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ABC will pay $15 million in damages to end US President-elect Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit over comments made on-air by a presenter. The latter had claimed that Trump was “responsible for rape”.
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December 15, 2024 – 00:37
(Keystone-ATS) The Republican billionaire was indeed convicted in the trial linked to the E. Jean Carroll affair, in 2023, but for sexual assault. He was also ordered to pay the journalist and writer $85 million for defamation, against the backdrop of these rape accusations in the 1990s.
According to court documents made public on Saturday, the out-of-court transaction between the American television channel and Donald Trump provides for this envelope of 15 million to be paid to a fund intended to finance “a foundation and a presidential museum” dedicated to the Republican billionaire.
“Small and angry man”
The latter had filed a complaint against ABC and its star journalist George Stephanopoulos. The agreement also stipulates that the channel and Mr. Stephanopoulos must make a public apology, specifying that they “regret the statements” about Donald Trump, and pay his legal costs to the tune of one million dollars.
Former advisor to Bill Clinton and veteran political journalist, George Stephanopoulos is a highly effective interviewer and a mainstay of ABC News. He interviewed former American President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin and was chosen in July for an interview with current American President Joe Biden, at a time when the intellectual acuity of the presidential candidate then to a second term were seriously in doubt.
Donald Trump derogatorily nicknamed him “Slopadopoulos,” calling him a “small, irritated man” and “the lowest, most malicious interviewer there is.”
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