Accountability Arrives: CNN's Jake Tapper Upset ABC News Held Responsible For On-Air Trump Lie

Posted • December 17, 2024: CNN’s Jake Tapper, like most of the legacy media, is fuming a ‘journalist’ is being held responsible for a lie he told to the American people. President-Elect Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News for a lie said on-air by George Stephanopoulos. It resulted in a $15 million settlement which is going to Trump’s presidential library. ABC News and Stephanopoulos being held accountable for that falsehood is sending shockwaves through the dying legacy media. Here’s Jake Tapper’s reaction. 🚨 A glum Jake Tapper is upset about the Trump $15M settlement in lawsuit against ABC, and his suing other media outlets: “This is wildly ridiculous."

Today, Trump mentioned The Des Moines Register, 60 Minutes, Bob Woodward and Russiagate reporters. Legacy media is finally starting to be held accountable, and that makes Tapper nervous. Tapper is also involved in a lawsuit brought against CNN by a Navy veteran whom Tapper smeared with false claims about the veteran’s work extracting people from Afghanistan. (…)

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