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Under current law, it is just about impossible to defame a public figure, let alone a politician, let alone Donald Trump. But ABC News and George Stephanopoulos managed the feat, and now they are going to pay:

ABC News and star anchor George Stephanopoulos have agreed to pay President-elect Trump $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit.

The settlement was publicly filed Saturday, just days before the two sides were set to sit for depositions in the case.

Stephanopoulos couldn’t testify under oath without being humiliated.

ABC News agreed to pay a $15 million donation to a “Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for [Trump], as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past,” along with $1 million for Trump’s attorney fees, according to the settlement.

ABC News and Stephanopoulos also would issue statements expressing their “regret” to the online article version of the anchor’s March interview that prompted Trump to file the federal lawsuit earlier this year, the settlement noted.

“ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024,” the apology would read, according to the settlement agreement.

That statement was negotiated word by word. Note that it doesn’t specifically admit that what ABC News reported was false.

Trump slapped ABC and Stephanopoulos with a lawsuit in Miami federal court after the network star incorrectly said multiple times Trump was “found liable for rape” during a “This Week” interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).

This relates to the defamation case filed against Trump by Jean Carroll, in which Carroll absurdly claimed that Trump had raped her, decades ago, in a changing room at the Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan, just a few feet away from hundreds of people passing by. In fact, the jury specifically found that Trump did not rape Carroll:

ABC News lies frequently. It is good to see them get nailed at least once.