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ABC News donates $15 million to Donald Trump’s Future Presidents Foundation and Museum to settle defamation lawsuit against the station over on-air comments made by one of its star anchors, George Stephanopoulos By appointment, President-elect Trump has won a rare legal victory. news media.
As part of the settlement, the station will add an editor’s note at the end of the March online article expressing the anchor’s “regret” for his comments in an interview with ABC and U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace. also agreed. Originally from South Carolina.
“ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have published comments about President Donald J. Trump that George Stephanopoulos made during an interview with Congresswoman Nancy Mace on ABC’s ‘This Week’ on March 10, 2024. “We regret this,” the department agreed. ABC is owned by the Walt Disney Company.
The network will also pay $1 million in Trump’s legal costs.
Alejandro Brito, Trump’s lawyer in the case, said: “The president is very pleased with the outcome of this settlement, both in terms of the payment and the statements made by ABC News and George Stephanopoulos.” Ta.
Trump filed the lawsuit in federal court in Miami in March after Stephanopoulos said during an interview with Mace on his Sunday talk show that the anchor admitted the president-elect was “responsible for rape.” Stephanopoulos claimed that he had been defamed.
The congresswoman has spoken publicly about being raped as a teenager, and during the interview, Stephanopoulos asked how she could support Trump given that history.
New York jury finds Trump liable in civil suit for sexual abuse (not rape) and subsequent defamation of author E. Jean Carroll, awarding Trump $88 million in two judgments ordered to pay the above amount. Trump is appealing to them.
The Dec. 13 settlement between ABC and the president-elect was made public on Saturday.
“We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit under the terms of the court filing,” an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement. Stephanopoulos did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s lawyers and a spokesperson for his transition team did not respond to requests for comment.
President Trump has long disparaged “mainstream media” as “fake news.”
The president-elect has also filed civil lawsuits against CBS News, journalist Bob Woodward, and publisher Simon & Schuster, and is appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit he filed against CNN. He previously lost a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
