California Governor Gavin Newsom filed a lawsuit against Fox News claiming he was defamed, demanding $787 million in damages.

The 57-year-old Democrat claims the news outlet intentionally misrepresented a phone call he had with President Donald Trump to damage his reputation.

The controversy stemmed from a comment by Fox News host Jesse Watters that the governor lied about a phone call he had with Donald Trump during a dispute over the use of the National Guard in Los Angeles, California.

While Newsom claimed he last spoke with Trump on June 6, During a press conference on June 10, the president mentioned that he had spoken with the Democrat the day before.

This inconsistency between the dates cited by both politicians was used by Fox News to portray the governor as a liar, which he did not tolerate.

In a statement, Gavin Newsom warned the news outlet that it will now have to face the consequences of its irresponsibility in court.

“If Fox News wants to lie to the American people on behalf of Donald Trump, they should face the consequences, as they did in the Dominion case,” he said regarding the incident in which the television network agreed to pay $787 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a separate defamation lawsuit after the 2020 election.

The politician, whose name is among the possible candidates for a hypothetical Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, made it clear that he will not rest until he puts the news outlet that seeks to undermine his influence in its place. image.

“Until Fox is willing to tell the truth, I will continue to fight against his propaganda machine,” he emphasized in the same letter.

In recent years, Several figures linked to politics have been involved in lawsuits aimed at obtaining multi-million dollar compensation, as is the case of Donald Trump's legal dispute against Paramount Global, the parent company of the CBS television network, which he is demanding pay $20 billion for allegedly having edited an interview with Kamala Harris to benefit her in the last elections, which directly harmed the Republican campaign.