This was an expensive week for ABC News after it was learned on Saturday that the network had decided to settle a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump.
As it turned out, ABC host George Stephanopoulos, in an apparent rush to please anti-Trump viewers everywhere, got caught in his own "journalism" trap during an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, resulting in a big defamation settlement:
The settlement was publicly filed on Saturday, revealing that the two parties have come to an agreement and avoided a costly trial. According to the settlement, ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a "Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff, as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past." Additionally, the network will pay $1 million in Trump's attorney fees.
Stephanopoulos and ABC News will issue statements of "regret" as an editor's note at the bottom of a March 10, 2024, online article, about comments made earlier this year that prompted Trump to file a defamation lawsuit.
Megyn Kelly called out the fainting couch-level hyperventilating from Stephanopoulos earlier this year on her podcast, and it's clear by this that ABC's lawyers decided it was best to just try and write a check, issue as low-key an apology as possible, and move on.
Here's Kelly obliterating Stephanopoulos and everything he's stood for in the past (via @BigFish3000):
Megyn Kelly tearing George Stephanopoulos to shreds. Today it’s costing ABC 15 Million and he has to apologize.
— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) December 14, 2024
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It's still amazing that Stephanopoulos is such a proven partisan but is presented by a network as a "journalist." Amazing, but not surprising.
A beautiful and well deserved take down of George Stephanopoulos https://t.co/dEzbyBP9pz
— Limby (@heyLimby) December 14, 2024
It was.
— Kerry 🇺🇸 (@K1erry) December 14, 2024
Hillary Clinton, who also helped smear women with accusations about Bill Clinton, is just as bad if not far worse. The hypocrisy and projection is staggering.