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ABC News has agreed<\/a> to donate $15 million to President-elect Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s future presidential basis and museum, and pay a further $1 million in authorized charges, to settle a defamation case he introduced towards the community and its star anchor George Stephanopoulos<\/strong> earlier this 12 months.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing,\u201d ABC News spokesperson Jeannie Kedas<\/strong> stated.<\/p>\n Trump alleged that the community and Stephanopoulos, the previous White House communications director beneath Bill Clinton<\/strong> and the host of \u201cThis Week,\u201d defamed him in March of this 12 months.<\/p>\n The lawsuit stems from an interview<\/a> Stephanopoulos carried out with Representative Nancy Mace<\/strong>, a Republican from South Carolina, about one other defamation case. He requested Mace, who has been vocal<\/a> about being a sufferer of rape as a young person, how she may endorse the president after he had \u201cbeen found liable for rape by a jury.\u201d The anchor was referring to the winding authorized battle<\/a> between Trump and author E. Jean Carroll<\/strong>, who has held<\/a> for years that Trump raped her in a New York City division retailer dressing room within the mid-Nineties. A jury sided with Carroll and ordered the previous president to pay her about $90 million.<\/p>\n The situation at hand, Trump alleged, was that in that case, he was discovered accountable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll\u2014however not for \u201crape.\u201d That distinction in language, because the choose within the case, Lewis Kaplan<\/strong>, attested to many occasions, has much less to do with what transpired in that dressing room and extra to do with New York\u2019s authorized limitations in terms of sexual violence.<\/p>\n At the time of that trial, New York regulation stated that somebody may solely be convicted of rape if there was vaginal penetration by a penis. During Carroll\u2019s testimony and in her earlier retelling of the occasion, she stated that Trump used each his fingers and his penis to assault her.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had pulled down my tights, and his hand went\u2014his fingers went into my vagina, which was extremely painful, extremely painful. It was a horrible feeling because he curved, he put his hand inside of me and curved his finger. As I\u2019m sitting here today, I can still feel it,\u201d Carroll testified<\/a>, including, \u201cThen he inserted his penis.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump has repeatedly denied that this occurred, saying, \u201cShe said that I did something to her that never took place. There was no anything. I know nothing about this nut job\u201d and that \u201cshe\u2019s not my type.\u201d<\/p>\n The jury concluded, in line with Kaplan\u2019s determination, that Trump had \u201cdeliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll\u2019s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long-lasting emotional and psychological harm\u201d however didn’t rule affirmatively on if he had additionally used his penis. In quick, as a result of New York required penile penetration, Trump was discovered accountable for sexual abuse and never rape.<\/p>\n