Former President Donald Trump’s legal team told CBS News on Monday he was considering litigation if the news outlet did not release the full transcript of its “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
CBS has come under fire in recent days after it aired two different versions of Harris’ response to a question on Israel, one in a promotional clip online and the other in the actual broadcast interview. Trump’s legal team argued that CBS edited Harris’ answer to tilt the scales in her favor and mislead the public ahead of the presidential election.
“Such manipulative editing was aimed at causing confusion among the electorate regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’s abilities, intelligence, and appeal,” Trump lawyer Edward Andrew Paltzik wrote in a letter to CBS. “News organizations such as CBS have a responsibility to accurately represent the…
