President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the NCAA faculty soccer recreation between Military and Navy at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md., on Saturday.
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NEW YORK — ABC Information has agreed to pay $15 million towards Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been discovered civilly chargeable for raping author E. Jean Carroll.
In line with settlement paperwork made public Saturday, ABC may also put up a observe on its web site expressing remorse over the declare in a March 10 phase on Stephanopoulos’ This Week program and pay $1 million in authorized charges to Trump’s lawyer.
In an announcement, ABC Information stated: “We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing.”
Trump sued Stephanopoulos and ABC for defamation days after the anchor claimed throughout an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., that Trump had been “found liable for rape,” which misstated the verdicts in Carroll’s two lawsuits towards him.
Final 12 months, Trump was discovered chargeable for sexually assaulting and defaming Carroll and was ordered to pay her $5 million. In January, he was discovered liable on extra defamation claims and ordered to pay Carroll $83.3 million. Trump is interesting each verdicts.
Neither verdict concerned a discovering of rape as outlined underneath New York legislation.
The choose in each instances, Lewis Kaplan, has stated that the jury’s conclusion was that Carroll had did not show that Trump raped her “within the narrow, technical meaning of a particular section of the New York Penal Law.”
Kaplan famous that the definition of rape was “far narrower” than how rape is outlined in frequent fashionable parlance, in some dictionaries, in some federal and state legal statutes and elsewhere.
The choose stated the decision didn’t imply that Carroll “failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed … the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”
