ABC, Stephanopoulos Settle Trump Suit Over 'Rape' for $15M

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Court documents filed Saturday show that the money will go to a future presidential library for Trump, the Hill reports.
33% : The deal allows Trump and Stephanopoulos to avoid sitting for depositions a court had ordered for next week.
30% : Trump is appealing rulings to pay Carroll nearly $90 million in her defamation cases against him, per the AP.
29% : In an interview in March of Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, Stephanopoulos said 10 times that the jury had decided Trump "raped" the writer, per CNN.
27% : In return, Trump, who had sought unspecified damages, agreed to drop the suit and waive any legal claims involving the interview.
26% : Trump failed in a defamation claim against Carroll for using the word "rape" outside of court when a judge said that her account was substantially true and that there's only a minimal difference between "rape" and "sexual abuse," per the Hill.
19% : In a civil case, a jury found that, under New York law, Trump sexually abused her.
18% : Trump argued in a lawsuit filed in Florida federal court that the anchor's statements constituted defamation.
15% : E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a department store in the 1990s.
10% : ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos have agreed to issue a public statement of regret and pay $15 million to end a defamation suit by President-elect Trump for saying on the air that a New York jury found Trump "liable for rape."

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