ABC agrees to present $15 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle lawsuit : NPR

President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance attend an Military-Navy school soccer recreation at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Md., on Saturday.

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NEW YORK — ABC Information has agreed to pay $15 million to Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been discovered civilly responsible for the rape of a author. E. Jean Carroll.

In accordance with settlement paperwork made public on Saturday, ABC will even submit a be aware on its web site expressing remorse over the declare in a March 10 phase relating to Stephanopoulos. this week program and paid $1 million in authorized charges to Trump’s attorneys.

“We’re happy that the events have reached an settlement to dismiss the lawsuit in keeping with the phrases contained within the court docket submitting,” ABC Information stated in an announcement.

Trump sued Stephanopoulos and ABC for defamation days after the broadcaster claimed throughout an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., that Trump had been “discovered accountable for rape,” which misstated the rulings within the two lawsuits Carroll filed towards him.

Final 12 months, Trump was convicted of sexual assault and defamation of Carroll, and was ordered to pay her $5 million. In January, he was discovered liable for added defamation claims and ordered to pay Carroll $83.3 million. Trump is interesting each rulings.

Neither ruling included a discovering of rape as outlined below New York legislation.

The choose in each circumstances, Lewis Kaplan, stated the jury’s conclusion was that Carroll didn’t show that Trump raped her “throughout the slender technical that means of a specific part of the New York Penal Code.”

Kaplan famous that the definition of rape was “a lot narrower” than how rape is outlined in widespread fashionable language, in some dictionaries, in some federal and state legal codes and elsewhere.

The choose stated the ruling didn’t imply that Carroll “didn’t show that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many individuals usually perceive the phrase ‘rape’. The truth is… the jury discovered that Mr. Trump did simply that.”