{"id":817883,"date":"2025-01-07T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/abc-to-pay-15m-to-trump-library-to-settle-lawsuit-court-documents-show\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:12:07","slug":"abc-to-pay-15m-to-trump-library-to-settle-lawsuit-court-documents-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/abc-to-pay-15m-to-trump-library-to-settle-lawsuit-court-documents-show\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC to pay $15M to Trump library to settle lawsuit, court documents show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-content\">\n<div>\n<p>ABC News has agreed to give $15 million to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over comments that anchor George Stephanopoulos made on air involving the civil case brought against Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll, a court document filed on Saturday showed. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed on March 19 in U.S. District Court in Southern Florida, accused Stephanopoulos of making the statements with malice and a disregard for the truth. It said the statements were distributed widely to third parties and repeated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing,&#8221; an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit cites a March 10 interview with U.S. Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican who has spoken publicly about being raped as a teenager. During the interview, Stephanopoulos said Trump was found liable for rape and asked her how she could endorse the candidate. <\/p>\n<p>According to the settlement, ABC News must publish by Sunday a statement at the bottom of a March 10 online article that accompanied the interview. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Representative Nancy Mace on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week on March 10, 2024,&#8221; the statement must say, according to the court document. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/abc-to-pay-15m-to-trump-library-to-settle-lawsuit-court-documents-show-\/7901619.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News has agreed to give $15 million to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over comments that anchor George Stephanopoulos made on air involving the civil case brought against Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll, a court document filed on Saturday showed. The lawsuit, filed on March 19 in U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":817884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29657,4],"tags":[13865,5052],"class_list":{"0":"post-817883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-library","8":"category-trump","9":"tag-library","10":"tag-trump"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}