Another L For The Fake News! ABC Settles Trump Defamation Lawsuit For $15 Million & A Public Apology

Posted • December 15, 2024: The corporate media just can't stop covering themselves in journalistic glory. Recently Leslie Stahl said she fears that the media is hobbled and nearly dead but doesn't realize why that demise will be completely self-inflicted. Today brings with it yet another example. Not long ago it was looking like ABC News, George Stephanopoulos and Donald Trump would be heading to court and facing off over the President Elect's defamation lawsuit. Not anymore: Holy crap, Trump keeps winning. ABC News apologizes to Trump and pays him $15 million to settle his defamation case. ABC News has to pay President Trump $15M and $1M in attorney fees as a settlement to the defamation lawsuit he brought after George Stephanopoulos lied by saying that Trump was "found liable for rape." ABC and George Stephanopoulos also must apologize as part of the settlement.

Their apology ➡️ "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." -- I’m glad we’re starting to hold the legacy media accountable when they lie with malice. Another big L for the fake news media! They never seem to learn any lessons though. This happened during an interview on ABC with Rep. Nancy Mace when host George Stephanopoulos used the word "rape" up to ten times to allege what Trump had been found liable for (you can watch the video in our previous story), and the President Elect's lawyers were on top of it after that. The apology should have to be read at the top of every ABC News program on a weekday. (…)

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Fox News: George Stephanopoulos and ABC apologize to Trump, are forced to pay $15 million to settle defamation suit
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