The fiasco over at Disney-owned ABC News just keeps getting worse as new damning details keep emerging after the entertainment giant settled Donald Trump’s defamation suit for a cool $15 million (plus $1 more mil for attorney’s fees).
Trump sued George Stephanopoulos and ABC in March after the anchor repeatedly claimed that the president-elect had been found “liable for rape” in the E. Jean Carroll case, despite the fact that it was untrue.
Now it gets worse for Stephanopoulos as a new report alleges that he was explicitly told by his producer not to use the “r” word:
George Stephanopoulos was repeatedly told by his executive producer not to “use the word ‘rape’” before going on the air to discuss Donald Trump but the ABC News anchor ignored the warning — a decision that cost the network $16 million, The Post has learned.
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