Jesse Watters Gives On-Air Apology To Gavin Newsom, But It's Not Enough To Stop Lawsuit
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Fox News' Watters apologized to the California governor for saying he lied about a call with Trump. "See you in court, buddy," Newsom replied.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said he plans to see Fox News host Jesse Watters in court despite an on-air apology from the host after he falsely claimed Newsom lied about a phone conversation with President Donald Trump.
Newsom filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News and Watters last month, accusing the network of deliberately misrepresenting a phone call Newsom had with Trump amid protests in Los Angeles in June. He is suing for $787 million, a symbolic number that mirrors the amount Fox News paid to Dominion Voting Systems in 2023 for lies the network pushed about the 2020 presidential election.
The issue centers around a false claim Trump made on June 10 that he had spoken to Newsom about “a day ago” regarding his deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
After Newsom denied having talked to Trump that recently, Trump provided a screenshot of a call log between him and Newsom to Fox News’ John Roberts. But the image instead corroborated Newsom’s account that the two had actually talked for roughly 16 minutes June 7 ― not June 9, as Trump claimed.
That didn’t stop Watters from deliberately covering for Trump later that night on his program, and claiming Newsom had lied, the lawsuit alleges.
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