ABC Agrees To Give $15 Million to Trump's Presidential Library To Settle Defamation Lawsuit

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.
40% : The settlement agreement was signed Friday, the same day a Florida federal judge ordered Trump and Mr. Stephanopoulos to sit for separate depositions in the case next week.
40% : In the first of the lawsuits to go to trial, Trump was found liable last year of sexually abusing and defaming Ms. Carroll.
39% : 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 Ms. 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 Ms. Carroll $83.3 million.
34% : Ms. 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.
31% : Trump denied her claim, saying he didn't know Ms. Carroll and never ran into her at the store.
29% : Trump sued ABC and Mr. 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 Ms. Carroll's two civil lawsuits against Trump.
28% : "Judge 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.
24% : The network will also pay $1 million in legal fees to the law firm of Trump's attorney.ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward President-elect Trump's presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
20% : During a live "This Week" interview with Congressswoman Nancy Mace, Mr. Stephanopoulos wrongly claimed that Trump had been "found liable for rape" and "defaming the victim of that rape.
19% : Testifying in April 2023, Ms. Carroll told jurors: "I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn't happen.
13% : After Trump lashed out, calling Ms. 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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