ABC News, George Stephanopoulos agree to apologize to Trump, pay $15M in defamation case settlement

Ha. So this happened today, ABC News, and George Stephanopoulos agree to apologize to Trump, pay $15M in defamation case settlement.

I stitched together 2 videos with article screenshots in between. The 2nd video at the end has Rep Nancy Mace reaction to the ABC News George Stephanopoulos interview earlier this year.

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CNN 12/14/24: ABC News will pay $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” in a settlement reached with President-elect Donald Trump in his defamation suit against the network and anchor George Stephanopoulos.

The settlement, which was filed publicly Saturday, reveals the network will also pay $1 million in Trump’s attorneys’ fees and will issue an apology.

Trump filed the lawsuit in Florida federal court earlier this year, arguing that Stephanopoulos and ABC News defamed him when the anchor said 10 times during a contentious on-air interview with South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace in March that a jury found Trump had “raped” E. Jean Carroll.

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.