Fox News' Jesse Watters admits mistake in program claiming Newsom lied about Trump call

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: Maddow Blog-California's Gavin Newsom sues Fox News, seeking a very specific amount of money

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Source: Los Angeles Times

Fox News' Jesse Watters admits mistake in program claiming Newsom lied about Trump call

Stephen Battaglio
Thu, July 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM EDT
3 min read

Fox News host Jesse Watters acknowledged Thursday that his program made a mistake in reporting on Gov. Gavin Newsom's phone conversation with President Trump during last month's immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Newsom filed a $787-million defamation lawsuit against Watters and Fox News on June 27 after the host reported on comments Trump made about a phone call with the governor as tensions heated up over the raids and the president’s decision to deploy the National Guard.

Newsom's lawsuit said Watters lied on his prime-time program about the timeline of his conversations with the president.

After the lawsuit was filed in a Delaware court, Newsom's lawyers said they were prepared to drop the suit if the governor got a retraction and a formal on-air apology. The suit claims Fox News willfully distorted the facts about the Trump call to harm the governor politically.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-jesse-watters-admits-030058429.html

[we can do it]

1. Mistake, nah LIE.

[Blue Ozarks]

2. It wasn't a mistake...

It was a bold faced lie.

Watters is best known for throwing incendiary lie bombs. A real asshat.

The lawsuit forced him to retract.