Former President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos, claiming his reputation was tarnished by the anchor saying multiple times on-air that Trump had been found liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
Trump filed the lawsuit in federal court in Miami on Monday over a viral interview between US Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Stephanopoulos on "This Week" on March 10, according to The Hill.
The suit takes aim at Stephanopoulos' questioning for saying Trump had been found "liable for rape" when a jury in a Manhattan civil case last year only found Trump liable for sexual abuse under New York law.
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In a 20-page complaint, Trump's attorney Alejandro Brito, accused Stephanopoulos of making the false statements "with actual malice or with a reckless disregard for the truth." The lawsuit claims the statements were distributed widely to third parties and repeated.
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"Indeed, the jury expressly found that Plaintiff did not commit rape and, as demonstrated below, Defendant George Stephanopoulos was aware of the jury's finding in this regard yet still falsely stated otherwise," Brito continued.
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ABC News declined to comment, while a rep for George Stephanopoulos did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Remember, Trump was just hit with an absurdly high judgment for having supposedly "defamed" fame chaser E. Jean Carroll by denying his own guilt.
Will NY courts decide that leftwing propagandists can state as fact that he's a rapist, in defiance of the jury decision they take so much pride in? Does the law of defamation only work to protect liberals in NY?
That's rhetorical, of course.
In related Trump news, mentally-ill shut-in Keith Olbermann openly wished for Trump's assassination on Twitter.
Keith Olbermann has sparked outrage by saying "there's always the hope" that former President Donald Trump will be treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated.
The former MSNBC host was reacting on X to a video clip reposted by President Biden's campaign HQ in which the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Lincoln and Andrew Jackson were treated the worst in their lifetimes -- while complaining that "nobody comes close to Trump."
"Trump says he has been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated," the Biden campaign account archly pointed out.
Olbermann responded: "There's always the hope."
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"Nothing to see here... Just Keith Olbermann openly wishing d*ath upon Trump," Libs of TikTok wrote.
Many argued that Olbermann should be booted from X for potentially violating the platform's terms of service, with some tagging owner Elon Musk.
"This account should be permanently suspended," one critic with 83,000 followers fumed.
Apparently the threat of being banned from the service he's addicted to worried the mentally-ill bent man, because he deleted the tweet and then lied about its clear meaning.
Olbermann appears to have deleted the message on his X account, which has more than 984,000 followers. He responded to the backlash by saying his "hope" was about Trump being treated badly.
"I'm hoping Trump's right, that he IS treated worse than Lincoln. As I've said for 9 years: THAT HE'S CONVICTED, THEN DIES IN PRISON," he wrote.
I know nobody with an IQ greater than a halibut's has believed @FoxNews since 1996 but even from their whores this is idiotic
The RT clearly shows I'm hoping Trump's right, that he IS treated worse than Lincoln. As I've said for 9 years: THAT HE'S CONVICTED, THEN DIES IN PRISON pic.twitter.com/pBRznpLNvD
-- Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 18, 2024
Trump should sue this shut-in, too. If not for this threat -- I'm not sure it can construed as a threat -- then for Olbermann's many libelous claims in the past.
In more Trump legal news: Trump has joined his co-defendants in appealing "Judge" McAfee's cowardly and corrupt decision to let the politician he donated to remain on the Trump prosecution.
"President Trump and seven defendants have jointly filed a motion requesting the Court to grant a certificate of immediate review of its Order denying dismissal of the case and disqualification of Fulton County DA Willis. The motion notes that the Court found that Willis' actions created an appearance of impropriety and an "odor of mendacity" that lingers in this case, but it nonetheless refused to dismiss the case or disqualify her. The motion further notes that the Court found Georgia case law lacks controlling precedent for the standard for disqualification of a prosecuting attorney for forensic misconduct. For these reasons among others, the Court's Order is ripe for pretrial appellate review."
Trump has also notified the New York Courts that he cannot free up $460+ million for "Tish" James' rogue prosecution. The law of New York states that he has to deliver over this half-billion dollars just to appeal the ruling forcing him to pay.
Legal experts are weighing in on Donald Trump's options after attorneys for the former president said he has not been able to secure a $464 million appeal bond he needs following a New York civil fraud judgment against him.
Trump's lawyers wrote in a Monday court filing that obtaining the nearly half-a-billion appeal was a "practical impossibility under the circumstances presented."
David Gelman, a criminal defense attorney and a former deputy district attorney, called the judgment a "unicorn." He argued that the judge should give Trump a lot more leeway to satisfy the bond because "not even the richest man in the world has $464 million lying around."
A New York Appeals Court judge denied Trump's request late last month to delay payment of the $464 million owed as a result of the lawsuit brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, but said he would temporarily allow the 2024 front-runner and his sons to continue running their business during the appeals process.
A New York Appeals Court judge previously ruled that the former president must post a bond for the full amount of the judgment and that an independent director of compliance will be appointed.
Finally: Nigel Farrage has been making an issue about non-prince Harry's emigration to the US. He wants to see Harry's visa applications, to find out if he lied about his history of drug use. Harry admits to using illegal drugs in his tawdry tell-some book Spare.
Farrage interviewed Trump and asked about this. Trump indicated that it's possible he'd look into the matter.
Former President Donald Trump has once again hinted that if he is re-elected president, Prince Harry may face deportation from the US if he is found to have lied about his drug use on his visa paperwork.
GB News' Nigel Farage asked Trump on Tuesday whether Prince Harry should have "special privileges" if it's discovered he lied on his visa application -- as the royal's immigration status has become embroiled in a legal battle after he admitted to taking illegal drugs in his memoir.
"No. We'll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied, they'll have to take appropriate action," Trump is quoted as saying in a preview of the interview.
Trump sat down in an interview with Nigel Farage of GN News, which will air Tuesday. GB News
When pressed on whether "appropriate action" might mean deportation, Trump did not provide a clear answer.
"Oh, I don't know. You'll have to tell me. You just have to tell me. You would have thought they would have known this a long time ago," the former president said.
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Trump, 77, has previously made comments about the Duke of Sussex's immigration status, warning that if he is re-elected in 2024, Prince Harry would be "on his own" following his "unforgivable" betrayal of Queen Elizabeth II.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., last month, Trump criticized President Biden's administration for being "too gracious" to the Sussexes ever since Harry and his American wife, Meghan Markle, moved to California in 2020.
"I wouldn't protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That's unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me," the former president told the Express, as he claimed Biden's administration had given the immigrant special privileges.
So, drug use generally makes you ineligible for a visa, but the Department of Homeland Security argues -- pitifully -- that maybe Harry was just lying in his book.
These are the people "protecting" the US.