ABC, Stephanopoulos Must Apologize to Trump, Pay $15 Million to Settle Defamation Suit
The $15 million counts as a charitable contribution towards a “Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff, as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past.”
ABC News and George Stephanopoulos must apologize to President-elect Donald Trump and pay $15 million as a charitable contribution towards a “Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff, as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past.”
Hahaha. ABC and Stephanopoulos will help pay for Trump’s future library and museum.
Trump filed a defamation suit after Stephanopoulos interviewed Rep. Nancy Mace (R-NC) during This Week on March 10, 2024.
Stephanopoulos told Mace that a judge and two juries found Trump “liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape.” He repeated the claim ten times during the segment.
After the federal jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse, but not rape, Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in a later ruling that just because Carroll failed to prove rape “within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’”
New York has three degrees for sexual abuse and a statute for persistent sexual abuse.
Laura Beth Nielsen of Northwestern University explained the difference:
Well, the distinction in law is about penetration.
So what we know that he has been found liable for is touching, grabbing, groping for his own sexual pleasure against her will. And, in a way, it’s a distinction without a difference. Somebody who’s willing to do one over the objection of a victim is probably willing to do the other.
But from a legal standpoint, it is a different charge.
The settlement avoids a long trial.
The defendants have to pay the $15 million “within 10 calendars days of the Effective Date of this Agreement to an escrow account to be established by Plaintiff’s counsel.”
The statement must be published within one calendar day of the effective date.
The statement: “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024.”
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“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory.”
Kilgore was here!
Unfortunately, our war will never end.
If you have a tool you can deploy to instantly defame someone and irreparably damage their reputation, the price for misusing that tool needs to be so high, no one would consider doing it. This price, 15 million, is far too low.
The reality is $15M is a gigantic settlement when it comes to defamation. This highlights what an unbelievable pair of outliers the more recent settlements/jury awards against Fox News and Alex Jones were. Without those two awards, $15M would be one of the largest defamation settlements in US history. Really makes you wonder why they’d pay that much just to keep Stephanopoulos from being deposed.
30(ish) years ago, ABC was sued by Food Lion for an outrageous act of defamation where ABC essentially fabricated evidence against the grocer by staging certain ‘undercover’ video scenes that they used in a expose against Food Lion. That case was litigated for more than a decade. While Food Lion prevailed in the end, I think they eventually only received $5M or less.
Will the mo ey come from his former employers. The Clintons
Well, Trump had no chance of being elected so what was there to lose by lying about him repeatedly?
Answer: Apparently, $15 million.
This is rich. Trump now has the funds to start building the presidential library, and ABC is paying for it.
So much WINNING!
Saying you regret something is not an apology.
Looks like Trump may get his presidential library before Biden. Although, given that he was president once already, I’m sort of surprised he doesn’t already have one.
Democrats are balking at donating to pay for Joe’s library, they must be furious that they’re donating to Trump’s.
Pony up Stuffy the Clintonest
I bet that will really stick in the craw of Snuffleupagus
Trump let them off much easier than they would have let him off.
Once again, showing their view of him is delusional and deranged, not to mention slanderous in 15 million ways.
Maybe Chrystal Mangum can explain to Jean Carroll how good it feels to come clean and admit the rape didn’t happen.
There is another big defamation suit sitting out there against Jake Tapper and CNN. After seeing this, Tapper must be sweating.
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