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ABC News, Stephanopoulos Settle Defamation Lawsuit with Trump, Pay $15 Million, Apologize

ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos agreed to settle a defamation lawsuit that President-elect Donald Trump had filed and will pay Trump $15 million, attorneys fees, and issue a public apology.

The Hill reported that the news outlet and Stephanopoulos agreed to issue a “public apology” and to provide $15 million that would go towards Trump’s “future presidential library.”

The outlet noted that “under the settlement agreement,” along with “$15 million in escrow” to go towards Trump’s future library, ABC News “agreed to pay $1 million in attorney’s fees and add an editors’ note to the bottom of the relevant article.”

ABC must also issue a statement of regret for their slander of the incoming president, which occurred during the election cycle.

As Breitbart News’s Wendell Husebo previously reported, in March, Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News and Stephanopoulos. Trump claimed that his “reputation was besmirched” by Stephanopoulos claiming during an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) that two juries had found Trump “liable for rape” in the case against E. Jean Carroll.

Settling the suit allowed Stephanopoulos to avoid a 4 hour deposition along with releasing lots and lots of emails, which would expose just how bad ABC News is. That they are no longer a news outlet, but, an activist outlet and an arm of the Democratic Party, that they are not there to protect the People from government, per the entire reason for their inclusion in the 1st Amendment. Free Speech would have covered it.

This is huge – total victory for Trump. Shame on George Stephanopoulos & ABC, who were forced to settle after the judge ordered George to sit for a deposition. They couldn’t have their star further embarrassed under oath. Good for Trump for fighting back. https://t.co/73T4sdQFX1

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) December 14, 2024

CNN had to end their article with a bit of whining

Trump has a history of filing lawsuits against the news media. In late October, he filed a lawsuit against CBS, demanding $10 billion in damages over the network’s “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. His legal counsel claimed the interview with Harris and the associated programming were “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference” intended to “mislead the public and attempt to tip the scales” of the presidential election in her favor.

If the media is going to lie, to go off the reservation, to think they are immune from being held accountable, think again.