Thursday, 10 July 2025

ABC News Forced To Pay $15 Million For Calling Trump A Rapist


ABC News Forced To Pay $15 Million For Calling Trump A Rapist

They couldn’t risk a deposition so settled

ABC News has been forced to pay $15 million as a settlement, with presenter George Stephanopoulos having to issue a public apology after President Trump filed a defamation suit for comments asserting he was found “liable for rape.”

During a March interview with Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, Stephanopoulos said “Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape,” in remarks alluding to the legal victory by Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll.

Stephanopoulos then repeated the claim ten times, despite the fact that a jury never made this distinct determination.

Stephanopoulos initially pushed back, telling Stephen Colbert that he wouldn’t be “cowed out of doing my job because of a threat,” and asserting “Trump sued me because I used the word ‘rape,’ even though a judge said that’s in fact what did happen. We filed a motion to dismiss.”

Fox News reports that the settlement was agreed upon after US Magistrate Judge Lisette M. Reid ordered Trump and Stephanopoulos to attend a deposition hearing that was scheduled for next week ahead of the Dec. 24 deadline for the defendants to file a motion for summary judgment, in order to avoid a trial.

In a statement, the network noted “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024.”

The money will be donated to “a Presidential foundation and museum” established by the president-elect.

Some are speculating that ABC News settled because they didn’t want Stephanopoulos’ emails and communications exposed and made public.

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