JONATHAN TURLEY: What ABC's apology to Trump reveals about the media landscape

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : That would have been a welcomed state for Disney, but the actress then found her voice in the most polarizing way, publicly praying, "May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace."
51% : Second, the settlement occurred after an election in which Trump won the trifecta of the White House, Congress and the popular vote.
49% : While Trump was never convicted of rape, Stephanopoulos repeated the claim 10 times in his interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.)What made the settlement interesting is that ABC was previously relying on the statements of the judge in the New York case, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who declared that the charge of rape was "substantially true... as many people commonly understand the word 'rape.'
46% : To the delight of Colbert, who regularly attacked Trump on his show and openly supported both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Stephanopoulos proclaimed that he wouldn't be "cowed out of doing my job because of a threat."
44% : In the meantime, Trump has been running the table on lawfare with the dismissal of the two federal cases and a victory on presidential immunity in the Supreme Court.
37% : The network's iconic show, "The View," has become an unhinged, partisan rave session against Trump, Republicans and the majority of American voters.
27% : The network and the anchor expressed "regret" for stating that Trump was found "liable for rape" in a New York civil case.
25% : The media echo chamber against Trump failed spectacularly in this election.
24% : He added, "Trump sued me because I used the word 'rape,' even though a judge said that's in fact what did happen.
21% : (The jury found that Trump had sexually abused and defamed E. J. Carroll.
20% : The New York civil case faced a highly skeptical court over the grotesque award against Trump and his corporation.
19% : After ABC News and its anchor George Stephanopoulos apologized to Trump last week to settle a defamation lawsuit, many Democrats were apoplectic.
18% : "Stephanopoulos played up his defiance of Trump with CBS' late-night host Stephen Colbert.
16% : Marc Elias, the controversial lawyer involved in the funding of the infamous Steele dossier by the Clinton campaign, denounced ABC News for bending a knee to Trump.

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