ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit. The network will pay $15 million to a charity and will issue an apology.
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All media leadership needs to crash and burn. ABC is issuing an “apology” to appease a man adjudicated to have inserted his fingers into a woman’s vagina against her will. Most states call that rape, but NY calls it sexual assault since it wasn’t his penis inserted. But, apologize to the abuser
Probably not. After all, he wants them to pay the money. It's hard to pay your debts if you're dead. I don't know if anyone sells insurance to cover foot in mouth disease.
ABC and Stephanopoulos are cowards for bending knee to Trump. However as we saw with Faux News, all corporations are cowards when it comes to measuring potential trial risk against quick payoff when it comes to legal battles.
This is the new normal. Teach your children well. Go ahead, teach them to lie, it's now ok. Too bad there's not a list, say 10 things, that it's not ok to do.
The media betrayed the people, as always, bowing to the gods of profit. What did the mortals expect? When your business thrives on money over truth, the result is inevitable. CNN, ABC, MSNBC, FOX—they'll always choose profits over integrity. And that is their true sin.
Obeying in Advance. Everyone is lining up to kiss the ring. NBC, ABC, and all the alphabet letters are lining up to the kiss the orange orangutan ring.
ABC is worthless. Trump and his ilk all need to challenged every time. Even if that means a large corporation with deep pockets defends one of their reporters in court. Did they do this for “access”? This is just BS.
Now we see that ABC News sucks almost as much as CNN. Not quite, but close. CNN still sucks as the worst knee bending sycophant to the tyrant.
The media as a whole is shaping up to be quite the cowards and tools of the elite. Your owners can now fully and freely shout "sieg heil" to Herr Trump
Stephanipos is doing well enough he should absolutely give the station his resignation. I wouldn’t apologize. When truth behind them should not apologize.
This is such bullshit! He was found guilty of sexual assault and then smeared her name and had her living in fear for decades. For the first time in my 50+ years on this planet, I feel like women are losing the battle. I'm not giving up, but I can't believe ANY woman voted for this.
Another cave by the media. They need to force him to sit through deposition after deposition. File appeal after appeal and run out the clock until the mid terms.
If the resistance doesn’t learn how to go on offense, this country is doomed.
Let me guess it will be a charity owned by Trump, or a charity that either he or his family has access to the funds? This guy just keeps winning doesn’t he?
It's not a charity - it's his BS library that will never be built, you just put 15M in his bank account in the hopes he'll layoff ABC in the future - what a disgrace.
What exactly did he say that could possibly damage Trumps reputation? That he’s a facist, rapist, fraud, adulterer, failure, racist? I’m struggling to understand what it could be.
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Rumor is he took a dump in his diaper at the Cathedral de Norte Dame and everyone around him couldn’t stand the stench. You should see the video, we have been laughing all week with it! 😝😝
#VonShitzInPants
The majority of mainstream media has bowed to SHITLER, not out of legal fear, but because their greed compels them to accept a tyrant dictator rather than spend money on lawyers to challenge and defeat the criminal clown.
#NBC #CNN #NBCUniversal #MSNBC #FOXNEWS #ABC
Except that it wouldn't be defamation. It's reasonable for someone to come to the conclusion George came to based on the evidence. This is just another example of ABC and the lame stream media handing a BS win to Trump because they're spineless corporate bootlickers.
No doubt Trump world threatened ABC/Disney along the lines of nice TV networks you have there. Hope nothing happens to them. Trump was going to be deposed next week. Connect the dots.
I’ll start with I DO NOT LIKE ABC news (or the lack thereof)
But they had to do this. Dumbopopolass used the wrong term. No way ABC could win case. Choice was to fight and keep it in news 🔄 till they lost (and spend lots 💸 to lawyers, and keeping carrot top in news. Or 💰off the apprentice. My 2🪙
#shameful capitulation;
#DonaldTrumpIsARapist ...the Judge ruled that Trump did Rape E.Jean Carroll...
And the Judge on the ABC case had just ordered Trump to appear for his 4hr Deposition ;
STOP giving away #Justice to #LifeLongCriminalTrump
I wish they hadn't settled. I thought Trump would have to prove he'd been harmed to prevail, and his reputation is solidly so bad, it would be difficult to harm it further.
ABC=Always Be Cowards.
You don’t even know to be ashamed of yourselves for rolling over like that, and you should be. Shame on you, ABC News, and good luck being a trusted news source anytime soon.
LITIGOCRACY: A system of governance whereby the rich achieve political goals by filing lawsuits against less affluent opponents, causing financial ruin. The system affords government a legal means of eradicating free speech and dissent in a Constitutional Democracy.
How about making tRump apologize for sexually assaulting JC? This is some craven stuff on the part of the network. Settling so as not to go to court against the Mango Mussolini.
The network actually lost the case!! I thought George had him by his balls.. how did this happen. And what was repeated about him raping Carrol wasn’t she awarded 80M is a defamation she filed? What the fuck is going on? He will gloat about it in all of his interviews… evil seems to be winning!
If ABC settling with Trump was only done to keep the ABC away from a guilty verdict, does that mean Trump settling the 13 child rape cases were only settled to keep Trump away from guilty verdicts?
Why did ABC decide to bend the knee to Trump? Obviously to kiss ass, get on his good side, interviews with TrumpWorld, etc. iI’s just business, not personal.
Contrary to worldwide ignorance, what we see "happening" in Palestine at this very moment is an attempted genocide that is funded by the taxpayers of the United States of America.
Republicans and Democrats pay for the genocide of Palestinian people.
#4PAL
Trump wants apologies from everyone who dares to actually tell the Truth about Him;
#TrumpIsALifeLongCriminal who imagines himself as #DictatorTrump #Project2025 #MobBoss
Of course you will all fall into submission and servitude. The price is only the tattered and sullied identity of our country, and any ideals we still cling to like a childhood blanket. The people are the only ones to truly suffer, for their trust that someone would speak the truth. But …nope.
As I recall, the jury wasn't asked to decide whether Trump "raped" E. Jean Carroll. It wasn't a criminal trial to weigh in judgment on the crime of rape. It was a civil trial. At issue was whether he defamed her when he'd lied about sexually abusing her. Words matter.
What about freedom of the press?? Freedom of speech?? Is he going to come after us little people and muzzle us?? He's just starting to rake away our rights, and he hasn't even been sworn in yet
So the statement by judge Kaplan himself that essentially said Trump was found guilty of rape by the jury, means nothing? ABC just decided to fold to Donald Trump?
Apologise for a library that will hold even less books than Bush Jr? Two morons who between them read a total of 10 books, have libraries? And ABC has to apologise for it? Nice. Also, Orange Thing is 💰laundering through that "library".
Clearly, he intends to run the country like a mob boss running - among other things - a worldwide protection racket!
If nothing else, that litigious grifter knows his way around the courthouse! I’m speaking metaphorically, of course; it’s doubtful that he can even find the bathroom at night. 🫣🤭
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Maybe read a book from time to time?
Like Clinton getting away with it by saying “sexual relations”, Trump gets off on semantics….
They're paying off trump so he doesn't go after their media company.
This is called #AdjudicatedRape
ABC COWARDS CAVE TO SERUAL SEXUAL ABUSER TRUMP
Where’s their justice?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll
The media as a whole is shaping up to be quite the cowards and tools of the elite. Your owners can now fully and freely shout "sieg heil" to Herr Trump
4th estate is a joke, certainly isn’t journalism.
If the resistance doesn’t learn how to go on offense, this country is doomed.
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FFS
Rumor is he took a dump in his diaper at the Cathedral de Norte Dame and everyone around him couldn’t stand the stench. You should see the video, we have been laughing all week with it! 😝😝
#VonShitzInPants
https://youtu.be/PP-iVIbUXbY?si=5jeIgKv3eqS9Z7Vj
#NBC #CNN #NBCUniversal #MSNBC #FOXNEWS #ABC
But they had to do this. Dumbopopolass used the wrong term. No way ABC could win case. Choice was to fight and keep it in news 🔄 till they lost (and spend lots 💸 to lawyers, and keeping carrot top in news. Or 💰off the apprentice. My 2🪙
Looks like this applies to ABC ...
https://bsky.app/profile/tizzywoman.bsky.social/post/3ldei2jeghc2l
#DonaldTrumpIsARapist ...the Judge ruled that Trump did Rape E.Jean Carroll...
And the Judge on the ABC case had just ordered Trump to appear for his 4hr Deposition ;
STOP giving away #Justice to #LifeLongCriminalTrump
You don’t even know to be ashamed of yourselves for rolling over like that, and you should be. Shame on you, ABC News, and good luck being a trusted news source anytime soon.
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Capitulation in advance is NOT the best message to anyone!
ABC and, in particular, Stephanopoulos is dead to me…
Contrary to worldwide ignorance, what we see "happening" in Palestine at this very moment is an attempted genocide that is funded by the taxpayers of the United States of America.
Republicans and Democrats pay for the genocide of Palestinian people.
#4PAL
We're sorry we said that the rapist committed rape.
https://bsky.app/profile/on-ligers-7th.bsky.social/post/3lcqeksl5ts2l
#TrumpIsALifeLongCriminal who imagines himself as #DictatorTrump #Project2025 #MobBoss
Pay up and shut up.
OBEY IN ADVANCE.
WTF is going on?
Trump is a public figure, and George spoke facts. And still, they capitulated to the king. Welcome to our dictatorship.
"Mr. Trump’s argument plainly is foreclosed by the analysis set forth above and by the Court’s determination that the jury implicitly found Mr. Trump did in fact digitally rape Ms. Carroll." -LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.212.0.pdf
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Clearly, he intends to run the country like a mob boss running - among other things - a worldwide protection racket!
If nothing else, that litigious grifter knows his way around the courthouse! I’m speaking metaphorically, of course; it’s doubtful that he can even find the bathroom at night. 🫣🤭