Judge declines to dismiss Trump defamation lawsuit against ABC News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump heralded the ruling as a "big win".
47% : Trump changed his residency status to Florida after leaving office in 2021, living in his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.
37% : The disputed remark concerned the civil cases that had been brought against Trump in New York by the writer and former Elle magazine advice columnist E Jean Carroll.
35% : In the sexual assault case, a jury found in May last year in New York that Trump had "sexually abused" her but not that he had "raped" her.
28% : Case, brought after host George Stephanopoulos said Trump had been 'found liable for rape', allowed to proceedA federal judge in Miami has denied a motion to dismiss Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against the ABC News TV network and one of its star journalists, George Stephanopoulos, concerning remarks made by the anchor in March that the former president had been "found liable for rape".
28% : In a later legal challenge, the federal judge presiding over the Carroll sexual assault case, Lewis Kaplan, concluded that the jury's finding that she had failed to prove Trump had raped her under New York's definition did not mean she failed to prove "rape" as many people understood it.
23% : Trump denied the allegations and made critical comments about Carroll, which she then challenged in a defamation lawsuit against him.
20% : She said that a "reasonable jury" could conclude that Trump had been defamed, and, as a result, "dismissal is inappropriate".
18% : In 2019 she accused Trump, who was then in the White House, of sexually assaulting and raping her in an encounter in the 1990s.
17% : He said the jury's verdict had established that Trump "raped" Carroll, "albeit digitally rather than with his penis".ABC News and Stephanopoulos drew on Kaplan's comments to argue that Trump's claims in his defamation case against them had already been litigated, and that Stephanopoulos's comments were "substantially true".
16% : Trump lodged his defamation lawsuit nine days later.

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