Earlier this year, Trump launched a defamation lawsuit against ABC News over George Stephanopoulos’s use of the phrase “liable for rape” while discussing Trump’s E. Jean Carroll case verdict, which technically found Trump liable for sexual abuse, not rape.
Looking down the barrel of a major lawsuit, Disney decided to settle, and did so for three main reasons, according to the Times.
Disney was also concerned that as president, Trump would go after ABC News’s license. In September, Trump said that the network ought to lose their license after he was brutally fact-checked during a presidential debate. The FCC chair rejected this request, but Trump’s pick to lead the agency, Brendan Carr, doesn’t have quite the same hang-ups.
That ruling determined that when a public figure hopes to prove that a member of the press committed libel against them, it’s not enough to show that the press made a false statement. They must also prove that the defendant did so with knowledge of or reckless disregard for the statement’s falsity.
Had Trump’s defamation case been tossed to the highest court in the land, it could have seen this essential protection for journalists undone. On the other hand, the settlement showed the president-elect exactly how he can silence the press during his second administration.
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