ABC News is preparing to pay the Trump Library $15 million to settle libel charges
ABC News has it Agree donated 15 million USD to the President-elect Donald Trumpfoundation and his future presidential museum, and paid an additional $1 million in legal fees to settle a defamation lawsuit he brought against the network and its lead host. George Stephanopoulos earlier this year.
“We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit in accordance with the terms of the court filing,” an ABC News spokesperson said. Jeannie Kedas speak.
Trump alleges that the network and Stephanopoulos, the former White House communications director, were under him Bill Clinton and the “This Week” host defamed him in March of this year.
The lawsuit stems from one interview Stephanopoulos proceeds with Rep Nancy Macea Republican from South Carolina, about another defamation case. He asked Mace, who was pronounce about being a victim of rape as a teenager, how she could endorse the president after he was “found responsible for rape by a jury.” The anchor mentioned tortuous legal battle between Trump and the writer E. Jean Carrollwho has hold for years Trump raped her in a New York City department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. A jury sided with Carroll and ordered the former president to pay her about $90 million .
The issue at hand, Trump alleges, is that in that case, he was convicted of sexually abusing and defaming Carroll — but not of “rape.” Language differences, as a judge in the case, Lewis Kaplanhas been corroborated multiple times, has less to do with what goes on in that locker room and more to do with New York’s legal restrictions when it comes to sexual violence.
At the time of that trial, New York law held that someone could only be convicted of rape if the penis penetrated the vagina. In Carroll’s testimony and in an earlier recounting of the events, she said that Trump used both his fingers and his penis to attack her.
“He pulled down my tights and reached out – his fingers thrust into my vagina, extremely painful, extremely painful. It was a horrible feeling because he curled, he put his hand inside me and curled his finger. As I sit here today, I can still feel it,” Carroll witnessadding, “Then he inserted his penis.”
Trump has repeatedly denied this happened, saying: “She said I did something to her that never happened. Nothing. I don’t know anything about this crazy job” and “she’s not my type”.
The jury concluded, in Kaplan’s decision, that Trump “intentionally and with his fingers penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina, causing immediate pain and lasting mental and psychological harm.” but did not make an affirmative judgment as to whether he used his penis. . In short, because New York requires penile penetration, Trump was convicted of sexual abuse, not rape.
However, Kaplan speak that just because the jury continues to allege sexual abuse “doesn’t mean [Carroll] did not prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people often understand the word ‘rape’.”
