The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is demanding Fox News for $ 787 million per defamation.
Newsom accusations arise from the coverage of the battle of the battle of Jesse Watters, presenter of Fox News, between the governor and President Donald Trump when the Trump administration sent the National Guard of California to Los Angeles earlier this month.
Watters supposedly reported about Fox News that Newsom lied about a phone call with Trump, and the governor states in his demand that the Watters program deceptively edited a Trump video to support the claim.
Trump, asked about a journalist on June 10 when it was the last time he had spoken with Newsom, replied: “A day ago. He called him to tell him, he had to do a better job, he is doing a bad job,” although, according to Newsom, the last time they had spoken was three days before that, at 1:28 am et on June 7, and Newsom said they had not discussed the protests in the question.
After Newsom said in X that the two had not spoken on June 9, since Trump seemed to have said, Watters, according to the lawsuit, accused Newsom of Lying and touched Trump’s video telling the journalist that the two had spoken, but edited the beginning of the clip where Trump said “A day ago.”
“If Fox News wants to lie to the American people on behalf of Donald Trump, they should face consequences, just as he did in the case of Dominion,” said Newsom in a statement on Friday, referring to the 2023 Fox agreement, Fox, reached with the domain voters systems, for $ 787 million of $ 787 million, after the company of the voting machine, he accused the news of the news, he accused the news of the news, he accused the news of the news, he accused the news of the news. News of the false conspiracy of those who joined the people who join the election of the 2020 election.
“I think the American people should be able to trust the information they receive from a main means of communication,” said Newsom in their statement. “Until Fox is willing to be honest, I will continue fighting his propaganda machine.”
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, answers the questions during a press conference in San Francisco, on June 12, 2025.
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In a letter sent to Fox, Newsom’s lawyers said that unless Fox News emits a retraction and apology in the air, “we will proceed with the demand so that a jury can determine the guilt of Fox News and assign a monetary value to its ‘blatantly little ethical'” behavior.
Fox News, in a statement, said: “The transparent advertising trick of Governor Newsom is frivolous and is designed to relax the critical expression of him. We will defend this case vigorously and we hope we will be dismissed.”
