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USA | ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit (apnews.com)

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ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.664183/gov.uscourts.flsd.664183.58.1.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump can't be held liable. For some fucking reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agreeing to pay and actually paying are two separate things. Trump owes literally millions in debts he's promised to pay and just doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

No one is holding him accountable

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It wasn't inaccurate.