Earlier this week, President-elect Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against ABC News and its anchor George Stephanopoulos for making inaccurate statements on air about the verdict in a civil lawsuit against Trump by E. Jean Carroll. Won a defamation lawsuit.
The network agreed to pay $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential library and $1 million in Trump's legal costs. He also issued a public apology.
Other news outlets that have made similar disparaging statements about Trump are now biting their nails and anxiously anticipating which network will come next.
One of those news organizations is CNN.
“CNN's Jake Tapper is very concerned that this isn't the end of President Trump's media pursuit,” Dave Rubin said as he played a clip of Tapper, who once worked at ABC. Dress your concerns like brightly colored clothing. .
“ABC News this weekend agreed to pay $16 million, including legal fees, to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Mr. Trump against the station and anchor George Stephanopoulos,” Tapper said. .
“Obviously, this is not the end of this… legal campaign against the media,” he added, calling this “absolutely ridiculous.”
CNN contributor Kristen Holmes added: “Donald Trump is emboldened and emboldened by this settlement with ABC, which many never thought would happen.”
“Tapper is obviously concerned because he was one of the leading liars about Trump on CNN,” Dave says. “He looked over there, saw his old employer, ABC News, and said, 'Oh, shit.'
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