California Gov. Gavin Newsom has sued Fox News for defamation, demanding $787 million in monetary damages.
The governor alleged that Fox News host Jesse Watters used an edited clip of President Trump’s remarks about Newsom to falsely claim that Newsom had lied about Trump not calling him about deploying National Guard troops to quell L.A. protests.
“This lawsuit concerns Fox’s willingness to protect President Trump from his own false statements by smearing his political opponent Governor Newsom in a dispute over when the two last spoke during a period of national strife,” Newsom’s lawsuit said. A copy of the complaint, filed Friday in Delaware Superior Court, is at this link.
Fox News said in a statement, “Gov. Newsom’s transparent publicity stunt is frivolous and designed to chill free speech critical of him. We will defend this case vigorously and look forward to it being dismissed.”
In Newsom’s suit, the Democratic governor said he last spoke with Trump on June 7 at about 1:23 a.m. ET for approximately 16 minutes by phone, two days before the president — over Newsom’s objections — deployed 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles. That, according to the lawsuit, was the last time the two of them spoke.
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