Trump sues ABC News, George Stephanopoulos for defamation after on-air accusation that Trump was found liable for ‘rape’

2024 presumptive GOP nominee President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in Florida on Monday against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for defamation. The suit states that in an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, the ABC News host said that Trump was "found liable for rape." This allegation stems from a case with notorious New York advice columnist E Jean Carroll, who claimed that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman's dressing room at some unspecified time in the mid-1990s.

"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," the lawsuit stated.

Trump was found liable for sexual assault in the civil suit, but not of rape. Stephanopoulos made the remarks during a March 10 interview with Mace.

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