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ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump's presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit
ABC News has agreed to settle a defamation lawsuit over inaccurate on-air assertions by anchor George Stephanopoulos.
apnews.com
I think I'm right about this, but somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
The defamation lawsuit was basically a bizarre twist of logic in which this woman accused Trump of rape, sometime in the early 90's; he denied it and either expressly or implicitly called her a liar. She sued Trump for slander for calling her a liar. The Statute of imitations had long ago expired for a sexual assault tort case.
In the civil case, she was able to convince the jury that her accusation was sort-of true...that he had in fact "sexually assaulted" her, which in this case meant that she accused him of putting his finger(s) where they did not belong, and they believed her.
At the conclusion of the case, the judge characterized the jury's finding, saying that they had found that he had "raped" her, taking the absurd position that placing one's fingers into a woman's private part was commonly considered "rape."
It was this characterization that Steffy based his line of questioning on. But it is almost too obvious that NOBODY deems forced finger-fukking to be "rape."
I have heard more than one newscaster saying today that this settlement was agreed to because the jury did not find that Trump had "sexually assaulted" her. But that is not correct. They DID find that he sexually assaulted her; just not that he RAPED her.
It is a bit complicated, but not that complicated.
