New details have emerged about Disney’s swift decision to settle Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against ABC News for $15 million last week, which saw the corporation criticized for declining to fight its corner and for potentially emboldening the president-elect to pursue further legal actions against his media enemies.
The Republican sued ABC earlier this year after anchor George Stephanopoulos mistakenly said on air that the former president had been “found liable for rape” in the civil case brought against him by former magazine columnist E Jean Carroll over an incident she alleges took place in a New York City department store in 1996.
