Republicans against Trump - Canadian MP Charlie Angus slams Trump over his proposed tariffs: “Trump is a different kind of animal. He’s playing for the rage algorithm…We’re going to have tough negotiations…but this kind of dismissive, idiotic behavior? I mean, he’s a juvenile”
NBC News - ABC will pay $15 million as part of a legal settlement with President-elect Donald Trump, closing out a dispute that centered on an interview in which Trump alleged anchor George Stephanopoulos defamed him. The money will be transferred to "a Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for" Trump, according to the settlement terms, which were released on Saturday.
The defendants, identified by the settlement as ABC, ABC News and Stephanopoulos, will also pay $1 million to Trump's counsel and add a note to an online article about the interview declaring that they "regret statements" about Trump, according to the settlement...
Trump's lawyers had filed the lawsuit days after Stephanopoulos interviewed Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., on the network, arguing that certain statements made by the anchor were "false and defamatory."
In the initial complaint, Trump’s lawyers alleged that Stephanopoulos “knowingly or recklessly made multiple false and disparaging statements regarding Plaintiff during ABC broadcasts."
Mace, who has publicly discussed being raped as a teenager, was asked during the March interview with Stephanopoulos about Trump's treatment of women and the E. Jean Carroll case.
Stephanopoulos said during the interview that Trump "has been found liable for rape by a jury." Trump, however, was found liable in a civil case for sexually abusing Carroll, not liable for her alleged rape. The nine-member jury in that case checked the box marked "no" when asked whether Carroll had proven “by a preponderance of the evidence” that “Mr. Trump raped Ms. Carroll.”
Newsweek - "People are not going to forget what ABC did," the Republicans Against Trump X, formerly Twitter, account said.
Conservative political scientist Norman Jay Ornstein added: "Add ABC to the basket of cowards in our media."
Democratic attorney Marc Elias wrote: "Knee bent. Ring kissed. Another legacy news outlet chooses obedience."
Reporter Oliver Willis also chimed in, writing on Threads: "This is actually how democracy dies."
Tech reporter Matt Novak said: "Not good for the rest of us when you do this s***, ABC."
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