ABC News and its news anchor should also apologize for the comments that were the subject of the lawsuit.
The US news channel ABC News is to pay a 15 million dollar compensation for the future president of the country Donald Trump’s in a defamation lawsuit, according to court documents.
The lawsuit was started by a news anchor George Stephanopoulos about the comments in the March television broadcast. While interviewing a Republican representative of Congress Nancy Macea the news anchor said that Trump would have been found guilty of rape. Trump was a journalist-author found guilty in 2023 by E. Jean Carroll In a lawsuit filed in New York for sexual abuse.
The case was settled a day after the judge Lisette M. Reid had requested statements from both Trump and Stephanopoulos.
Under the terms of the settlement reached, ABC News must make a $15 million donation to a fund dedicated to a library that houses documents related to Trump’s presidency.
ABC News and Stephanopoulos should also apologize for their comments. In addition, the news channel must pay one million dollars in legal fees.
Source: AFP, AP