ABC News Settles Defamation Suit with Trump for $15 Million

Saturday, December 14, 2024

ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit.

Posted by gracieamazed at 09:31 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

JUST IN: A day after Trump and George Stephanopoulos were ordered to appear for depositions, they settled the case. ABC has agreed to make a $15 million contribution to Trump presidential museum/foundation and air an apology for mischaracterizing the E. Jean Carroll verdict.

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-- Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) December 14, 2024 at 3:49 PM

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(Grabs popcorn to wait for deafening silence or tears)

#1 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-12-14 06:01 PM

Grabs popcorn to wait for deafening silence or tears)

Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-12-14 06:01 PM | Reply

You need LZKoed. Just sayin

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-14 06:04 PM

"In 2023, a jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll, sufficient to hold him liable for battery, though it did not find that Carroll proved he raped her.

The jury awarded Carroll $5 million for battery and defamation. In January, Carroll was awarded an additional $83.3 million in damages for defamatory statements made by Trump that disparaged her and denied her rape allegations.

A judge concluded in August 2023, when dismissing Trump's countersuit against Carroll, that the claim Trump raped Carroll was "substantially true."

The judge wrote that Trump "raped" her in the broader sense of that word, as people generally understand it, though not as it is narrowly defined by New York state law."

Good to know.

The 'shroom may have not actually, technically, have been up to it.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-14 06:26 PM

@#3 ... A judge concluded in August 2023, when dismissing Trump's countersuit against Carroll, that the claim Trump raped Carroll was "substantially true." ...

Yeah, but "substntially true" is not "true."

I think it is good that the Justice system finds that such a minor distinction is important, even critical.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-14 07:15 PM

@#1 ... Posted by Bluewaffles ...

Hey, I thought your current alias had said it was leaving this most august site for a hiatus.

Yet, here it is (again).

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-14 07:17 PM

... The network will pay $15 million to a charity and will issue an apology. ...

Only $15 million, and paid to a charity?

How much did Fox "News" have to pay, and to whom?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-14 07:19 PM

ABC will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a "presidential foundation and museum