Trump threatens legal action against Washington Post and CBS for their coverage of Harris and ads.

• The former president and his campaign have initiated legal proceedings against CBS News and The Washington Post.
• A civil federal lawsuit against a newspaper and an FEC complaint against CBS arise from allegations that these networks are assisting the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
• The $10 billion federal lawsuit and the FEC complaint were criticized by legal experts.

Prior to the presidential election, Donald Trump and his campaign have initiated legal proceedings against two prominent media outlets, alleging that they are unlawfully supporting Kamala Harris through their reporting and advertisements.

Legal experts said that Trump's efforts are frivolous.

On Thursday, the Republican's campaign filed a Federal Election Commission complaint alleging that The Washington Post made "Illegal Corporate In-Kind Contributions" to Harris.

The campaign accused the Post of promoting negative coverage of Trump over neutral coverage of the Democratic nominee, based on a Semafor report.

The FEC complaint claims that Semafor's report suggests that the Post is running a secret corporate campaign against President Trump.

Columbia Law School Professor Richard Briffault stated that the claim is "completely preposterous" on CNBC.

Briffault, an expert in campaign finance regulation and political law, stated that there is no evidence of coordination between the Post and the Harris campaign in the allegations.

The Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC protects the Post's ads as independent expenditures, according to him.

Briffault stated that since the Trump letter does not explicitly support Harris, the Post's actions do not qualify as independent expenditures.

"This is a legal action that involves a press statement and is not as significant as other matters."

The Washington Post regularly promotes high-performing content across all verticals and subjects through social media marketing, as stated by a spokesperson for the newspaper on Friday.

The spokesperson stated that the allegations suggesting the routine media practice is improper are unfounded.

On Thursday, Trump sued CBS for $10 billion in damages over the network's editing of a "60 Minutes" interview with Harris that aired in early October.

The suit alleging that CBS illegally interfered in the election to favor Harris, which spans 19 pages, is solely based on the network broadcasting two different segments of Harris' response to the same question.

In a clip from the CBS "Face the Nation" interview, Harris responds to a question.

But "60 Minutes" showed a different portion of Harris' response.

Trump has consistently asserted on social media and during campaign events that the editorial decision represents the "greatest media scandal in broadcast history."

The federal government has been demanded by him to revoke CBS's broadcast license.

"On Oct. 20, "60 Minutes" refuted Trump's accusation of deceitful editing, stating that his claim was false."

"The show stated that Face the Nation used a longer section of her answer than what was shown on 60 Minutes, even though the question and answer were the same."

CBS declared Trump's lawsuit as having no basis in reality on Thursday.

A constitutional law expert, Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman, stated on CBS that the case was a "blatant violation of First Amendment rights."

Rebecca Tushnet, a First Amendment attorney at Harvard Law, stated that the lawsuit is "absurd nonsense" and should be ridiculed.

A Trump nominee with a conservative judicial record, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, will hear Trump's suit filed in U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas.