ABC News will give $15mn to Donald Trump’s future presidential foundation and museum to settle a defamation suit against the network for on-air comments made by George Stephanopoulos, one of its star anchors, in a rare legal win for the president-elect against the news media.
As part of the settlement, the network also agreed to add an editor’s note at the bottom of a March article online expressing ABC and the anchor’s “regret” over what he said during an interview with Nancy Mace, a member of the US House of Representatives from South Carolina.
“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 network agreed to say. ABC is owned by Walt Disney Co.