ABC News agrees settlement with Donald Trump over defamation claim

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ABC News agrees settlement with Donald Trump over defamation claim
President-elect Donald Trump (Aaron Chown/PA)

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

As part of the settlement made public on Saturday, ABC News posted an editor’s note to its website expressing regret over Mr Stephanopoulos’ statements during a March 10 segment on his This Week programme.

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