Below is my column on Fox.com on the settlement of ABC News of the defamation case brought by President-elect Donald Trump. The settlement has enflamed many on the left as well as reportedly some at ABC News. However, ABC likely saw this as a no-win situation as it faced potentially embarrassing depositions.
Here is the column:
The late Richard J. Daley famously declared that “we as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.”
That doctrine seems still to be alive and well with many in the party when it comes to President-elect Donald Trump. After ABC News and its anchor George Stephanopoulos apologized to Trump this week to settle a defamation lawsuit, many Democrats were apoplectic.
Marc Elias, the controversial lawyer involved in the funding of the infamous Steele dossier by the Clinton campaign, denounced ABC News for bending a knee to Trump. He then trolled for contributions for his own organization as “unapologetically pro-democracy.”
Of course, ABC was not apologizing for advancing democracy but for alleged defamation. The network and the anchor expressed “regret” for stating that Trump was found “liable for rape” in a New York civil case. (The jury found that Trump had sexually abused and defamed E. J. Carroll). While Trump was never convicted of rape, Stephanopoulos repeated the claim ten times in his interview with Re. Nancy Mace, (R., S.C.).
What made the settlement interesting is that ABC was previously relying on the statements of the judge in the New York case, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who declared that the charge of rape was “substantially true…as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’”
Stephanopoulos played up his defiance of Trump with CBS’s late-night host Stephen Colbert. To the delight of Colbert, who regularly attacked Trump on his show and openly supported both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Stephanopoulos proclaimed that he wouldn’t be “cowed out of doing my job because of a threat.” He added, “Trump sued me because I used the word ‘rape,’ even though a judge said that’s in fact what did happen. We filed a motion to dismiss.”
So what happened?
Well, two things and both are related to the timing of the settlement.
First, the settlement came just before ABC and Stephanopoulos were to be called for depositions, as ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette M. Reid.
That discovery was likely to prove more embarrassing for the network than it would Trump and could have revealed internal messages on the controversy.
The danger is on full display in another courtroom where CNN has been losing critical motions in a defamation case where punitive damages could result. Anchor Jake Tapper and CNN are being sued by Navy veteran Zachary Young after falsely suggesting that he and his organization were exploiting desperate Afghan refugees. Discovery uncovered malicious and unprofessional emails from producers promising to “nail” Young and making the segment his “funeral.” Disney was not eager to put its matinee personality, Stephanopoulos, through a similar meat grinder.
Second, the settlement occurred after an election in which Trump won the trifecta of the White House, Congress, and the popular vote.
Like most media, ABC was known for its unrelenting attacks on Trump and favorable coverage toward his opponents. The network’s iconic show, The View, has become an unhinged, partisan rave session against Trump, Republicans, and the majority of American voters. The show’s hosts now regularly read retractions or corrections to blunt allegedly defamatory screeds from its hosts. It has gotten to the point that the ABC General Counsel may soon need a chair at the table.
Disney is trying to adopt a more neutral stance after years of opposition for its stances on political issues and accusations of ultra-woke products. It is still struggling to appeal to over half of the country, including the most recent controversy involving the star of its soon-to-be-released remake of Snow White.
After the election, actress Rachel Zegler declared herself “speechless” over the results. That would have been a welcomed state for Disney, but the actress then found her voice in the most polarizing way, publicly praying “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.” Zegler was clearly miscast in the film. It was the evil Queen that was supposed to harken “a blast of wind to fan my hate.”
On top of these controversies, ABC News was attacked by many over its handling of the Trump debate with Vice President Kamala Harris and it’s biased “fact-checking.”
With networks like MSNBC and CNN in a ratings and revenue free fall after the election, Disney clearly wants to start fresh with the new administration. Both are facing possible sales at potentially bargain basement prices.
The media echo chamber against Trump failed spectacularly in this election. With record levels of distrust of mainstream or legacy media, the public has increasingly shifted to new media.
In the meantime, Trump has been running the table on lawfare with the dismissal of the two federal cases and a victory on presidential immunity in the Supreme Court. The Georgia prosecution is falling apart over the conduct of the prosecutors rather than that of the defendant. The New York civil case faced a highly skeptical court over the grotesque award against Trump and his corporation.
Even Democratic politicians like Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) now feel comfortable admitting publicly that the New York hush money prosecution was “bullsh*t.”
For many politicians and pundits, the election seemed to flip the magnetic poles of the country. We now have ABC News giving millions to the Trump Presidential Library as democratic donors move toward a boycott of the Biden President Library.
With networks like MSNBC and CNN struggling for their very existence, ABC is intent on having a chair when the music stops. While the ABC settlement may not be an admission of guilt, it is a recognition of the reality after this historic election.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
>> (The jury found that Trump had sexually abused and defamed E. J. Carroll). <<
This framing needs to be retired. All you can say is that the jury voted to hold Trump liable.
In today's world, you can NOT take for granted that the jurors were interested in objective truth, or that they returned a fair verdict based on the law, facts, and evidence. All you have to do is see the many people willing to go on social media to rationalize the premeditated, cold blooded, execution of a man shot in the back while peacefully walking down the street a few days ago.
So no. I don't agree that the jury necessarily "found" that Trump sexually abused Carroll. That implies they considered the evidence, facts and law and returned a fair and impartial verdict. I do not believe that happened. The jury voted to hold Trump liable. I wish they were equivalent statements. But they are not.
@Anonymous
>>>I don’t agree that the jury necessarily “found” that Trump sexually abused Carroll. That implies they considered the evidence, facts and law and returned a fair and impartial verdict.<<<
True but it was my impression the jury found Trump guilty of abuse for lashing out (or suggesting she was crazy?) in his response to allegations, not that he had ever actually physically abused her at the time of the alleged incident. This with zero evidence the event ever took place at all. (Similar in my mind to cries of obstruction for a crime never committed.) The jury found Trump liable for what is essentially free speech and fairly applied analysis, in one's own defense, particularly so since there appeared not one iota of truth to, or anything to substantiate, her allegations. And then this crazy judge had the gall to retry and convict Trump in one fell swoop in stating that, yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Carroll. This is not justice in America. And it's not kangaroo court or just a clown show either, what it is is political persecution. And every last one of these political blow boys and blow toys should be charged with civils rights violations.
Turley, much respect, but he often appears focused on keeping the peace. There can be no peace until all of these rabid morally bankrupt dogs actively destroying the American Way are driven entirely from American politics. It's either that or we as a nation of last refuge will not survive.
Chicago? The Obama political machine? Destroy them!
ABC took a similar approach to what Turley’s employer decided: they opted to settle rather than go to trial, where embarrassing and damaging information could be revealed. However, ABC’s settlement amount is nowhere near Fox News’ massive $787 million settlement for knowingly defaming Dominion. It’s also important to note that Smartmatic’s ongoing defamation case is still pending, and Turley has been notably quiet about it. Newsmax has already settled with Smartmatic, but depositions are still outstanding for Fox News in the Smartmatic lawsuit.
The question remains: Will Fox News settle for a similar amount, or will they choose to go to trial? I expect Turley will keep us updated on the Smartmatic defamation case against Fox News for supporting Trump’s false claims of voter fraud.
ABC took a similar approach to what Turley’s employer decided:
When was the GW University (his W-2 employer) sued? Stop embarrassing yourself and learn the difference between W-2 and 1099 income.
OLLY,
He is not that smart to learn the difference.
Peter Shill is pissed xe/xer/dem didn’t get paid the millions of dollars Oprah, Beyonce, race baiter Al Sharpton, PETA, Planned Barrendhood, Trans-R-Us LLC, et al got paid to troll for Camel-uh
” Planned Barrendhood” which leads to planned Democrat Extinction.
Olly, Turley regularly shows up on Fox News, and publishes columns on Fox News. It’s obvious he has a contract with Fox News to appear on camera whenever they need legal commentary or “expert” legal opinion. He’s an employee essentially. He even discloses that he is a legal contributor for Fox News when he writes columns mentioning Fox News.
“Jonathan Turley is a Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. “
https://www.foxnews.com/person/t/jonathan-turley
“Individual contributors are employees responsible for performing tasks or functions within the company without the authority to manage other employees.”
https://honehq.com/glossary/individual-contributor/\\
So yes, Turley is an employee of Fox News.
So does he receive a W-2 or a 1099-NEC?
Olly, Fox News, Fox….News. He’s also employed by Fox News as a legal contributor. An individual contributor is a paid employee who also has a contract. Turley often mentions that he is a regular contributor to Fox News and often goes on camera to offer his legal opinions whenever Fox News wants an “expert” legal opinion on a Fox News narrative or segment. It’s not a full-time gig, I’m sure, but nevertheless, he’s still legally an employee.
George: I guess Professor Turley is an employee of quite a few entities, yes?
(-And this in addition to his being an employee of GWU):
“Professor Turley also appears regularly as a legal expert on all of the major television networks. Since the 1990s, he has
worked under contract as the on-air Legal Analyst for NBC News and CBS News to cover stories that ranged from the Clinton impeachment to the presidential elections. Professor Turley has been a repeated guest on Sunday talk shows with over two-dozen appearances on Meet the Press, ABC This Week, Face the Nation, and Fox Sunday. ”
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/108974/witnesses/HHRG-116-JU10-Bio-TurleyJ-20190228.pdf
(Are you familiar with DOL’s six-factor test?)
Lin,
Okay, I give and will ask the question for the rest of the class, what is the DOL’s six-factor test?
who are you, little twit, to establish or ascertain the motive behind Fox News’ settlement? Please start labeling your posts as opinions unless you cite your sources.
They settled because they were likely to lose. Depositions from multiple Fox News personalities would expose the network to damaging admissions. Concerned about the potential harm to their brand, they opted for a settlement. Legal experts noted that everyone was expecting the trial and its implications. By settling, Fox avoided higher punitive damages and reputational damage, making it the more sensible choice.
Source; google is you friend.
“By settling, Fox avoided higher punitive damages and reputational damage, making it the more sensible choice. Source; google is you friend.”
Really???? Exact same Google who told you, Dennis and Gigi the illegal “Trump-Russia Dossier” was verified intelligence agency evidence? Four years later the friendly Google that said 51 intelligence agency experts were assuring voters that the Biden Bribery Laptop was just Russian election campaign disinformation? Same “Google is your friend”????
George: you are an empty windsock indicating the direction of the gale of Democrat lies, the lead voice in the chorus of hyper-aggressive Democrat liars.
Georgie… any particular reason Fox shouldn’t have believed they’d get the same results as Rachael Maddow got a few months earlier, when a judge tossed the defamation lawsuit from a competing network defamed by repeated claims they were paid by Putin?
Georgie… did Fox believe the “equal justice for all” schtick and believe the lawsuit against them would be thrown out for the exact same reason the lawsuit against Maddow and her network was earlier tossed out? Particularly when the defamation was from guests of the show – not their hosts who were the equivalent of Maddow?
Google isn’t your friend, Georgie: sometimes Google presents grains of truth if you dig deep enough.
Nor is the truth your friend. You and the truth have been sworn enemies since you first started running away from it when you got a keyboard or (depending on which came first) started voting for Clinton, Obama, Clinton again, and later Biden.
George, your lies are so obvious that, if brains were fuel, you couldn’t drive an R/C car a single lap around a Cheerio.
Old Airborne Dog
Watching the demise of MSM like CNN, ABC, MSNBC has got to be one of the greatest gifts we can watch and see for this Christmas!!!
Yes sir! It’s like Christmas came early and we are being blessed with a bottomless stocking.
OLLY,
Oh, reading about the loss of audience for MSM, or that The View has to read a legal note five seconds after they say something that is untrue is indeed a joy! Makes me smile!
Demise? What world do you live in?
Just “Another Brick In The Wall.”
👏👏👏👏👏
Harry Litman (mentioned here a few days ago), Democrat lawyer, former Clinton Deputy Attorney General for Bill Clinton, and Professor Turley’s colleague as a member of the Washington DC Bar Association is really fired up over the Stephanopoulos/ABC surrendering and paying for their defamation.
Washington DC Democrat lawyers like Litman, Barbara McQuade, Marc Elias, etc are the source of Dennis’s claims today that Trump’s enemy list of journalists he wants to take out is real. Professor Turley might want to talk to his colleagues at their Bar Association about that the next time they’re all together sharing a collegial drink at the bar.
Liberals unload on ABC’s settlement with Trump, defend George Stephanopoulos: ‘Knee bent, ring kissed’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberals-unload-abcs-settlement-trump-defend-george-stephanopoulos-knee-bent-ring-kissed
Host Barbara McQuade said ” And I think it sends a bad signal to other media enterprises, it might have a chilling effect or self-censoring effect on the media, as they cover the Trump administration.
LA Times legal columnist Harry Litman said during the MSNBC appearance on Saturday “My big worry to put a finer point on what Barb is saying is it is somehow caught up in the fact he will be president soon. Given the timing, he is on a roll and a roll, that is really unsettling in terms of public confidence in the criminal justice system and media confidence, and who is left after the media to tell the truth, that he will come after them, make their lives miserable, and it has been successful so far,” Litman added.
“This seems quite targeted, and I don’t think George Stephanopoulos was wrong. I’m sorry,” MSNBC host Symone Sanders said during their conversation on the network on Saturday.
Old Airborne Dog
PMS-NBC and their reprobates is well named for the lot of ‘em.
Harris tells DNC staffers after devastating layoffs, ‘our spirit will not be defeated; we will not be burdened by what has been’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-tells-dnc-staffers-after-devastating-layoffs-our-spirit-not-defeated
DNC staffers were let go without severance packages after Election Day.
Vice President Kamala Harris tried to encourage Democratic staffers facing layoffs from the DNC on Sunday, telling them that their “spirit will not be defeated.”
Harris made the comments during the DNC’s holiday celebration in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. She spoke alongside President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the event, which played host to staffers who were let go from the DNC without severance packages after the election.
“This holiday season, like any time of the year, let us really be conscious of all the blessings we have. Let us celebrate the blessings we have; let us celebrate and advance the blessings we have yet to create,” Harris said. “And let us always remember our country is worth fighting for, and our spirit will not be defeated.”
Imagine that! Wealthy Democrat communists like Round Heels Harris, Biden White House Crime LLC can’t find enough “equity” to Pay Their Fair Share towards even the smallest severance package for their fired DNC political operatives.
The fired DNC political staffers claim that Trump’s greed has infected the Biden’s, Harris & Emholf, and the DNC itself.
“We find it very cruel that DNC management is trying to claim that layoffs are just part of the job,” a DNC union member who wished to remain anonymous told Mother Jones. “And we feel strongly that losing an election has not absolved the organization of its responsibility to treat its workers with basic dignity.”
Old Airborne Dog
I loved the column today. The fact that it was dripping with sarcasm made it even better and juicier. Even I know (as a non lawyer) that discovery can be a knife right through your case. Having been the target of medical malpractice cases (as many doctors are these days) I came to know the ends and outs of discovery very well.
It can alter your research when you are preparing for a case by learning to leave as few footprints as possible for the other side to track.
The other thing I have noted about these Trump cases in New York and elsewhere is that they are the legal equivalent of a free for all compared to court cases in my area of the country. The E.J. Carroll Case, the Stormy Daniels NDA case and the Business case with it’s 1/2 billion dollar fine are such obvious sham cases and trials that you have difficulty believing that legitimate courts (so to speak) in NYC continue to allow them to proceed. It is an embarrassment to the state and NYC and would push me to leave the state immediately since it’s obvious the the City and State has no interest in protecting all it’s citizens.
GEB,
Well said and spot on!!
A more entertaining version of ABC, Disney, and Stephanopoulis’s cowardly surrender to avoid having to defend their defamation in court.
Sine Qua Non Sequitur — The Trump Train Runs Over George Stephanopoulos
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2024/12/16/the-morning-briefing-good-times-the-trump-train-runs-over-george-stephanopoulos-n4935158
George Stephanopoulos is one of the worst of the Dem hack propagandists in the MSM, maybe even the worst. He’s part of the revolving door between the media and former Dem party operatives. He’s been poisoning the well since he left the Clinton White House in the ’90s. I haven’t monitored everything that he’s said on the air, but there is a very real possibility that none of it is truthful. He’s so awful that he was booed while moderating a 2012 Republican primary because he asked Mitt Romney if he would ban birth control if he were elected president.
He’s a hack’s hack.
The Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media have been have been working to undermine the Constitution for decades and most Republicans in Washington have been letting them get away with it.
Donald Trump doesn’t play that way.
I believe she received $84 MM. I’m not a Trump fan but I have a hard time believing the case. It smells like the false allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. Any high profile male could be treated in the same way in New York. I would avoid it.
There was no evidence that it ever happened, and she couldn’t remember when. She recalled wearing a dress that wasn’t in existence until years later. Her story appears to have been based on a TV show plot that also appeared years later.
Daniel,
Well said. The whole case was a farce. Anyone with any degree of common sense could see right through it.
I feel cheated. It should have been $787 million.
Professor Turley: the political porn star and brown bomber, Vice President DEI Hire, regularly called President Trump a convicted rapist throughout her abject failure of an election campaign.
Inquiring minds want to know: can Trump’s lawyers bring similar defamation proceedings against the failed Woke presidential candidate, Cackles Harris?
And given that she’s now millions of dollars in debt and hasn’t yet gotten the opportunity to start cashing in after politics on the speech and book signing circuit, would American taxpayers be on the hook to pay her legal defense team’s costs?
Jonathan: yet again you are engaging in distractions to avoid discussing the dangers of DJT in the White House for another four years. Now he is discussing attacking Iran; more likely to start WWIII than the war he laid the groundwork for in Ukraine.
This lawsuit shows American voters two things. First, as those of us in law would term it, this is prima facie evidence that DJT does in fact have an enemies list with many of America’s best investigative journalists at the top of it. Since leaving politics for journalism, George Stephanopoulos has been instrumental in exposing DJTs many crimes. DJT will not tolerate criticism and that put Stephanopoulos on DJT’s enemy list. The only reason Stephanopoulos agreed to settle and deleted his account on Elon Musk’s “X” was to spare his two young daughters the stigma of being pursued by DJT’s lawyers and MAGA supporters with this frivilous lawsuit.
Second, this defamation lawsuit being allowed to proceed shows just how corrupt the Florida judicial system has become. This lawsuit would never have survived the first minute if it had been brought in the legitimate courts of New York or Washington DC. This judicial proceeding, along with another Florida court arbitrarily dismissing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal indictments against Trump is all the evidence Americans need to see how DJT corrupts everything he touches, including our American justice system and equal justice for all.
The next four years are going to be a terrible period of lawfare, as DJT uses his Attorney General and FBI Director to investigate and try to jail every politician, journalist, and protest group that stands against his corruption. And what he can’t do by using the Department of Justice, he will do with ruinous lawsuits against those on his enemies list in the third world corrupt courts of Florida. More on this in my next post, Jonathan, as you continue fulfilling your role of providing cover for DJT.
“This lawsuit would never have survived the first minute in…”
You know nothing about the law, you’rejust an armchair bigmouth.
“DJT”‘a many crimes? It’s a little weird then that Fat Al and Merchan had to make up crimes to get him convicted. You’d have thunk that the could have used one of the real ones.
This is hilarious. The media has done nothing but cover for anyone on the Left for 8 years. All those crimes that George supposedly uncovered only existed in the minds of Never Trumpers. We have been closer to WW3 since the Biden Administration took over than ever before. By whomever was actually calling the shots, because we all know it wasn’t the story teller in chief who could find his way back to the front door.
Right on Dennis, corrupt lawsuits should only be allowed to proceed in NY, and only against defendants named Trump. Come on, what state wouldn’t allow a defamation case to proceed based upon an event that allegedly occurred 30yrs ago?
Dennis is become so desperate, he is now lying out right that Trump ” laid the groundwork for in Ukraine.” We all know it was Putin and Russia and the whole world saw how weak, mentally incompetent Biden was, emboldening Russia, Iran, terrorists to set the world on fire under the Biden admin. That is why our enemies like Russia, Iran, China, terrorists all wanted Harris to win and Trump to lose. A weak Harris admin, like the weak Biden admin, benefits them the most.
Dennis, you proclaim to be some kind of intellect, tell us, why would Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and China possibly been using ActBlue, a major Democrat fundraising resource, to make political donations? Why would our adversaries be donating to Democrats? Could it be they fear Trump? Or that a just as weak as the Biden admin, a Harris admin would benefit them too?
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-pledges-refer-actblue-fundraising-probe-incoming-trump-justice
Dear Mr. Turley, thanks to you for another great article. The Left-wing media is to blame for the anger in the country today. They repeat what their counterparts in the media “report”. They have taken a page from the Nazi’s: if a lie is repeated often enough, it will become truth. Adam Schiff STILL believes the Russian collusion lie. What he enjoyed most of all was the spotlight it placed him in. I don’t think this payout will change any minds at ABC or any other legacy media. They are simply too entrenched in their hatred for Mr. Trump and those of us who have voted for him.
Mass Panic, Turmoil, Hate, etc. by Main Street Media towards Trump continues. They still can’t accept they did not influence the election and got their chosen one Elected, Kamila??? They can’t accept that Social Media, X, Tick Tok, Influencers were the Key along with Biden’s Admin terrible policies and hatred of 50% of the population. They hate Trump continues to Win. MSNBC/CNN are becoming irrelevant. They both need to fire their entire staff and rebuild with fresh new faces and new leadership. they need to return to being real News vs Left Wing Radical staff and policies. Next law suits are CBS, CNN, both not in friendly Left Wing Courts. MSNBC may be nest to be sued by Trump?
Exactly!
George Stephanopoulos is a filthy Democrat dwarf who has become rich by defaming women who were sexually assaulted and raped by Bill Clinton while running his ‘Clinton War Room’ to handle his victims the Clinton’s laughed at as “bimbo eruptions”. No words of defamation were too vile for Stephanopoulos to use while destroying Clinton’s victims. He was sued, with the equally filthy pervert James Carville, for defamation by Jennifer Flowers when he attacked her as ‘just trailer trash’ regarding Clinton raping her. Both escaped trial.
Democrats are vile. Every single one of them working in some aspect of politics. Full stop.
This time Stephanopoulos did not escape. This time ABC and Stephanopoulos were so terrified of having him sit to be deposed and Trump getting access to Stephanopoulos’s emails, texts, and messages that they eagerly settled out of court by paying the $15 million.
And they joined their fellow political whore Stormy Daniels: they both have been forced to pay Trump’s legal defenses for the defamation lawsuits.
Gigi also likes to scream Trump is a convicted rapist in her daily screeds. If Stephanopoulos and all the lawyers defending his and ABC’s filth can go down, does Gigi believe she’s so completely insignificant that she can continue saying whatever she wants?
Old Airborne Dog.
“Ain’t they sweet!”.
MSM in turmoil. Don’t you just hate to see it?
“(The jury found that Trump had sexually abused and defamed E. J. Carroll).” The jury found this on exactly zero evidence. Not only did E. J. Carroll not have any evidence, but they changed the statute of limitations for one year just to prosecute Trump. She could not give an exact time, just a range of possible years that this took place. The dress she claimed to have worn that day and was posted on the cover of a magazine had not even been designed in that time range. She had no witnesses. She is exactly what Trump said she is, a nut case. She calls one of her pets Tit, and another Vagina. She claimed to a talk show host that many people find rape sexually exciting. And there have been other examples of her always talking about sex. If this doesn’t shout of collusion to trap Trump, I don’t know what does. Wonder how much she was paid. Logically thinking about this, Trump was always rich, well known, and as a young man not bad looking. It is doubtful he went into the store shopping to begin with, and to physically abuse someone near by in a dressing room is beyond the scope of possibilities. It wouldn’t surprise me if women threw themselves at him because of his money, and she would be a prime candidate. But there is NO PROOF ANYTHING HAPPENED! None! The Left wants to believe it, so it appears.
A few more problems. Her case, and probably the NYS bill of attainder, was funded by leftist mega-donor, Reid Hoffman. Carroll was a writer and “sex-columnist” who alleged that she had been “raped” by numerous other men over the years, but none of them was named Trump. Trump was a multi-millionaire NYC playboy at the time that was dating models, if Trump attacked her in a dept store changing room, it would have been national news.
and probably the NYS bill of attainder,
There was no “bill of attainder”. You’re as much a liar as Carroll is.
they changed the statute of limitations for one year just to prosecute Trump.
No, they didn’t. You’re in no position to criticize Carroll’s lies when you tell lies of your own.
Yes, they did change that law. And you lying to say that never happened puts you right up there with Stephanopoulos.
They did NOT change any law “just to prosecute Trump”. Or even to sue him. No law was ever changed with Trump in mind. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar, and just as bad as Carroll.
progressives will one thing from this settlement: always preface the statement “Trump committed rape” with “the judge said”
The judge needs to be impeached, but it being NY, it will probably be nominated to Chief Justices of the BY supreme court.