{"id":2380631,"date":"2024-12-16T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cnn-msnbc-air-the-same-phrase-that-cost-abc-15m\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T20:57:00","slug":"watch-cnn-msnbc-air-the-same-phrase-that-cost-abc-15m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cnn-msnbc-air-the-same-phrase-that-cost-abc-15m\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch CNN, MSNBC Air The Same Phrase That Cost ABC $15M"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-cnn-msnbc-air-the-same-phrase-that-cost-abc-15m%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2380631&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>ABC News has reached\u2062 a settlement of $15 million after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-furious-woman-whose-mother-died-in-ny-nursing-home-says-nbc-news-blocked-her-mentioning-cuomos-name\/\" title=\"WATCH: Furious Woman Whose Mother Died In NY Nursing Home Says NBC News Blocked Her Mentioning Cuomo\u2019s Name\">making false claims<\/a> that Donald Trump was found &#8220;liable for rape&#8221; against E. Jean Carroll in a civil \u200clawsuit. The controversy arose following an interview were ABC host George Stephanopoulos inaccurately stated that Trump had been found liable for both rape and defamation. The civil case resulted in the jury determining that while Trump was not found liable for\u200d rape, \u200dhe was held accountable for sexual abuse towards carroll. Notably, Carroll herself\u200d has avoided using the \u2062term &#8220;rape&#8221; and expressed concern for victims of sexual violence. The article also mentions that Stephanopoulos is not alone in his assertions, as several CNN and MSNBC personalities have similarly referenced Trump in relation to rape without corrections.This situation has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">sparked critically important\u2064 discussion<\/a> regarding the terminology used and its potential impact on public perception.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ABC News agreed to fork over $15 million for falsely claiming that President Donald Trump had been found &ldquo;liable for rape&rdquo; of E. Jean Carroll, it was revealed in a settlement agreement publicized on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump has been found liable for rape by a jury. Donald Trump has been found liable for defaming the victim of that rape by a jury,&rdquo; ABC host George Stephanopoulos&nbsp;falsely <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/nancy-mace-defends-support-trump-after-found-liable\/story?id=107964612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> in an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace in March. He was referring to a case in which writer E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, made loads of money selling a book about it, and then sued <em>Trump<\/em> for defamation when he insisted on his innocence.<\/p>\n<p>In the civil lawsuit, for which the standard of proof is &ldquo;more likely than not,&rdquo; the jurors explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/19\/trump-sues-abcs-george-stephanopoulos-for-repeatedly-smearing-him-as-a-rapist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> that Trump had not raped Carroll but punished him for &ldquo;sexual abuse.&rdquo; Carroll herself has publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2019\/6\/27\/18761024\/e-jean-carroll-donald-trump-accusation-rape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declined<\/a> to use the word &ldquo;rape,&rdquo; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/lifestyle-news\/writer-e-jean-carroll-no-disrespectful-rape-charges-trump-1220447\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> The Hollywood Reporter that it would be &ldquo;disrespectful to the women who are down on the border who are being raped around the clock&rdquo; to press rape charges against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopoulos had no such reservations about the term, and ABC is paying a pretty penny to the Trump presidential library for it. But he&rsquo;s not the only one who used the defamatory phrase on-air. Here are three times CNN hosts and guests aired the same phrase, and five times it happened on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Abby Phillip on CNN<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll take those concerns seriously if you also express concerns about the allegations &mdash; he&rsquo;s been found liable for rape! Donald Trump has,&rdquo; CNN &ldquo;NewsNight&rdquo; anchor Abby Phillip said on her show in October.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Sexual assault,&rdquo; a panelist off camera corrected her, before another one jumped in to say, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the same thing!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Not in the state of New York,&rdquo; the other panelist muttered as Phillip moved on.<\/p>\n<figure><video controls src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-10-23-Grabien-CNN-CNN_NewsNight_with_Abby_Phillip-2728288.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<h2>Rep. Greg Landsman on CNN<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump is unfit for office. He tried to overturn an election. That alone is disqualifying, and, not to mention the fact that a court held him liable for rape,&rdquo; said Rep. Greg Landsman, a Democrat from Ohio, on CNN&rsquo;s &ldquo;Laura Coates Live&rdquo; in July. Coates let the remark stand without correction.<\/p>\n<figure><video controls src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-07-08-Grabien-CNN-2728392.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<h2>George Conway on CNN<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t want to be held liable for rape, like Donald Trump has, don&rsquo;t grab the woman&rsquo;s genitalia,&rdquo; said Never-Trumper and founding Lincoln Project member George Conway on &ldquo;CNN This Morning&rdquo; in May. &ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t want to be held liable for defaming the woman that you raped, don&rsquo;t keep lying about what you did.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of correcting Conway&rsquo;s error, host Kasie Hunt punted to commentator Scott Jennings to respond to Conway.<\/p>\n<figure><video controls src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-05-31-Grabien-CNN-CNN_This_Morning-Kasie_Hunt-2728406.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<h2>Liz Plank on MSNBC<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;This is now different from 2016 &rsquo;cause he has been found liable for rape, so it&rsquo;s a different scenario,&rdquo; said MSNBC columnist Liz Plank in September. She continued to speak uncorrected by host Ayman Mohyeldin, who transitioned to a commercial break with the equally false assertion: &ldquo;Please stick around, we&rsquo;re going to discuss how pregnancy is now a crime, depending on where you live in America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure><video controls src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-09-29-Grabien-MSNBC-Ayman-2728356.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<h2>Ameshia Cross on MSNBC<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;What we know from Donald Trump is that he has over two dozen credible allegations of sexual assault. We know that he was found liable for rape,&rdquo;  said Democrat strategist Ameshia Cross on MSNBC in October.<\/p>\n<p>When corrected by the host, Cross doubled down, insisting that &ldquo;the judge said that it was rape. I didn&rsquo;t say that, that came from the judge.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Right, but legally speaking, I just wanted to clarify,&rdquo; the host responded.<\/p>\n<figure><video controls src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-10-26-Grabien-MSNBC-Alex_Witt_Reports-2728362.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<h2>Denver Riggleman on MSNBC<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you want to vote for a felon? Do you want to vote for somebody, you know, who said awful things about women and has been held liable for rape?&rdquo; former Rep. Denver Riggleman.<\/p>\n<p>Host Yamiche Alcindor, the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/press-releases\/pbs-newshours-yamiche-alcindor-named-recipient-of-whcas-aldo-beckman-award-for-overall-excellence-in-white-house-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recipient<\/a> of the White House Correspondents Association&rsquo;s Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage, moved on without correcting him.<\/p>\n<figure><video controls src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-08-10-Grabien-MSNBC-Alex_Witt_Reports-2728374.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<h2>Charlie Sykes on MSNBC<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;I do think the Democrats also need to look at him and go, why are we not beating this guy?&rdquo; said former Bulwark Editor-in-Chief Charlie Sykes on MSNBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;Deadline: White House&rdquo; in July. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why is this convicted felon, this man who&rsquo;s been found liable for rape, why is this ranter and raver, why is he leading in the polls?&rdquo; he continued, uncorrected.<\/p>\n<figure><video controls src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-07-19-Grabien-MSNBC-Deadline3A_White_House-2728390.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<h2>Brittney Cooper on MSNBC<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Why do we have a significant swath of the country that is so ready to give the democracy away for a man who is a, you know, criminal, you know, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-tech-totalitarianism-threatens-to-turn-america-into-canada-or-china-unless-we-stop-it\/\" title=\"Why Tech Totalitarianism Threatens To Turn America Into Canada Or China Unless We Stop It\">held civilly liable<\/a> for rape,&rdquo; said Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper on MSNBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Beat with Ari Melber.&rdquo; Jason Johnson, who was guest-hosting for Melber, did not correct her.<\/p>\n<figure><video controls src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-03-18-Grabien-MSNBC-The_Beat_With_Ari_Melber-2728442.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      Elle Purnell is the elections editor at The Federalist. Her work has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. She received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @_ellepurnell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News will pay $15 million for falsely claiming Trump was &#8220;liable for rape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2380632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/laura-coates-live.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7261,9373,4188,3746,4133],"class_list":["post-2380631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-cnn","tag-media","tag-msnbc","tag-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/laura-coates-live.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380635,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380631\/revisions\/2380635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}