MSNBC host says George Stephanopoulos’ Trump comment ‘seems to hold up’
The MSNBC host said ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos' comments that prompted President-elect Donald Trump to file a defamation lawsuit against the Disney-owned network prompted Disney to pay $15 million to settle the case. Despite agreeing to pay, “it appears to be persisting,” he said. Claim.
Simone Sanders Townsend, host of “The Weekend,” a Sunday talk show on Comcast's left-leaning cable channel, said ABC News paying the settlement “feels like it's going to have a really chilling effect.”
Biden's former press secretary, Sanders Townsend, said on air that “Stephanopoulos' statement” that Trump was responsible for the rapes “seems to hold up.” [with] What the judge said after the fact…” Her comments Mediaite reported.
MSNBC's Simone Sanders Townsend, host of “The Weeknd,” weighed in on the $15 million settlement between ABC News and President-elect Donald Trump. MSNBC
She pointed out that Mr. Stephanopoulos is paying Mr. Trump's lawyer Alejandro Brito $1 million from his own money, while ABC News is paying $15 million.
“It's insane,” she said.
The Post reached out to ABC News, MSNBC and Trump for comment on the transition.
ABC News announced Saturday that President Trump's library will be closed in a settlement of a defamation lawsuit over anchor Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air claims that the president-elect was found civilly liable for raping author E. Jean Carroll. agreed to pay $15 million.
As part of the settlement announced Saturday, ABC News posted an editor's note on its website expressing regret over Stephanopoulos' comments on the March 10 “This Week” show.
On March 10, George Stephanopoulos of ABC's “This Week” made comments that led to him suing President Trump for defamation. ABC News
“We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit under the terms of the court filing,” said ABC News spokeswoman Jeannie Kedas.
The settlement agreement was signed Friday, the same day a federal judge in Florida ordered Trump and Stephanopoulos to give separate depositions next week. The settlement eliminates the need for sworn testimony.
The agreement featured Trump's bold, distinctive signature and Stephanopoulos' electronic signature with the initials “GRS” in the name field.
Debra O'Connell, president of ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks, also electronically signed the agreement.
Under the agreement, ABC News must transfer the $15 million it is providing to Trump's library into an escrow account controlled by Brito's law firm within 10 days.
The network must also pay Brito's legal fees within 10 days.
President-elect Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News. The two sides reached a settlement over the weekend. Getty Images
President Trump sued ABC and Stephanopoulos in federal court in Miami days after ABC aired the segment. In that segment, the longtime “Good Morning America” anchor and host of “This Week” repeatedly misrepresented the verdicts in two civil lawsuits filed by Carroll against Trump.
In a live interview on “This Week” with U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Stephanopoulos said Trump was “found responsible for rape” and “vilified rape victims.” falsely claimed.
Neither verdict included a finding of rape as defined by New York state law.
In the first case to go to trial, Trump was found guilty last year of sexually abusing and defaming Carroll. The jury ordered him to pay $5 million.
In January, at a second trial in federal court in Manhattan, Trump was found liable in an additional defamation suit and ordered to pay Carroll $83.3 million.
Trump and Stephanopoulos on ABC News in September 2020. AFP (via Getty Images)
Trump is appealing both verdicts.
Carroll, a former advice columnist, published claims in her 2019 memoir that Trump raped her in the mid-1990s at Bergdorf Goodman, the luxury Manhattan department store across from Trump Tower, after they passed each other at the entrance. .
Trump denied her claims, saying he did not know Carroll and had never met her at the store.
Carroll is seeking unspecified monetary damages after President Trump slammed her as a “nut job” who concocted a “fraudulent and false story” to sell her memoir. He filed a lawsuit seeking to retract what he said was a defamatory denial of President Trump.
Testifying in April 2023, Carroll told jurors: “I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened.'' He lied and destroyed my reputation, so I came here to get my life back.”
Stephanopoulos is said to have paid $1 million of his own money to settle the case. GC images
After agreeing to help Trump buy a gift for a woman, Carroll said Trump pushed her against a dressing room wall, stomped on her mouth, pulled her tights down, shoved his hands in her, and held his penis between them. He testified that he pushed it inside her. I had a hard time against him.
She said she eventually forced him to her knees and ran away.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan upheld the trial court's $5 million verdict, concluding that the jury “failed to prove that Trump raped Carroll within a narrow technical sense.” Except that, he wrote, the unanimous verdict was almost entirely in Carroll's favor. It is based on certain provisions of the New York Penal Code. ”
MSNBC host says George Stephanopoulos’ Trump comment ‘seems to hold up’
The MSNBC host said ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos' comments that prompted President-elect Donald Trump to file a defamation lawsuit against the Disney-owned network prompted Disney to pay $15 million to settle the case. Despite agreeing to pay, “it appears to be persisting,” he said. Claim.
Simone Sanders Townsend, host of “The Weekend,” a Sunday talk show on Comcast's left-leaning cable channel, said ABC News paying the settlement “feels like it's going to have a really chilling effect.”
Biden's former press secretary, Sanders Townsend, said on air that “Stephanopoulos' statement” that Trump was responsible for the rapes “seems to hold up.” [with] What the judge said after the fact…” Her comments Mediaite reported.
She pointed out that Mr. Stephanopoulos is paying Mr. Trump's lawyer Alejandro Brito $1 million from his own money, while ABC News is paying $15 million.
“It's insane,” she said.
The Post reached out to ABC News, MSNBC and Trump for comment on the transition.
ABC News announced Saturday that President Trump's library will be closed in a settlement of a defamation lawsuit over anchor Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air claims that the president-elect was found civilly liable for raping author E. Jean Carroll. agreed to pay $15 million.
As part of the settlement announced Saturday, ABC News posted an editor's note on its website expressing regret over Stephanopoulos' comments on the March 10 “This Week” show.
“We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit under the terms of the court filing,” said ABC News spokeswoman Jeannie Kedas.
The settlement agreement was signed Friday, the same day a federal judge in Florida ordered Trump and Stephanopoulos to give separate depositions next week. The settlement eliminates the need for sworn testimony.
The agreement featured Trump's bold, distinctive signature and Stephanopoulos' electronic signature with the initials “GRS” in the name field.
Debra O'Connell, president of ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks, also electronically signed the agreement.
Under the agreement, ABC News must transfer the $15 million it is providing to Trump's library into an escrow account controlled by Brito's law firm within 10 days.
The network must also pay Brito's legal fees within 10 days.
President Trump sued ABC and Stephanopoulos in federal court in Miami days after ABC aired the segment. In that segment, the longtime “Good Morning America” anchor and host of “This Week” repeatedly misrepresented the verdicts in two civil lawsuits filed by Carroll against Trump.
In a live interview on “This Week” with U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Stephanopoulos said Trump was “found responsible for rape” and “vilified rape victims.” falsely claimed.
Neither verdict included a finding of rape as defined by New York state law.
In the first case to go to trial, Trump was found guilty last year of sexually abusing and defaming Carroll. The jury ordered him to pay $5 million.
In January, at a second trial in federal court in Manhattan, Trump was found liable in an additional defamation suit and ordered to pay Carroll $83.3 million.
Trump is appealing both verdicts.
Carroll, a former advice columnist, published claims in her 2019 memoir that Trump raped her in the mid-1990s at Bergdorf Goodman, the luxury Manhattan department store across from Trump Tower, after they passed each other at the entrance. .
Trump denied her claims, saying he did not know Carroll and had never met her at the store.
Carroll is seeking unspecified monetary damages after President Trump slammed her as a “nut job” who concocted a “fraudulent and false story” to sell her memoir. He filed a lawsuit seeking to retract what he said was a defamatory denial of President Trump.
Testifying in April 2023, Carroll told jurors: “I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it never happened.'' He lied and destroyed my reputation, so I came here to get my life back.”
After agreeing to help Trump buy a gift for a woman, Carroll said Trump pushed her against a dressing room wall, stomped on her mouth, pulled her tights down, shoved his hands in her, and held his penis between them. He testified that he pushed it inside her. I had a hard time against him.
She said she eventually forced him to her knees and ran away.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan upheld the trial court's $5 million verdict, concluding that the jury “failed to prove that Trump raped Carroll within a narrow technical sense.” Except that, he wrote, the unanimous verdict was almost entirely in Carroll's favor. It is based on certain provisions of the New York Penal Code. ”
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