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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump is appealing both verdicts.
51% : He lied and shattered my reputation, and I'm here to try and get my life back.
46% : Trump, Stephanopoulos and ABC executives signed the settlement agreement on Friday.
40% : Carroll, a former advice columnist, went public in a 2019 memoir with her allegation that Trump raped her in the mid-1990s at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury Manhattan department store across the street from Trump Tower, after they crossed paths at an entrance.
38% : In upholding the $5 million judgment in the first trial, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that the unanimous verdict was almost entirely in favor of Carroll, except that the jury concluded she had failed to prove that Trump raped her "within the narrow, technical meaning of a particular section of the New York Penal Law.
37% : In January, at a second trial in federal court in Manhattan, Trump was found liable on additional defamation claims and ordered to pay Carroll $83.3 million.
34% : In the first of the lawsuits to go to trial, Trump was found liable last year of sexually assaulting and defaming Carroll.
33% : Trump denied her claim, saying he didn't know Carroll and never ran into her at the store.
29% : Trump sued ABC and Stephanopoulos in federal court in Miami days after the network aired the segment, in which the longtime "Good Morning America" anchor and "This Week" host repeatedly misstated the verdicts in Carroll's two civil lawsuits against Trump.
29% : "Kaplan, who presided over both of Carroll's lawsuits against Trump, said the definition of rape in the state code was "far narrower" than how rape is defined in common modern parlance, in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes and elsewhere.
19% : During a live "This Week" interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., Stephanopoulos wrongly claimed that Trump had been "found liable for rape" and "defaming the victim of that rape.
18% : Testifying in April 2023, Carroll told jurors: "I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn't happen.
12% : After Trump lashed out, calling Carroll a "nut job" who invented "a fraudulent and false story" to sell her memoir, she sued him for unspecified monetary damages and sought a retraction of what she said were Trump's defamatory denials.

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