Former President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News and "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos after his March 10 interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., questioning her endorsement of Trump's presidential campaign considering her history as a survivor of rape. ...
"Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape," Stephanopoulos asked Mace at one point during the interview. "How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?"
The jury in Carroll's case found Trump liable for sexual abuse but not rape under New York laws.
"These statements were and remain false, and were made by Defendant Stephanopoulos with actual malice or with a reckless disregard for the truth given that Defendant Stephanopoulos knows that these statements are patently and demonstrably false," Trump's attorney, Alejandro Brito, argued in the 20-page against ABC News and its star anchor.
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