Stephanie Ruhle Fails To Recognize What The 'Chilling Effect' Of Trump's Win Over ABC News Really Is

Posted • December 20, 2024: What a segment this was on The Daily Beast Podcast with Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee. MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle discussed President-elect Donald J. Trump's legal win over ABC News. The network must pay Trump $15 million which will all go to the building of the future library for the 45th and 47th president of the United States. They also must issue an apology over a testy exchange between ABC News host George Stephanopoulos and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), a survivor of sexual assault, where the former Clinton operative said Trump was found liable for rape regarding the legal action filed by E. Jean Carroll. https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1868034795760226304/vid/avc1/1280x720/6apHaKVL7Moer7Zm.mp4 -- Reportedly, producers for ABC’s This Week told Stephanopoulos not to use the word “rape,” which he ignored. The longtime host is reportedly “apoplectic” and “humiliated” over the settlement.

Yet, it’s also called accountability since what George said was wrong. Ruhle alluded to the “chilling effect” this will have on the media covering the second Trump presidency: Stephanie Ruhle warns that the ABC defamation settlement has shown the media that *now* they need to be accurate when reporting news about Trump: Stephanie Ruhle: "For the media environment for the rest of the world, when they see a settlement like this, there is a chilling effect, right? Because what happens immediately after? Well, you see Donald Trump say, I'm going to sue the Des Moines Register. I'm going to sue the pollster [J Ann Selzer] who put out a poll just before the election that said women in Iowa are going to vote for Kamala Harris. And you're saying I want to accurately cover this administration like all of us are going to, it's a scary time. So for all of us, this is a warning. You better have your T's crossed. You better have your eyes dotted, which I actually think is a positive because we need to do that. But yeah, there's definitely a chilling effect."

The 'chilling effect' Stephanie Ruhle referred to is also known as 'consequences'. In other words, you cannot lie at will anymore. The fact that she claims this industry will cover this second Trump administration honestly and accurately is also a crock. There is no chilling effect here, lady. Stop lying, and you won’t get sued. As for the Ann Selzer poll, that survey was facially untrue and dropped days before Election Day in what arguably was a gross attempt to drop a suppression poll into the news cycle. The problem was multi-layered. First, we’re not morons; Iowa was never in play for Kamala Harris. The state was Trump+18 in June; by late October-early November, it was Harris +3. Nope. Sorry, Ann. If it were true, we would’ve seen the trends shift in Iowa and across the Rust Belt. We didn’t because the poll was a lie. Trump won Iowa by 14 points. (…)

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