CNN host Jim Acosta defended mainstream media after ABC decided to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump over its coverage of his lawsuit with E. Jean Carroll.
President Trump spoke after Stephanopoulos said in an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (RS.C.) that Trump was found “responsible for rape” in the E. Jean Carroll civil suit. filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News host George Stephanopoulos. After Stephanopoulos and Trump were ordered by a judge to appear in a deposition, ABC filed a $15 million settlement that will eventually be donated to Trump's presidential museum. It's planned.
“Well, some people have to bend their knees and some people have to stand up straight.”
talk about the incident Acosta said in an interview with CNN Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter that this is bad news for the media. Because Trump will still be Trump when he returns to the White House next year, “we have a very important job to do.”
“For me at least, it's time for our industry to take a stand, we have a very important job to do, and that doesn't mean putting us on a pedestal. “But we're going to keep going. 'President Trump has a very important job because he's not going to change his ways,” Acosta insisted.
“If the news industry is just doing its job, we can't let them worry about this kind of thing,” he added.
“Well, if some people are going to bend the knee, others have to stand up straight,” Stelter said, adding that President Trump has in the past published articles to threaten the press and self-censor before taking office. He pointed out that he had once threatened to sue.
“While he certainly won this case with a large sum of money, the broader concerns about self-censorship are something that many viewers and readers are concerned about. And at the end of the day, Jim, we… We work for them. We work for the audience, no one else,''' Stelter concluded.
On Monday, Trump announced A lawsuit was filed against pollster Ann Selzer over a botched poll that showed Vice President Kamala Harris winning Iowa by 4 points just before the election. Trump won the state by more than 10 points.
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