Trump sues ABC network and journalist George Stephanopoulos for defamation

The former president of USA donald trump (2017-2021), future Republican Party candidate for the November elections, sued the network for defamation ABC and the journalist George Stephanopoulos for the comments he made about the writer’s case E. Jean Carroll.

According to the process, trump accuses Stephanopouloshost of the popular program ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos‘, for having falsely declared on several occasions that the former president had been found guilty of rape Carrol.

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The action, filed on Monday at Southern District Court of Floridaaccuses Stephanopoulos of making the statements maliciously and knowing they were false.

Last January, trump was sentenced by a judge New York pay a fine of 83.3 million dollars to Carrol for defaming her by saying in 2019 that he did not know her and that the sexual abuse allegations against him were false.

This case, resolved at the end of January, was the second against trump decided in favor of the writer.

Last May, a jury already convicted the former president of sexual abuse -inserting fingers into the vagina Carrol without consent in an episode that occurred in the nineties in the changing rooms of a department store – as well as for later defaming her, since pay him 5 million dollars.

Source: Elcomercio

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