Newsom's lawsuit is seeking $787 million in damages from Fox News, alleging defamation and violations of California's unfair competition law. The amount matches the settlement Fox News reached with election equipment company Dominion Voting Systems in 2023.
"No more lies," Newsom wrote on X Friday, announcing the $787 million lawsuit.
Newsom alleges in the lawsuit that Fox News misrepresented the timeline of a call between him and Mr. Trump. He acknowledged that the president and governor had a phone call on June 7 but says he did not speak about the protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles. That call was the last time Newsom and Mr. Trump spoke, the governor claims.
The White House has been publicly critical of how Newsom handled the Los Angeles protests, prompting Mr. Trump's deployment of the National Guard. Newsom has said that Mr. Trump's actions inflamed the situation, calling the deployment "reckless."
According to the lawsuit, Fox News then presented the previous June 7 call between Newsom and Mr. Trump as evidence that the California governor was allegedly lying.
The lawsuit will be dropped if Fox News retracts the comments and apologizes, Newsom's lawyers wrote.
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