ABC News to pay $15 million to settle Trump's defamation suit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : "U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette M. Reid on Friday ordered Trump and Stephanopoulos to sit for depositions next week ahead of the Dec. 24 deadline for the defendants to file a motion for summary judgment to avoid a trial.
30% : After playing a clip of Mace discussing being a victim of rape, Stephanopoulos asked her, "How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?""You've endorsed Donald Trump for president.
22% : Carroll alleged that Trump raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s.
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.
19% : "In the lawsuit filed against ABC News, Trump claimed that Stephanopoulos' statements were "false, intentional, malicious and designed to cause harm.
17% : Trump has denied all wrongdoing toward Carroll.
13% : After the federal jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse, Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in a later ruling that just because Carroll failed to prove rape "within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump 'raped' her as many people commonly understand the word 'rape.'
8% : "During an interview with the South Carolina House member, the anchor said 10 times Trump was found "liable for rape" although a jury actually determined Trump was liable for "sexual abuse," which is different under New York law.
8% : Trump has sued CBS, demanding $10 billion in damages over the network's 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

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