The corporate media is running scared over concerns that ABC’s decision to settle a legal dispute with President-elect Donald J. Trump for $15 million means their false reporting could be subject to litigation as well. CNN‘s Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter blasted the settlement stemming from comments made by Clinton-operative-turned-journalist George Stephanopoulos, who repeatedly claimed during a March 10, 2024, broadcast that Trump was “found liable for rape.” However, a Manhattan jury found Trump was not liable for rape, but only for battery.
Acosta kicked off the segment lamenting about “this bending the knee going on,” asking Stelter: “Brian, this, I mean, this is pretty unusual and disturbing. What do you make of all this and this ugly legal fight that is trying to be avoided by ABC and Disney?”
“Right. Trump has a long history of filing lawsuits, including against news outlets. Most of the time, those cases get thrown out. Judges see right through those frivolous cases and throw them out,” Stelter replied, noting the prospect of legal discovery may have a motivating factor “because there might have been embarrassing emails or text messages on ABC servers that were going to become public.”
He continued: “So this might have been a case where ABC is avoiding public embarrassment by paying $15 million. But look, there’s a lot of people that say that payment is embarrassing as well. So this is not the end of the story.”
FEAR OF LITIGATION.
“Media lawyers are worried about this, they’re preparing for it,” Stelter told Acosta, adding: ” They are preparing their newsrooms for it with the expectation of more lawsuits, more leak investigations, more subpoenas in the months and years to come. You know, there’s a great AP story about this this morning saying there’s a balancing act right now for the press between being fearful and just being prepared, doing our jobs, but being aware of the climate.”
According to the CNN commentator, a source at ABC simply told him: “We needed this problem to go away.”
WATCH:
CNN’s Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter are playing the victim because ABC lied, got caught, and paid the price.
The media is blatantly arguing that they should not be held accountable for lying to you. pic.twitter.com/YllmqgUasf
— Media Lies (@MediasLies) December 16, 2024
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