ABC News To Pay $15M To Settle Trump’s “Rape” Suit

The Associated Press reports:

ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

According to settlement documents made public Saturday, ABC will also post a note on its website expressing regret over the claim in a March 10 segment on Stephanopoulos’ “This Week” program and pay $1 million in legal fees to Trump’s lawyer.

Trump sued Stephanopoulos and ABC for defamation days after the anchor claimed during an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., that Trump had been “found liable for rape,” which misstated the verdicts in Carroll’s two lawsuits against him.

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NEW: Just one day after Trump was ordered to sit for a deposition in a defamation case against ABC and George Stephanopoulos, ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library. The settlement resolves a lawsuit over Stephanopoulos’ on-air claim… pic.twitter.com/lvRrBZXeXE

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