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ABC News settlement with Trump sends chill through media
Headline from The Hill, on the newest of 2 developments
ABC News’s decision to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Trump is sending a chill through the media, with press organizations suggesting it is a major blow.
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ABC News agreed to contribute $15 million to President-elect Donald Trump's presidential foundation and museum to settle the defamation suit filed by Trump.
Trump filed his defamation suit after an ABC News anchor claimed that he had been "found liable for rape" in connection to writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuits.
ABC has agreed to contribute $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential foundation and museum as part of a settlement reached in Trump's defamation case against the network, according to a court filing today.
ABC News will pay $15 million as part of a legal settlement with President-elect Donald Trump, closing out a dispute that centered on an interview in which Trump alleged anchor George Stephanopoulos defamed him.
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
By Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — ABC News will pay $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” in a settlement reached with President-elect Donald Trump in his defamation suit against the network and anchor George Stephanopoulos.
As first reported by Fox News Digital, ABC News and President-elect Donald Trump reached a $15 million settlement on Saturday after This Week host George Stephanopoulos falsely accused Trump of being found "liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll case.
WASHINGTON — ABC has agreed to donate $15 million to Donald Trump’s future presidential foundation or museum to settle claims that one of its anchors defamed the president-elect in describing
From the July 24 opinion by Chief Judge Cecilia Altonaga (S.D. Fla.) that led to ABC's $15M (plus $1M in attorney fees plus an editor's note) settlement