{"id":137338,"date":"2024-12-15T14:21:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137338"},"modified":"2024-12-15T14:21:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:21:36","slug":"donald-trump-awarded-15m-in-abc-news-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137338","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump awarded $15m in ABC News defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">ABC News has agreed to pay $15m (\u00a312m) to US President-elect Donald Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit after its star anchor falsely said he had been found &#8220;liable for rape&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">George Stephanopoulos made the statements repeatedly during an interview on 10 March this year while challenging a congresswoman about her support for Trump.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A jury in a civil case <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-65531098\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">last year determined<!-- --><\/a> Trump was liable for &#8220;sexual abuse&#8221;, which has a specific definition under New York law.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">As part of Saturday&#8217;s settlement, first reported by Fox News Digital, ABC will also publish a statement expressing its &#8220;regret&#8221; for the statements by Stephanopoulos.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">According to the settlement, ABC News will pay $15m as a charitable contribution to a &#8220;Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff, as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The network also agreed to pay $1m towards Trump&#8217;s legal fees. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Under the settlement, the network will post an editor&#8217;s note to the bottom of its 10 March 2024 online news article about the story.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It will say: &#8220;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&#8217;s This Week on March 10, 2024.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">An ABC News spokesperson said in a statement the company was &#8220;pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In 2023, a New York civil court found Trump sexually abused E Jean Carroll in a dressing room at a department store in 1996. He was also found guilty of defaming the magazine columnist.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Judge Lewis Kaplan said the jury&#8217;s conclusion was that Ms Carroll had failed to prove that Trump raped her &#8220;within the narrow, technical meaning of a particular section of the New York Penal Law&#8221;. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Judge Kaplan noted that the definition of rape was &#8220;far narrower&#8221; than how rape is defined in common modern parlance, in some dictionaries and in criminal statutes elsewhere.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In a separate case, also presided over by the same judge, a jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3m to Ms Carroll for additional defamatory statements.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">During the 10 March broadcast, Stephanopoulos asked South Carolina Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace how she could endorse Trump.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The anchor falsely said &#8220;judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Stephanopoulos repeated the claim 10 times throughout the broadcast.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Ahead of the ruling, a federal magistrate judge had ordered Trump and Stephanopoulos to give sworn evidence at depositions next week.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Trump has also sued CBS, the BBC&#8217;s US broadcast partner, for &#8220;deceptive conduct&#8221; over an interview with Kamala Harris.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In 2023, <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-66349078\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">a judge threw out his defamation lawsuit<!-- --><\/a> against CNN, in which he alleged the network had likened him to Adolf Hitler. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He has also had lawsuits filed against the New York Times and the Washington Post dismissed.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgrw57q4y9do\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News has agreed to pay $15m (\u00a312m) to US President-elect Donald Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit after its star anchor falsely said he had been found &#8220;liable for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=137338\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}