Donald Trump took ABC to court and won $16M: Letters to the Editor Dec. 21, 2024
The Issue: President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuits against Disney, Gannett and other news outlets.ABC News agreed to settle a lawsuit from President-elect Donald Trump, paying $16 million over comments ABC’s George Stephanopoulos made about Trump and the writer E.Jean Carroll (“As Sleazy As ABC,” Dec.
19).Stephanopoulos incorrectly said Trump had been held liable for “raping” Carroll, when he’d been found liable for sexual assault.Stephanopoulos had not apologized.He was wrong but afraid to admit to what he in fact did — which is costing Disney, ABC’s parent company, millions of dollars.Harold FishmanManhattanPresident-elect Trump should use the $16 million to create a section of his presidential library exclusively dedicated to fake news — with a big picture of Stephanopoulos front and center.This will serve as a permanent record for all to see — an example of fake-news reporters and the bias they spewed to further their own agenda and interfere with the election.Marty SendlewskiRiverheadAnd you all thought that the mainstream media reported factual news, didn’t you?Well, guess what: Now, after Donald Trump won a $16 million settlement, we safely say that they are as corrupt as ever.Ron ZajicekCortlandABC News and George Stephanopoulos have been exposed for the calculating disinformation propagators that they and other legacy media outlets truly are.For the last nine years, the apparent objective of the mainstream press has been to keep non-stop negative reporting in the public eye, hoping it would sway viewers against Trump.While the president-elect is still very much in the headlines, the media’s plan seems to be backfiring, since the latest court decisions — including the Fani Willis decision — have turned the media’s “lemonade” into “sour lemons.”Jerry ChiappettaMonticelloIf my former boss told me not to do something, and I did it anyway, I would be fired for insubordination.
Not so for Stephanopoulos, who used the word...