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Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10 billion, claiming the network fraudulently manipulated an interview with his rival Kamala Harris to improperly influence the 2024 presidential election.

The lawsuit, filed in Texas, accuses CBS of “partisan and unlawful election actions and voter interference through malicious, misleading and material news bias designed to… confuse, deceive and mislead the public” and “attempts to tip the scales “. in favor of the Democratic candidate.

His legal team filed the lawsuit in federal court in Amarillo, where the case is expected to go before a judge he appointed. Any appeal of a decision in the case would go to a Louisiana-based appeals court dominated by conservative justices who have regularly sided with Republican-backed legal challenges.

A case brought by Trump – who lives in Florida and is suing a Delaware-incorporated company based in New York – is likely to be referred to conservative District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, whom Trump nominated to the bench. Judge Kacsmaryk notably reinstated Trump's so-called “Remain in Mexico” program and ruled to revoke the government's approval of a widely used abortion drug. Both decisions were overturned by the Supreme Court.

Trump has demanded a jury trial and wants $10 billion in damages.

The lawsuit launches several paragraphs of political attacks, calling President Joe Biden's decision to end his re-election campaign “an unprecedented and anti-democratic political coup” and accusing CBS and other media outlets of “going into overdrive “to get Kamala elected.” The document refers to Harris only by her first name.

Trump's lawyers claim the news outlets “attempted to falsely portray her as the 'joy' candidate, glossed over her long list of policy failures and painted over her repeated, disqualifying gaffes,” including “word salad” and “a jumble of extraordinarily incoherent language.” which have met with disapproval even from die-hard Democratic commentators.

Thursday's sweeping claims, filed just six days before Election Day, follow Trump's obsessive attacks baselessly claiming the network did something “illegal” and manipulated their responses.

He has also repeatedly threatened to revoke CBS's broadcast license, along with other television networks that have aired critical coverage of his administration and campaign.

Trump has previously filed unsuccessful lawsuits against CNN and CNN The New York Times. A judge ruled this year that the newspaper's former president and three reporters owe nearly $400,000 for their legal fees after his lawsuit against them failed.

The Republican presidential candidate also decided not to take part 60 minutes himself. Host Scott Pelley told viewers during the Harris broadcast that Trump's campaign “complained that we were fact-checking the interview.”

“We fact-check every story,” Pelley said.

The network has since denied Trump's “false” allegations, and a lawyer for the network said there was “no legal basis” for a legal challenge after Trump's team legally threatened to release unedited transcripts.

The question is how 60 minutes aired Harris' answers to a question from host Bill Whitaker about whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is listening to the United States.

A preview of the interview, which aired on CBS's Face the Nation, shows her responding by defending America's influence as the 60 minutes The broadcast contains a response: “We will not stop pursuing what is necessary to ensure that the United States is clear about where we stand on the need to end this war.”

CBS said the network aired their response in full; A first half was broadcast on the Sunday program and the second half on the Monday program as two parts of the same answer to the same question.

“Same question. Same answer. But another part of the reaction,” the network said in a statement earlier this month.

“When we edit an interview, be it with a politician, an athlete or a movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and to the point,” the statement said. “That part of her response to 60 minutes was more concise, which leaves time for other topics in a wide-ranging 21-minute segment.”