Former President Trump has just sued ABC News and This Week host George Stephanopoulos for defaming him with a phony accusation of rape.

This happened in the ridiculous interview we posted between Stephanopoulos and Nancy Mace over a week ago, where Stephanopoulos tried to get Mace to disavow Trump because she herself had been a victim of rape in the past.

Here’s more via the New York Post:

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.

“Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape. How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw? ” Stephanopoulos asked during the interview.

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.”

“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.

The former president asked for an unspecified amount of damages in the lawsuit.

I hope he nails them for a lot of money, but I won’t get my hopes up. Things just don’t often seem to go Trump’s way when he’s the victim of defamation. But boy do they when he’s the one being sued. Ugh.