CBS rubbishes Trump effort to avoid discovery with erroneous privilege and national security claims [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
Apr 8th, 2025, 2:03 pm
President Donald Trump is refusing to produce relevant evidence in his $20 billion lawsuit against CBS, the network’s attorneys say. In a 23-page motion to compel, CBS alleges Trump and his co-plaintiff, Rep. Ronny Jackson, a Republican from Texas, have shirked their discovery obligations despite a court-ordered due date last month.
Meanwhile the network, and co-defendant Paramount Global, have complied with their own discovery obligations, the motion claims. “Despite their insistence that discovery move forward, Plaintiffs have shown very little desire to produce their own documents, relying on unfounded objections and delay tactics,” the motion to compel reads.
The locus of the discovery dispute gets to the heart of the lawsuit itself, according to the media defendants. In the underlying litigation, Trump is claiming massive money damages; Jackson, for his part, is claiming “substantial damages” which he insists he will prove during a trial. In neither case, however, will the plaintiffs provide documents backing up their claimed losses, CBS says.
“Despite the size of their requested damages award, both President Trump and Representative Jackson have refused to produce evidence substantiating their damages during fact discovery,” the motion reads. “In particular, President Trump refuses to produce information about the holdings of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, the vehicle which received 114,750,000 shares of Trump Media & Technology Group stock, which forms the basis of President Trump’s alleged damages.”
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Full headline: ‘Inherently incredible’: CBS rubbishes Trump effort to avoid discovery with ‘erroneous’ privilege and national security claims in $20 billion lawsuit over Kamala Harris interview
Link to MOTION (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.396451/gov.uscourts.txnd.396451.57.0.pdf
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