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ABC News, The $15 million settlement between George Stephanopoulos and President-elect Trump was welcomed by those with basic objectivity and common sense, but the As this has become commonplace, the left has once again lost its sense of unity.
This settlement was something ABC News had to hammer out. Because the evidence against them was clear on video. Stephanopoulos is billed as a newscaster, but his demeanor and tone are more akin to a Democratic operative during the Clinton administration or a pit bull, he repeated. 10 In a March interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R.S.C., President Trump was found responsible for rape in a civil suit filed by E. Jean Carroll in a New York courtroom earlier this year. A false claim has been revealed.
George Stephanopoulos and ABC apologize to President Trump, agree to pay $15 million to settle defamation lawsuit
Stephanopoulos also claimed that Trump was convicted of defaming Carroll.
Two problems: That wasn’t the jury’s decision.
“How do you reconcile your support for Donald Trump with the testimony you just saw?” Stephanopoulos asked Mace piously on ABC’s “This Week.” March 10th.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos (Getty Images)
“You supported Donald Trump as a presidential candidate. A judge and two juries found him guilty of rape and defamation of rape victims,” he also declared. . Mace was questioned about her support for being sexually assaulted when she was 16, and Stephanopoulos tried to shame her and paint her as a hypocrite.
President Trump immediately sued ABC and the anchor for defamation. The lawsuit says the network on Saturday apologized and paid $15 million to Trump’s “Presidential Foundation and Museum established by or for Plaintiffs, as established by past Presidents of the United States.” It was underway when they made a surprising announcement. ”
The network will also pay about $1 million in Trump’s legal costs.
The victory of the 45th, and soon to be 47th president, adds to an incredible post-election run in the legal field. In the past 40 days, Special Counsel Jack Smith has dropped two federal cases against Trump. In Georgia, the RICO lawsuit filed by Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis continues to fail, and Willis has now been ordered by a Georgia judge to turn over any communications she may have had with Smith. Many legal analysts say the case is already in serious jeopardy. And in New York, Judge Juan Marchan granted a request by Trump’s lawyers to drop all charges from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case and postponed the sentencing date until after he leaves office. The case will likely be dismissed on appeal long before then.
Conservative and moderate commentators criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for prosecuting Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who was charged in 2023 with the death of homeless man Jordan Neely. (Spencer Pratt/Getty Images)
On the left, a meltdown continued over the settlement.
“Wow. It feels like another mainstream news organization has bent its knee,” Eric Duggans, a media analyst for taxpayer-funded NPR, wrote about X.
“The knee has been bent. The ring has been kissed. Yet another traditional news organization has chosen to submit,” said Marc Elias, a Democratic lawyer who helped promote the discredited Steele dossier.
Bill Kristol tried to link Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, saying, “I feel like the ABC-Trump rapprochement could be a turning point in the Orbánization of our politics. It’s not going to happen.” I hope so,” he commented with an X.
Rape victim Rep. Nancy Mace says she felt personally attacked by ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos. (Fox News)
ABC News likely settled here because, in addition to being clearly wrong in the court’s decision, they feared what would be revealed during discovery. Remember, the network’s news division is helmed by Dana Walden, a longtime close friend of Vice President Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff. Walden introduced the pair about 10 years ago.
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ABC also received deserved criticism for being overwhelmingly biased in the first and only presidential debate between Harris and Trump, with hosts David Muir and Lindsey Davis giving five votes against Trump. He fact-checked her twice and never did the same for Harris, even though he had ample opportunity to do so. And of the first 100 stories ABC News did about Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate, all 100 were positive, according to the Media Research Center.
Trump is having the best six weeks of his life. Few believed he would win the popular vote. He swept every battleground state and proved many pollsters and forecasters wrong. Also. Republicans took back the Senate and took control of the House.
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Opinion polls show a majority of voters support his transition. And for the first time, the average RealClearPolitics poll shows that more voters view Trump favorably than unfavorably. Earned 35 points or more in 2016 underwater Between his favorable and unfavorable numbers.
There is no doubt that the media will be more careful with their words and rhetoric in the future.
And maybe, just maybe, they’ll do less activism and more journalism during Trump: The Sequel.
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