by Cullen McCue at Trending Politics
ABC News and network host George Stephanopoulos have reached a with President-elect Donald Trump to settle his defamation lawsuit against them. The network has agreed to pay $15 million and will issue a formal apology over inaccurate reporting.
According to the settlement, which was filed publicly on Saturday, ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a “presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for the Plaintiff.”
The network has also been ordered to pay an additional $1 million to cover the president-elect’s legal fees.
Trump filed the lawsuit in Florida federal court earlier this year, arguing that Stephanopoulos and the network defamed him during a contentious interview with U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). Over the course of the March interview, the anchor repeated the false claim that a jury found Trump guilty of “rape” in the E. Jean Carroll case…
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