ABC News has settled to pay President-elect Donald Trump $15 million towards his presidential library in defamation case.
The settlement which has been described as “charitable contribution” will also see the media station pay Trump’s attorney Alejandro Brito’s law firm $1 million in legal charges.
The case involved George Stephanopoulos’ This Week programme on March 10th where he said Trump has been found liable of raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
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While interviewing South Carolina representative Nancy Mace, the presenter made the defamatory statement with the case against Trump brought to court in 2023 where he was indeed found liable sexually abusing the writer by the jury.
Trump was also found liable of defaming the writer after including the story in his 2019 memoir before he was ordered to pay her $83.3 million. Despite the ruling, New York law did not find evidence of rape.
US district judge Lewis Kaplan upheld the judgement saying that Carroll had failed to prove that Trump had raped her “within the narrow, technical meaning of a particular section of the New York Penal Law”.
Trump is appealing both verdicts and claimed that he does not know Carroll and that the two have never met at the store.
