December 16, 2024 | Joe Blackstone | 2 Comments Trump sued ABC News over their use of the word “rape” rather than “Sexual Assault.” While ABC could likely have fought this, they instead rolled over and paid $15 million to settle it. Here is the saleint part from Electoral-Vote.com: ABC News decided it was better to pay Trump than fight this in court, so they paid him $15 million to make the case go away. Stepanopoulos also has to say he “regrets” the mistake. This is a warning to the media that Trump will go after them if they anger him. In this case, it is merely a warning for interviewers to be very careful about terminology. Trump can be called someone who was found liable for sexual assault, but he can’t be called a rapist. Will this one case cow the media? Probably not, but it will make interviewers, talking heads, and writers more careful about their exact words. As to the Jan. 6 case, one cannot say Trump led an insurrection (because he hasn’t been convicted so far), but one can say that he was indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to defraud the United States. To us, the correct wording sounds worse than “insurrectionist.” Check out the entire post post on electoral-vote.com, which can be found here.