Facing depositions and the strong possibility of an embarrassment in court, ABC and George Stephanopoulos have agreed to apologize to President Trump and donate $15,000,000.00 to the President Trump library to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by President Trump.
(Via FOX) 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.
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. (read more)
A statement at the bottom of an online article is not the same as stating on air that he was misleading the viewers. So, unless the $15 million is coming out of George’s bank account he is getting off easy. Money means nothing to these people. Make him say the words out loud for all who watch him to hear.
It’s an insurance payout. Guaranteed. 😔
It’ll take alot more than this to cause pain or sorrow to the network or little Georgy girl.
Nice win for Trump though! Fun. Fun. Fun!🤩
Georgy’s salary is estimated at $15 million a year. He may not be getting a raise anytime soon now.
ISN’T little georgie ALREADY A” NOBODY”???
PDJT can parlay this into wealth of memes that every podcaster will pick up and make fun with. Way more than the 3 people who watch abc news with sissy pants tiny boy
I suspect ABC was terrified of Trump’s lawyers getting access to all their emails as part of trial discovery. There must have been a whole lot of very damaging coordination between ABC execs, the Democrats, the NYC prosecutors etc. all of them knowing they were lying about Trump. So ABC pays $15M to bury it all.
SPOT ON!!!!
That sounds about right!
Escapee,
That is why this should have more zeros attached to the number.
15 mil. should be 15 bil.
Make it big enough that it raises eyebrows.
GS has serious TDS…there is no way he would apologize…
But…if I’m ABC…I’m sure there is a clause in his Contract referencing conduct…as such his value in the legacy media has diminished…
Get ready for a huge pay cut George…or… Chris Wallace can help you with a podcast…
Just the fact that a “news” organization has to admit that they lied is big enough, nowadays
We know they lie, but there still some people who believe them … The millions who voted for Kamala, for example.
Val1,
Do you think that they are going to, “admit that they lied…”?
The settlement said something about an apology. If you are waiting for an admission,
you will be disappointed. They will simply say that they were inaccurate and made a
mistake. Kinda like Sonny Hostin (another ABC/Disney employee) did:
Indeed.
Part of the settlement should have been an on air apology for a Calendar quarter of Sundays.
Since the lie was repeated 10 times, the apology shoud cite each statement, with a repeated apology.
In other words, be specific! Cite each and every mention of the lie and apologize.
Still, the million needs to be billion, 15 billion. Inflation, and all.
That $15M can fund the “George Stephanopoulos Fake News” wing in the PDJT45/47 Presidential Library. There should be a commemorative plaque at its entrance describing how that wing was paid for by the lies and slander of ABC and Stephanopoulos.
Georgie’s name will be synonymous with fake news and media slander. Future historians (in a more honest time) will study and write of how he lied about Trump and disgraced the media’s reputation and cite it as the lowest point of the biased broadcast industry.
Just like the rest of the PDJT library it will show how Trump turned hostility and lies into triumphs.
I consider the ruling a huge middle finger aimed squarely @ ABC (Always Broadcasting Crap).
A lot of people know enough about the ruling that it will always stick in their minds whenever they for whatever reasons choose to tune into ABC.
Doesn’t matter how much ABC paid. It was ABC that chose to cut their losses & settle the case that they pretty much knew they were going to lose.
Oh, if only.. lol.
and DJT is just getting started. ABC and Slopadopoulis were just pimp slapped down Broadway.
The name is George Stepalloverus.
aka
George Stepsinpoopalot
George Stuffinenvelopes!
“George Stepnfetchitous”
The Clinton’s boot licker gets whatever he deserves. The rest of you Mockingbird media mandarins take heed.
extra points for your impressive alliteration, Scrap
MEANWHIE tHE CONVICTED CRIMAL bILL cLINTON, THE MAN? WHO HAS LOST HIS VOICE ( the PUNISHMENT FOR SEXUAL EXCESS AS A LIFESTYLE RASPS ON WITH HIS TEENY VOICE.
PDJT sued ABC for $50M, and settled fort $15M + $1M for atty fees and a blurb at the bottom of the original article.
Dominion sued Fox for $1.6B, and settled for $787M, plus Tucker’s job.
For those keeping track at home, that means PDJT got 32% of what he sued for, while Dominion got 49%….a 17% difference in outcome.
Thanks for the digits. 🤝
I suspect President Trump’s yuge Presidential Library, in all its splendor and magnificence, will be almost totally funded by these media scoundrels and Lawfare lizards! They will be named, pictured and described in detail what they did and how much they “contributed”. Will last Forever!
“………..scoundrels and Lawfare lizards! They will be named, pictured and described in detail what they did and how much they “contributed”…………on a plaque on the restroom wall, where you can go make a contribution to their memory too!
When was the Dominion suite, two years ago? They’d never get away with it now.
Trump and Melania’s thumbs up in your face smiles are media billions!
Not keeping track, don’t care in the big picture.
Are you an accountant?
Well here is something to keep track of, Reid Hoffman bank rolled both the Dominion lawsuit against Fox and the fabricated fairy tale of E Jean Corroll’s civil suit against Trump.
That was just a payoff so (F)Pox News wouldn’t have to prove Discovery. Don’t forget Blackrock bought a 15 % share in Dom!n!on AND (F)Pox BEFORE the “settlement”..
that was then when senile Joe was running amok and this is now. when that is over. Dominion is out and will stay out anywhere in the world while de-crystalization continues along for 5 -10 more year and the world catches up. P.S> The Chinese people have never known freedom. Maybe they can change?
No good. Edit article and apologies at the top.
15 million let’s them off too easy.
Need to throw some community service in, like in North Carolina.
Do any of these do nothings from the media have skills? Would they know which end of a hammer to hold? Would they have the strength to shovel mud?
But maybe they should have to sleep in the cold tents until everyone has a home!
Send Slapolopoulos to Ukraine as their ABCs war correspondent!
George repeated the smear ten times. He should be forced to apologize ten times 😆
Oh if this is in Brazil, by law he has to pay 7x per smear! The SCUMS all!
Regret my tookus.
Their only real regret was almost having to say they’re sorry.
A few lines from a few songs come to mind…
“Hey there Georgy girl”
“Short people ain’t got no reason to live”
…and on and on, into the night!
I’m not tired of winning yet. 🕶️✝️🕶️
Made me think of this for some reason
I hope this is just the tip of the iceberg.
A step in the Right direction.
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So good to see that smug little toad be held accountable for what he says in the media.
I have despised Stepninalotofit ever since his Clinton days of providing smarmy excuses for Clinton’s actions.
Mr Lawfare chimes in 😂
Saved.
Posts like this never age well for leftist slime like Elias.
Gonna be fun shoving it up his nose in the future.
That is good news!
I wonder if Joe Biden will get sore at them for doing that? Maybe even Barack Obama didn’t get anything for his, either.
Did they give anything to the Clinton Liebury?
I always remember that famous cover of “Time” magazine back on November 24, 1997 – a really scary Saddam Hussein is staring down a little cartoon figure that is apparently our President at the time, Bill Clinton – “Showdown” emblazoned above the picture – at the time that I saw it at the grocery store, I did not recall ever seeing what looked like a cartoonish illustration on the front of “Time” magazine – usually a sedate photograph of a currently famous person like Hitler or Einstein –
inside, there was an article with George Stephanopoulos and Thomas Friedman – those two bozos were actually openly discussing the prospects and possibility of having Saddam Hussein assassinated – even specifying a “head shot” – this is after, 20 years after, the Church Committee investigation and findings about foreign meddling, assassinations by our military/intelligence personnel. I was pretty astonished that no one took those two dingalings to task and that they have even been given spots to opine and spread their idiotic take on things.
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It was really wonderful to see that “Time” magazine accorded President Trump the “Person of the Year” cover (he is truly a Man in the Rudyard Kipling mode in “If”).
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I apologize for the extra pasting of the link to the “Time” magazine cover – two extra times!
Poor Mini Georgie stuffacckinhismouthupous
Oughta be run outa the country, HE has lied and mislead, misdirected the people on so many issues, shilled for the Cintons and DNC for so many years
Oughta be TAR & FEATHERED
LOCKED IN STOCKS ON THE TOWN SQUARE
Then shipped to Siberia to live out his miserable little life
LOSER
He is very tiny.
Petite, even.
LOOK LIKE?
YOU ARE IDIOTS!!!
VAN JONES PAINTS HIS NAILS!!!
HAVE A LOOK
Ha ha ha .. Got his nails done by professional routine service.
At least he is speaking truth for once. Trump is a phenomenon, a giant among men, an icon which in part the media helped to create.
Van Jones is right, they are idiots.
The moment you realize that after storming into the brush, that the feint rustling you heard, was in fact not a bunny rabbit, but a giant angry badger.
70-80 million angry (honey) badgers?
As for the media ecosystem “built around and for him” Van Jones is completely wrong. The media ecosystem he’s referencing was built because his kind locked out any dissent, and that was happening long before 2015.
And about that media ecosystem: Tim Pool pointed out its vulnerability to the Comcasts of the world offering lots of dough to a half dozen leftists on YT, then continuing to spread lies and propaganda on a large scale. Take Rachel’s $25M for maybe 80k viewers in “the demo”, and convert it to $5M per YT leftist channel – each of whom has 100k or 1M followers – that’s a lot of influence. 🤷♀️
DJT will put the money toward his presidential library. I hope he names a wing after Little Georgie and puts up a plaque with his name as the donor.
AND, urinal screens sporting his smarmy face……
The George stephanopolis memorial Urinal ala Provosts Privy from the Green Berets
I love that picture of PDJT and Melania having a good laugh together.
Yes, the laugh from the story behind it, is side-splitting
Another loss for Lilliputian Georgie boy, and another win in the Trump column. A big shout to Rep Nancy Mace for calling the turd out on his rape allegation. He kept insisting it was true.
What kind of man brags about watching porn with his wife Alexandra Wentworth and their two teenage daughters? To teach them about sex she said.
They are friends with the Clintons..
Forget the $$!!! Let them be embarrassed and face possible further legal action! Enough of letting them get away with this crap!
President Trump 15,000,000
Deep State 0
Russia announces it’s stopping grain shipments to Syria.
Ukraine announces it’s starting grain shipments to Syria
Justice finally for the little smart mouth, Georgie Steffi, who only claim to famous as a journalist is zip. He was Clinton’s hatchet man during the 90s blasting any woman the dared come forward about Clinton sexual abuse. Then automatically becomes a journalist at ABC. Great to see this just great!!
Love the pics!
In a similar context lots of folks keep saying Trump was convicted in one of his cases, but legally, you are not a convict until the Judge passes the sentence.
Sounds like Trump could make bucks by suing a few more news outlets.
Was it a criminal trial?
How can you be convicted, if it was a civil suit?
What am I missing?
1HaHaHaa…. this is totally rich! (A)sinine (B)ogus (C)#nts/Staph-anopoulos having to pound sand … Annnnnnd ponying up millions to boot!! serves them right, the fools.
Get in line! Next!
CNN
Such a disgusting waste of everything – it’s time to get on with each of our own lives – I’m just waiting for Jan 20th. This will be our beautiful US second birth – kind of like being born again.
How many eggs can Trump buy for $10million to havenpatriots throw at ABC headquarters? The other $5million is clean up the mess so no charges…😎
Love that pic!!
🥰
Does anyone know which rally it was with Melania in the top picture with her in the white dress?
I. Don’t think That was a rally. It might have been before campainging or at the verybeginning.
It wasn’t a rally. It was an interview in a public outdoor setting. I can’t recall which news outlet did it. I do remember Melania being asked about tweets. It might have been with Sean Hannity. I searched a little, but I can’t find it.
It appears that Mr. Stephanopoulos has closed down his X/twitter account.
Speculation is that may have been part of the terms of the settlement.
George and AB got off cheap.
My heart feels like an alligator.
E. Jean? You may want to call Rachael Maddow and cancel that 5th Ave. shopping spree you guys had planned.
Liar-Liar, orange jump suit on fire.
Georgy Porgy
ABC News,
And their fake news liar,
Ended up,
In a dump$$ter fire.
Sundance, do you have record of where you got the picture of Melania in the white dress with President Trump from?
I am with you ChooseAmerica cause she is a knock-out looking WOMEN…bill
ABC must be getting tired of “lawyer’s notes”.
Words matter. Words, couched in terms of NEWS matter even more. I am delighted President Trump won this case. I love the fact that he and Mrs. Trump both sue people who intentionally slander them.
I’d say make them all eat doo doo on air but they like that too much, they do it all night and day.
The little dude is such a punk!
Think I’ll start a “celebrity” Garden Gnome company.
Of course, he would be an adorable Garden Gnome, esp.
with those punk black-rimmed glasses!
The other contender for Garden Gnome is Zelensky dressed as this character:
complete with his high-heels, leather britches, and exposed belly.
Who else could make an adorable Garden Gnome?? Suggestions?
Macron
I can only do my smug laugh. Finally, justice is served. On a solid gold platter.
Disney gets to pay at least a bit after GROOMING the little ones.
StepsOnAllOfUs and ABC just got financially raped by President Trump. Way to go you bad boy. LOL
E(vil) Jean Carroll.
Punitive damages should’ve been a lot more. If judges want corporate media to not do this anymore they must make it hurt. They never do….