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Judge Refuses To Dismiss Donald Trump’s Defamation Lawsuit Against ABC News
The former president's case can go forward.
U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga wrote that she “does not find that a reasonable jury must — or even is likely to — conclude Stephanopoulos’s statements were defamatory. In their motion to dismiss, ABC’s attorneys pointed to what the judge in the E. Jean Carroll case, Lewis Kaplan, wrote in a later ruling. “The finding that Ms.Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that,” Kaplan wrote.
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