ABC News settles defamation suit with Trump for $15 million
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36% : "The settlement came a day after a federal judge ruled that Trump and Stephanopoulos must sit for a deposition sometime next week.32% : The judge wrote that Trump "raped" her in the broader sense of that word, as people generally understand it, though not as it is narrowly defined by New York state law.
28% : He added that the case would turn on "whether it is substantially true to say a jury (or juries) found (Trump) liable for rape by a jury despite the jury's verdict expressly finding he was not liable for rape.
26% : Trump has a history of filing lawsuits against the news media.
25% : Carroll alleged that Trump raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s and that he defamed her when he denied her claim.
20% : In 2023, a jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll, sufficient to hold him liable for battery, though it did not find that Carroll proved he raped her.
20% : In January, Carroll was awarded an additional $83.3 million in damages for defamatory statements made by Trump that disparaged her and denied her rape allegations.
18% : In the lawsuit filed against ABC News in March, Trump claimed that Stephanopoulos' statements were "false, intentional, malicious and designed to cause harm.
17% : Trump has denied all wrongdoing toward Carroll.
15% : Trump filed the lawsuit in Florida federal court earlier this year, arguing that Stephanopoulos and ABC News defamed him when the anchor said 10 times during a contentious on-air interview with South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace in March that a jury found Trump had "raped" E. Jean Carroll.
13% : A judge concluded in August 2023, when dismissing Trump's countersuit against Carroll, that the claim Trump raped Carroll was "substantially true."
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.