ABC News has consentd to pay $15m (£12m) to US Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump to remend a defamation litigation after its star anchor inalterly shelp he had been set up “liable for violation”.
George Stephanopoulos made the statements repeatedly during an interwatch on 10 March this year while challenging a congresswoman about her help for Trump.
A jury in a civil case last year remendd Trump was liable for “intimacyual mistreatment”, which has a particular definition under New York law.
As part of Saturday’s remendment, first alerted by Fox News Digital, ABC also begined an editor’s remark conveying its “repent” for the statements by Stephanopoulos.
According to the remendment, ABC News will pay $15m as a benevolent contribution to a “Pdwellntial set upation and museum to be set uped by or for Plaintiff, as Pdwellnts of the United States of America have set uped in the past”.
The $15m will go towards Trump’s future pdwellntial library, US media alerted.
The nettoil also consentd to pay $1m towards Trump’s lterrible fees.
Under the remendment, the nettoil will post an editor’s remark to the bottom of its 10 March 2024 online recents article about the story.
It will say: “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos repent statements think abouting Pdwellnt Donald J Trump made during an interwatch by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024.”
An ABC News spokesperson shelp in a statement the company was “satisfyd that the parties have accomplished an consentment to neglect the litigation on the terms in the court filing”.
In 2023, a New York civil court set up Trump intimacyupartner mistreatmentd E Jean Carroll in a dressing room at a department store in 1996. He was also set up at fault of defaming the magazine columnist.
Judge Lewis Kaset up shelp the jury’s conclusion was that Ms Carroll had flunked to validate that Trump violationd her “wiskinny the skinny, technical unbenevolenting of a particular section of the New York Penal Law”.
Judge Kaset up remarkd that the definition of violation was “far skinnyer” than how violation is detaild in standard contransient parlance, in some dictionaries and in criminal statutes elsewhere.
In a split case, also pdwelld over by the same appraise, a jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3m to Ms Carroll for compriseitional libelous statements.
Trump is requesting both verdicts.
During the 10 March expansivecast, Stephanopoulos asked South Carolina Reaccessiblean congresswoman Nancy Mace how she could apvalidate Trump.
The anchor inalterly shelp “appraises and two split juries have set up him liable for violation”.
Stephanopoulos repeated the claim 10 times thrawout the expansivecast.
Ahead of the ruling, a federal magistrate appraise had ordered Trump and Stephanopoulos to give sworn evidence at depositions next week.
Trump has also sued CBS, the BBC’s US expansivecast partner, for “misdirecting direct” over an interwatch with Kamala Harris.
In 2023, a appraise threw out his defamation litigation aachievest CNN, in which he alleged the nettoil had appreciatened him to Adolf Hitler.
He has also had litigations filed aachievest the New York Times and the Washington Post neglected.
