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Ah, sweet justice. Donald Trump has just won a massive victory against the far-left propaganda factory that masquerades as the news media, and patriots all across the land can hope, for the sake of our freedom and our future, that this is just the first victory of many. Will this herald an end to the left’s relentless efforts to mischaracterize, misrepresent, and misreport the words and deeds of patriots, so as to get as many people as possible to turn against them? That’s unlikely in the extreme. But it sure helps.
Technically it’s a settlement, but it’s very clear which side came out on top. Fox News Digital, which broke this story first, reported Saturday that “ABC News and their top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit, which will result in the news network paying the president-elect $15 million.” This settlement precludes Trump’s suit from going to trial, which shows that ABC’s top dogs understood how weak their case really was: they’re happy to fork over $15 million to make this thing go away rather than have a trial reveal just how far from actual journalism they have allowed themselves to stray.
And so now “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.” The statement says: “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024.”
This is outrageously mild in comparison to how Stephanopoulos defamed Trump, but the $15 million takes a bit of the sting out of that. Trump, according to Fox, “filed a defamation suit against Stephanopoulos after he asserted that Trump was found ‘liable for rape’ in a civil case during a contentious interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., last March.”
The far-left former Clinton apparatchik Stephanopoulos was played “a clip of Mace discussing being a victim of rape,” and then asked her, “How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?” The rabidly partisan and viciously biased pseudo-journalist continued: “You’ve endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape.”
Stephanopoulos was, of course, referring to fantasist E. Jean Carroll’s claim that Trump raped her many years ago in a Bergdorf Goodman’s dressing room. Back in September, Trump’s attorney Will Scharf dissected Carroll’s claim, making it clear yet again that no sentient human being should have taken her story seriously. Scharf pointed out the obvious fact that Carroll’s story “at its heart is an utterly implausible, he said she said story.”
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Hoi Polloi says
Now do Kaitlan Collins and all those spouting the currently fashionable “Trump lied over 30,000 times in his first term.” Make them produce a full accounting for that claim and then pay up. Or any of their outrageous lies, like the disinfect blood with bleach lie. Or the very fine people lie. Or the whole Russia! Russia! Russia! lying hoax. So many choices.
Troybeam says
Spot on, justice prevails.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If I were in ABC’s management, it would be a signal to me to part company w/ Stephanopoulos. Right now, all those Leftist channels – CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS are shedding staff like dogs. There is no reason their “stars” like Stephanopoulos, Maddow, Kimmel, Tapper, et should be spared the axe. They should be cut loose, and let them see whether they can match the following of “Pod save America”
James Lincoln says
I agree, Infidel.
Can’t wait to see top conservative news outlets / podcasters with a very visible presence in the White House press room.
With Pres. Trump’s second term, the fake news (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) will be called out – and rightfully marginalized.
Viki Norman says
Sue, sue, sue….let all theses attorneys, no matter their affiliation, know that their services are needed to provide justice for conservatives; for free speech, for bodily autonomy (from ‘vaccines’), for protection of minors from gender mutilating drugs and surgeries, protection of parental rights, protection of minors from pornographic material in their public and school libraries, protection from coerced and forced abortions, from selling preborn children’s body parts.