”.

“The transparent cascade for the publicity of the governor Newsom is non -serious and designed to cool the free speech critical of it,” the statement said.

Newsom’s attorneys said in a letter that the network deliberately misled his audience to believe that the governor had lied to his last call with Trump earlier this month before the two were confronted because of the Deliver of the National Guard’s troops and the marines in Los.

The governor has been talking to Trump on the phone for 16 minutes on June 7, the letter said. But Trump told a reporter on June 10 that Instead, he had talked to Newsom “the day”Stating that he called Newsom “to tell him, he must do better work, he does a bad job.”

Newsom rebuked the president in an X statement, claiming that there was no call or even a voicemail from Trump on that day. “Americans have to worry that the president who has marines on our streets does not even know who he is talking to,” he said.

But Fox News hosts John Roberts and Jesse Waters left Trump’s comment, suggesting that the call took place on June 9th in their coverage, according to Newsom lawyers. And Waters argues on air that he has lied to Newsom, although he reported that the call diaries show that the call happened on June 6th.

“Why can Newsom lie and claim that Trump never called him? Why would he do that?” Waters said, as a banner appeared on the screen at the same time, saying, “Gavin lied to the call of Trump.”

Newsom’s lawyers say the reflection shows the effort of the network to “cover up President Trump’s mistake.”

But in the Fox News judge, Newsom takes a page from Trump’s own book, judging by prominent media for their coverage, making concerns from the defenders of the first amendment who called on Newsom to refuse the case.

“Judicial cases like this risk are becoming a form of censorship and send an alarming message to news organizations: that they can face legal revenge for their work,” says Catherine Jacobsen, coordinator of the Committee for Journalist Protection.

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