Former President Donald Trump secured a $24 million settlement in a defamation case against ABC News. The network agreed to pay the sum to Trump's presidential library foundation and his legal costs after he sued them for portraying him as having been found liable for rape.
a defamation suit Donald Trump brought against the network ABC, which is owned by Disney, agreed to pay $US15 million ($24 million) to Trump’s presidential library foundation and pay Trump’s legal costs, supposedly another $US1 million. In Australia, occasionally, we see settlements like this. But never for anything like $24 million. In the US, it’s very, very unusual. It certainly looks like a crushing victory for Trump in his attempts to cow the media.
It certainly looks like a crushing victory for Trump in his attempts to cow the media. Protesters outside the Federal Court in New York in January this year, during E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against him.It goes back to a woman who says that, in 1996, Trump accosted her in the changing rooms of an upscale department store in Manhattan. The writer E. Jean Carroll testified – and forgive my bluntness here, but it will have relevance later – that Donald Trump pushed her up against a wall, pawed her, and digitally penetrated her. Several civil cases ensued. I’ll skip over the complications; Carroll won all of them. However, the jury in one found that Trump had sexually assaulted, rather than raped, her. That’s because New York state law at the time defined rape as involving forced penile penetration of the vagina. (, in the wake of this case, even anal rape was not considered rape in the state.) Indeed, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said bluntly thatI will pause here and let everyone reflect that the person in question has just been re-elected as US president. Now let’s fast-forward to March this year. Onetime Bill Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos, now a prominent host for ABC News,. He pressed her repeatedly about how she could support someone who’d been found liable for rape. Trump then sued ABC News for defamation, saying the jury hadn’t found that. E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan Federal Court in January, less than a year after convincing a jury that Donald Trump sexually abused her decades ag
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