Jamie Raskin Torches Trump Over ‘Lunacy’ of $20 Billion CBS Lawsuit: ‘I Could Sue Fox News!’

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) torched Donald Trump over his lawsuit against CBS News, arguing that by Trump’s logic, he could “sue Fox News” for giving the president a favorable interview.

Trump is currently suing CBS News for $20 billion over an interview conducted on 60 Minutes with then-Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle. Trump’s legal team claims that the networked edited the interaction to favor Harris..

During a Wednesday morning hearing with the House Judiciary Committee, Raskin attacked Trump for using the FCC to target members of the press:

Trump and his FCC are using their powers to investigate, sue, and threaten news groups that dare to criticize the administration. Trump is suing CBS for $20 billion in damages because check this out. he believes an interview with Kamala Harris produced too favorable an impression of her. So that that means that I can sue Fox News because I think their interviews with Trump produce too favorable an impression of him. I mean, this is lunacy! And now, exploiting his asserted unitary executive powers, Trump is unleashing his sycophant. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on every news group whose stories he doesn’t approve of actually threatening to pull the government broadcast licenses for ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and NPR. Nothing of a hostile nature, of course, is taking place against Fox News, which is now the de facto state approved media enjoys immunity from the repression visited on its liberal competitors. What is this?! North Korea?!

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