(Reuters) -ABC Information has agreed to offer $15 million to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over feedback that anchor George Stephanopoulos made on air involving the civil case introduced in opposition to Trump by author E. Jean Carroll, a courtroom doc filed on Saturday confirmed.
The lawsuit, filed on March 19 in U.S. District Courtroom in Southern Florida, accused Stephanopoulos of creating the statements with malice and a disregard for the reality. It mentioned the statements have been distributed extensively to 3rd events and repeated.
“We’re happy that the events have reached an settlement to dismiss the lawsuit on the phrases within the courtroom submitting,” an ABC Information spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
The lawsuit cites a March 10 interview with U.S. Consultant Nancy Mace, a Republican who has spoken publicly about being raped as a young person. In the course of the interview, Stephanopoulos mentioned Trump was discovered answerable for rape and requested her how she might endorse the candidate.
In keeping with the settlement, ABC Information should publish by Sunday an announcement on the backside of a March 10 on-line article that accompanied the interview.
“ABC Information and George Stephanopoulos remorse statements concerning President Donald J. Trump made throughout an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024,” the assertion should say, based on the courtroom doc.
