Summary
Legal experts, including former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, criticized ABC News for settling Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit for $15 million, calling it “far from normal.”
The lawsuit stemmed from anchor George Stephanopoulos’ claim that Trump was “found liable for rape” in the E. Jean Carroll case.
While New York law defines rape narrowly, Judge Lewis Kaplan noted, “In other words, [Trump] in fact did ‘rape’ Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York Penal Law.”
Critics questioned why ABC settled early, suggesting political deference to Trump.
They are obeying in advance. Looks like we are in Germany circa 1933.
Across the board with everything from tech to media.
Pathetic.Kiss the ring. Bend the knee. Grovel for your dictator.
They know what’s about to happen to them, and they’re allowing it to happen early, before he even takes power. Don’t support these collaborators.
I don’t, the current events made me send recurring donations for ProPublica and NPR. I also plan to subscribe to a local newspaper that still looks like it has an integrity.
The same reason media won’t ask the obvious follow-up questions: “we CaN’T lOsE aCcESs!”
Can you imagine the badge of fucking honor they’ll have if anyone stands up to Trump and causes the network to lose their White House credentials, or their broadcasting license?!
But noooooo. The business of news comes first, this we must uphold shareholder value.
I wonder if this is just the new way to legally pay off Trump q? Anyone who sues immediately settles for large sums of money. You can’t even question it, because it’s how the legal system is supposed to work.
Foreign governments and corporations can pay him off just as easily and blatantly as domestic ones.
Basically he purchased himself a TV station and he got all other TV stations for free. Yeah, we’re screwed.
Of course it isn’t normal but when you have a sitting president said to the county that he didn’t trust the Justice system, that the system is political, and then selfishly pardoned his own son, well I guess we have a new normal now.
And it’s all Biden’s fault, of course! 😂 Trump can do no wrong, even in the Lemmy comment section. Unbelievable.
Yup, good to know people on Lemmy are just as shit as reddit when they can’t wrap their heads outside of their ‘go team’ mentality and realize that criticism of someone they like isn’t saying the trump is a good person with no blame.
Pathetic.
Bruh, Biden’s not even my president and I’m not American. If you read carefully, you’ll realize I’m saying you don’t need to blame anything on Biden because his pardons have nothing to do with what Trump is doing now. Trump is doing what Trump does regardless of what Biden does. The whole premise of Trump’s political career is breaking precedent.
The mouse has no soul, this is just the cost of doing business. Absolutely no one should be surprised.
Critics questioned why ABC settled early, suggesting political deference to Trump.
I’m not sure I blame them. After seeing the long list of cronies Trump is planning to install in government leadership on day 1, and the rhetoric he has been throwing around about punishing his detractors… I certainly would not want to be actively involved in any sort of legal dispute with the man right now.
This is like the textbook definition of, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
(Not that I actually believe it’s good men making these decisions)
Seems there is a whole lot of nothing going on right now.
When we unite we are stronger than him. Pressure works. That’s why ABC should not have settled.
You should go watch a video on what happens when you appease Hitler.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=appeasing+hitler+-+youtube&ko=-1&iax=videos&ia=videos
