MIC DROP: Megyn Kelly Dismantled George Stephanopoulos MONTHS Before ABC News' Trump Settlement

Posted • December 15, 2024: This was an expensive week for ABC News after it was learned on Saturday that the network had decided to settle a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump. As it turned out, ABC host George Stephanopoulos, in an apparent rush to please anti-Trump viewers everywhere, got caught in his own "journalism" trap during an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, resulting in a big defamation settlement: “The settlement was publicly filed on Saturday, revealing that the two parties have come to an agreement and avoided a costly trial. According to the settlement, ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to 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." Additionally, the network will pay $1 million in Trump's attorney fees.”

“Stephanopoulos and ABC News will issue statements of "regret" as an editor's note at the bottom of a March 10, 2024, online article, about comments made earlier this year that prompted Trump to file a defamation lawsuit.” -- Megyn Kelly called out the fainting couch-level hyperventilating from Stephanopoulos earlier this year on her podcast, and it's clear by this that ABC's lawyers decided it was best to just try and write a check, issue as low-key an apology as possible, and move on. Here's Kelly obliterating Stephanopoulos and everything he's stood for in the past: Megyn Kelly tearing George Stephanopoulos to shreds. Today it’s costing ABC 15 Million and he has to apologize. OUCH! It's still amazing that Stephanopoulos is such a proven partisan but is presented by a network as a "journalist." Amazing, but not surprising. A beautiful and well deserved take down of George Stephanopoulos. It was. (…)

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