WASHINGTON: ABC Information has agreed to offer US$15 million to Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over feedback that anchor George Stephanopoulos made on air involving the civil case introduced towards the US president-elect by author E. Jean Carroll, a court docket doc filed on Saturday (Dec 14) confirmed.
The lawsuit, filed on Mar 19 in a US district court docket in douthern Florida, accused Stephanopoulos of creating the statements with malice and a disregard for the reality. It mentioned the statements have been distributed extensively to 3rd events and repeated.
“We’re happy that the events have reached an settlement to dismiss the lawsuit on the phrases within the court docket submitting,” an ABC Information spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
The lawsuit cites a Mar 10 interview with US Consultant Nancy Mace, a Republican who has spoken publicly about being raped as a youngster.
Through the interview, Stephanopoulos mentioned Trump was discovered responsible for rape and requested her how she may endorse the candidate.
In line with the settlement, ABC Information should publish by Sunday an announcement on the backside of a Mar 10 on-line article that accompanied the interview.
“ABC Information and George Stephanopoulos remorse statements concerning President Donald J. Trump made throughout an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on Mar 10, 2024,” the assertion should say, in keeping with the court docket doc.
The broadcaster may even pay an addition US$1 million in legal professional charges.
The settlement marks the most recent victory in Trump’s string of authorized fortune since successful the Nov 5 presidential election.
Final month, a US appeals court docket granted the dismissal of charges for Trump’s alleged mishandling of categorised paperwork upon exiting the White Home.
US Particular Counsel Jack Smith additionally paused a second federal case concerning Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election outcomes, though Trump faces racketeering costs over the identical challenge in a case out of Georgia.
And for Trump’s Might conviction within the hush cash case – the one prison costs towards him to go to trial – Decide Juan Merchan has indefinitely postponed sentencing.
