To back down, of course, would be to break the litigious habits of a lifetime. He may well be the most litigious president in US history; by the time he was first elected in 2016, USA Today’s analysis suggested he had been involved in 3,500 lawsuits over three decades. In many of the earlier lawsuits he brought against media organisations, however, he lost. The interview had been edited to make Harris sound more articulate, he claimed, as her “word salad” answer had been doctored. Paramount noted that the settlement, which was agreed in July this year, did not include an apology or an expression of regret.
