Donald Trump awarded $15m in ABC News defamation case

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Donald Trump awarded $15m in ABC News defamation case

ABC News has agreed to pay $15m (£12m) to US President-elect Donald Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit after its star anchor falsely said he had been found “liable for *****”.

George Stephanopoulos made the defamatory statements repeatedly during an interview on 10 March this year when he challenged a congresswoman about her support for Trump.

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Trump was liable for “******* abuse”, which has a specific definition under New York law.

As part of Saturday’s settlement, ABC will also publish a statement expressing its “regret” for the statements by Stephanopoulos.

The network also agreed to pay $1m towards Trump’s legal fees.

In 2023, a New York civil court found Trump ********* abused E Jean Carroll in a dressing room at a department store in 1996.

Judge Lewis Kaplan said the jury’s conclusion was that Ms Carroll had failed to prove that Trump ****** her “within the narrow, technical meaning of a particular section of the New York Penal Law”.

Kaplan noted that the definition of ***** was “far narrower” than how ***** is defined in common modern parlance, in some dictionaries and in criminal statutes elsewhere.

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