Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks throughout an tackle on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
Workplace of California Governor through AP
California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued Fox Information on Friday, looking for damages of no less than $787 million from the conservative community for allegedly defaming him in its reporting of a telephone name he had with President Donald Trump.
“No extra lies,” Newsom wrote in a tweet that introduced his lawsuit, which was filed in Superior Court docket in Delaware, the place Fox Information is included.
The quantity of the damages the Democratic governor is looking for nearly precisely matches what Fox Corp. Fox Information, and different Fox cable networks agreed to pay Dominion Voting Programs in April 2023 to settle a Delaware lawsuit alleging they defamed Dominion by falsely claiming its machines swayed the result of the 2020 presidential election towards Trump.
Newsom’s swimsuit is targeted on feedback by Fox Information anchor Jesse Waters, who had mentioned Newsom lied concerning the name with Trump in early June.
The swimsuit alleges that Fox Information was motivated to “lie and deform on behalf of the President,” who has been engaged in a feud with the governor over the deployment of California Nationwide Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
Newsom’s attorneys, in a letter Friday to Fox Information, mentioned that the governor is ready to voluntarily dismiss his lawsuit “if Fox Information retracts the declare that he lied when talking about President Trump not calling him on June 9.” The letter additionally calls for a “formal on-air apology” from Watters and Fox Information in alternate for dismissal of the swimsuit.
“If Fox Information desires to mislead the American individuals on Donald Trump’s behalf, it ought to face penalties — identical to it did within the Dominion case,” Newsom mentioned in a press release.
“I consider the American individuals ought to be capable to belief the knowledge they obtain from a serious information outlet. Till Fox is prepared to be truthful, I’ll maintain combating towards their propaganda machine.”
CNBC has requested remark from Fox Information on Newsom’s lawsuit.
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