ABC News represents everything wrong with the mainstream media.
Americans are starting to wise up as Donald Trump fights back in court.
And Megyn Kelly revealed the smoking gun that will bring down ABC News.
Megyn Kelly mocks ABC for surrendering in defamation lawsuit
ABC stunned the media and political world by waving the white flag of surrender in Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit.
Trump sued ABC and star anchor George Stephanopoulos after Stephanopoulos repeatedly said a jury found Trump “liable for rape” in a March 2024 interview with RINO Congresswoman Nancy Mace.
In fact, a jury specifically said on the verdict form in the E.J. Carroll case that it didn’t find Trump “liable for rape” by checking a box marked “no.”
The network agreed to pay Donald Trump a $16 million settlement.
$15 million went towards Donald Trump’s Presidential library.
ABC also paid $1 million in attorney’s fees to Trump.
NBC’s Chuck Todd called the settlement a “gut punch” as left-wing pundits and journalists now realized they would face accountability for lying about Trump.
Megyn Kelly told listeners on her show that what prompted the settlement was the judge in the case ordering ABC to turn over all relevant text messages and emails from Stephanopoulos and other network executives.
This would allow Trump’s lawyers – and the American people – a peek behind the scenes about how Stephanopoulos, his producers, and ABC brass spoke about Trump when they thought no one was looking.
Kelly said these correspondences would have exposed ABC as a pro-Democrat Party propaganda machine.
“I would love to see what’s in his text messages to his producers, because I guarantee it just cost ABC News $15 million. That’s almost certainly what happened. So you may have heard this over the weekend, Trump sued ABC News, and ABC News caved,” Kelly added.
Kelly mocked ABC for folding rather than expose their star anchor to the humiliation of having to answer questions under oath from Trump’s lawyers.
“They collapsed. They gave in like that, and quickly settled the case with President-elect Donald Trump after the network’s top star George Stephanopoulos, had been ruled by the judge to be required to sit for a deposition. He fought it,” Kelly added.
“He didn’t want to have to do it. And the judge late last week said, ‘Well, you have to. You said a bunch of dumb s***. You’ve been sued for defamation. I’ve refused to get rid of this case thus far, and you must sit like any other defendant.’ You privilege whatever. ‘You must sit for deposition and answer questions from Trump’s lawyer . . .’ Kelly concluded.
The contents of Stephanopoulos’ phone were also reportedly legal and political dynamite.
“He is sloppy electronically,” a source told Puck’s Dylan Byers about Stephanopoulos. “They didn’t want the phone going into discovery.”
And in this case, ABC realized discretion was the better part of valor and beat a hasty retreat rather than have the ugly underbelly of the network exposed for all to see.
