California Democrat threatens to sue The Intercept over reporting on 'fabricated' voicemail
Gil Cisneros, a California Democrat running for the state’s 39th Congressional District, is threatening to sue The Intercept for reporting about a short voicemail he claims was fabricated, The Washington Post reported.
The voicemail, which was reportedly left on his opponent’s wife’s phone, is just a few seconds long and states: “Hi Andy. It’s Gil Cisneros. I’m gonna go negative on you.”
His opponent, Andy Thorburn, apparently provided the audio recording to The Intercept, which then wrote a story about the incident that featured the audio.
Cisneros says the voice in the recording is not his and threatened to sue The Intercept if it did not take down the story by the 3 p.m. Pacific time deadline, which The Intercept has not done.
The Intercept has said that it is standing by the story and noted that Cisneros refused to respond to questions until after the story was published.
“Multiple sources familiar with Mr. Cisneros identified the voice as the candidate’s voice,” The Intercept’s legal team penned in a statement to the Post. “The context, including the fact that Mr. Cisneros’s campaign did, in fact, go negative soon thereafter, supports the authenticity of the tape message.”
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