The "charity" CNN is referring to is "a presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for the Plaintiff.”😂
The "charity" CNN is referring to is "a presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for the Plaintiff.”😂
They would be doing themselves a favor by not reporting on or interviewing bad actors but rather reporting on bad policy instead.
I thought the Trps were ineligible to run any charity because they robbed the ones they ser up. So now they get another $15M to pilfer? Where the hell do we live? WhT kind of justice system is this. Trump slanders and gets away with it. An interviewer uses the wrong word and he gets a bundle.
ABC is unwatchable.
Isn’t Trump prohibited from involvement in private foundations due to his prior fraudulent behavior?
He IS a rapist!!!
And a pedo, like his BFF, Epstein.
Oh P l e a s e e e
@realdonaldtruump.bsky.social i hope Drumpf's Big Mac Museum features each of the 34 felonies you're convicted of...
IOW, $15M directly into Trump's pocket. George should resign in protest.
Agree. No library will ever be built!
He signed the settlement agreement.
Again capitulation, I don’t like seeing this at all…scary time…abnormal.
The trump presidential library should be a room with walls lined with his inane tweets and truth social posts, located on the back lot of some MAGA supporting South Dakota farmer’s property.
Trump is now a charity? I want to be a charity!
Another foundation Trump would raid to misappropriate the funds. Trump doesn't have a fiduciary bone in his body. He's simply a crook.
Wonder how much will get past The Orange One's pockets...
Boycott MSM.
Already there.
A museum for that criminal? It should be call the museum of lies and all his lawlessness should be on display.
I am so disgusted to hear this. Does anyone have a backbone anymore? Does truth even matter? The man doesn’t read, he has no idea what a book is.
15 million will buy a lot of coloring books and crayons.
Then everybody should start suing dumper for all the crap he has said. This is totally preposterous that Trump won that lawsuit. This is now a Banana Republic.
Or rather that he could have won that lawsuit. He would never have won in court. It was buying him off with a donation just more grift.
he will have them killed otherwise. He's a dictator people.
I am now truly frightened. I think he was “elected“ to distract us from the end.
We are so screwed! Freaking cowards kissing the ring.
Power is never taken, it is given. Why are so many individuals simply acquiescing their power to this wannabe dictator. He lies, he reneges on deals, he extends no loyalty, he attempted a coup, and he is blatantly being bought by billionaires. Clearly a moral compass for the USA. Embarrassing.
I mean.... have none of the ABC suits been paying attention?🫥
It's disgusting. Pay to play.
Obey in advance, dummies.
simple: I WANNA VOMIT
And we know how the Trump family manages charities.
Bulging pockets full of silver coins
I’m sure Erik and Don, Jr will manage this charity as well as all their charities.
And the chump family has such an above board history with charities.
🤢🤢🤢🤮
Gutless cowards
Gotta be in Florida, right?
So bullsh*t
Oh great! A $15,000,000 museum built in praise of the wannabe dictator. Get some balls ABC! Fight back!
Frick!! ONCE again, absolutely NO SPINE
ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!
oh ffs
And now people, we have a dictator/king. It's no longer the USA. It's Trumplandia.
Look for ABC to have the only "fake news" front row seat in the White House briefing room, alongside Fox, OAN, Newsmax and whatever podcaster fellated Trump the day before.
I wonder if "Charity" was in the "compromising material" or "kompromat" during his first go as POTUS.
That Charity is giving money to the poor. Trump has traditionally been very poor when it comes to valuing his assets for filing his taxes.
ABC is disgraceful.
Such bullshit.
So pathetic. ABC should have gone through the deposition. We should have the right to know what we're getting in Trump. But they roll over once again.
While it saddens me to the hilt that ABCNews caved, we can all picture T's lawyers arguing in court that fine legal point of "jury said" vs "judge said". The T lawyers just might have come out on top in such a precise legal argument. It's still maddening though!!!
A witch-hunt
Disgusting 🤢
Fuck CNN. Chicken shit collaborators.
If George Stephenopolous doesn’t refuse to read the dear leader apology and resign in protest for being turned into a disinformation puppet he will have lost ALL credibility, and American journalism will be dead. Which is exactly the point. 😑 hey 4th Estate! #resist already! Punk ass wankers. 🫥
Lost faith in ol' Georgie to do the right thing years ago. Don't watch him anymore, but am sometimes surprised by his pushback in some clips.
Most of liberal lying media is unwatchable. They have been lying to their audience for years. They aren’t journalists…just a bunch of far left activists.
I haven’t watch Good Morning America since George took call from Trump every morning when he was running against Hillary.
Same! We’re resistance twins!
That’s a lot of coloring books. What else could be in Trump library.
I thought he was barred from running charities?
A bribe. Baksheesh. Payola. Palm grease. Bung.
What a load of shit. He told the truth.
Is that an oxymoron - DJT library. The only thing he reads are stolen classified documents.
Does he read them, though? Or does he just sell them?
And fucking McDonald’s menus.
Is it possible ABC didn’t want to fight it? Just another means to contribute.
BS...it's an inauguration donation.
Tons of traffic on short-term Memory Lane today. #MuseumofCon www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...
Don't forget, CONVICT U NEVER FORGET THAT!!
Wait we already know how the Trumps use the money from their previous foundations for their own personal use.
Bet he’s going to start building monuments of himself. I mean it’s not like he’ll ever pay the banks (or anyone else) what he owes anyways.
So wrong!
Cowards and Losers
FFS
I don’t understand ? Didn’t he repeat what the judge said!?
Maybe the foundation should be the E Jean Carroll foundation. Has she received her settlement yet?
Why did they cave? Why such a quick settlement?
These stupid MFs are obeying in advance. We are coooooked.
So, the Donald J Trump Presidential Library at Mar-a-Lago gets $15 million for no reason? 🙄
In other words Trump's own bank account
WTF
I bet CBS 60 Minutes will be next bc he didn’t get equal time like Harris.
Trump has no charities but himself! So they are giving the sack of shit 💩 15 million!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
George is brave, and I remember the day he said it. He was being baited by Nancy Mace, and was furious at all of it. He spoke for all of us.
It's like serfs contributing to their king for protection. It's not a settlement. It's a donation
More like a protection payment to the Mafia
Exactly
Or a bribe.
Just make the check out to "Donald J Trump." It'll save a lot of money laundering if it goes straight into his personal account.
It's a private treasury folks for trump's personal enrichment.
What I don't understand is why they don't go.After all the lies, he said about people. He is allowed to defame people, but nobody can defame him.
Except Trump isn't being defamed?
This is so gross. And it keeps happening. Why not depose him? The case wouldn’t cost more than $15M and ABC would have won if they bothered fighting. I don’t get it.
Obey in advance I keep hearing.
Horrid! Everyone is bending the knee to him. I'm getting as depressed as I was the day after the election. I was starting to get hopeful, now I just don't know.
Stay hopeful. We must stay together to get a unified party💙💙
I totally understand, Sue. It’s as though they have all lost their minds. Very depressing & sad. I’m using my anger energy to keep spreading the word about this evil cabal & talking to folks that may not have understood what’s happening. So many folks didn’t hear about trump’s crimes.
I'm doing my best. Talking to my brother, a Trumper, everyday about the corruption past and upcoming. The people at work that are Trumpers are hardcore. Having 2 Trumpers over Christmas Eve, the husband tries to convince me Trump is good and to listen to Joe Rogan. Can't win. I do my best on FB.
Wait till he screws up the economy
If George Stephanopoulos had any value as a human being he would resign immediately.
This is the fealty to the MAGA King. This is their "please do not hurt our Station" plea. $15 Million should help. Disgusting how America has given up so easily to this orange jackass.
Public airwaves my foot. They deserve no special treatment any longer. There is no fourth estate especially when they are owned by billionaires and consolidated conglomerates. You nailed it - it is all about access for their own power, and profits. Rise up, peasants.
I used Robert that France gave up so quickly to the Nazis. Our leaders didn’t even blink before they rolled over and showed their bellies and promptly gave the seat of power and wealth away.
I used to be incensed that France gave up so quickly to the Nazis. Our leaders didn’t even blink before they rolled over and showed their bellies and promptly gave the seat of power and wealth away.
There were many on the far right in France who embraced authoritarianism. They had tried and failed to overthrow their own government. They didn't mind the Nazis so much.
Dang! I was really excited about becoming a groupie for Robert that France.
Lolololololololololololololol Vive Robert que la France‼️🇫🇷‼️
This is the 3rd try using Google Gemini AI so we are just going to go with this and assume the speaker has a French accent.
The struggle is real‼️😅🍺🐝‼️
Auto correct always thinks she knows best. Just like my oldest sister.
What's Robert doing in France? I thought Bob was your Uncle in England.
Inquiring minds want to know
Or like my 15 year old daughter
I wondered if he was some more recent, French relative of Robert the Bruce. 😄
Vichy!
Corporate “journalism” has no courage. By now we can’t be surprised. We just have to activate positively. A good step would be to send a small contribution to @ACLU. They are our front line of helping people who can’t help themselves. #BlueCrew
And we can always start a network with women at the top. We’re not afraid of the pathetic orange clown
Great idea!
Ask Oprah how that worked out for her (I'm over her too)
Agree.
💙💙💙💙
Maybe they would have fought if he hadn’t won the election. But he can really screw with them now, so there you go.
ABC? Do you know how massive they are? “Never pick a fight with someone that buys ink by the barrel”. Any ways Trump could leverage the gov to screw with them would only BENEFIT ABC as they would have scandalous insider reporting.
Obeying in advance has become a knee jerk reaction.
Disgusted! So many are falling all over Trump, and he isn’t even President yet…
No kidding - thought I'd misread the piece, makes no sense. In what world could this be legit??
Kissing the ring…and all!
Oligarchy
It’s called a ‘bribe’ in other civilized countries…
Owned by a republican
A wise man once told me that you're not supposed to understand dumb sht...this would qualify.
It was a donation.
As dismayed as I've been by the unwillingness of MSM to speak up for the truth in the face of Trump's lies, I think that the media will be much worse in the coming years. They are already complying with Trump in order to curry his favor. They'll become state media smoothly, without objection.
We will have several Fox News channels.
Sucking up again. SMDH
Every day I’m more disgusted!
Because they are more afraid of him than women are- look how they kneel and pucker up
Rolling over IS what the MSM does for Trump! They have NO BALLS and all they're doing is HELPING him to FURTHER DESTROY our Country!😠
They *want* to comply. They are bending the knee.
Bending the knee and kissing the ring
Ass. Not ring, ass.
Hitler is winning
I imagine he told them to forget having any access to his administration for the next four years if they kept going forward.
It was ABC’s parent company Disney that actually made the decision. They handled Ron DeSantis well in Florida, but maybe there’s something we don’t know?
The rich and corporately powerful all think ‘they’ll be fine’. Their ignorance of German history will bite them in the ass.
🙏
Obeying in advance
TFG wouldn't have showed up anyhow. They are all capitulating to him and I just don't get it.
We need to start cancelling Some shit!!!!! Let's start w/ABC News!
I'm telling you why. They know something and we don't. And I guess when we know, we'll back down, too.
I hate this timeline.
Ever since they fired up that large hadron collider at CERN! It's gotten weird, man. It's bat country!
I know, right? I wanted to get knocked into the timeline where Hillary and Kamala win.
And Gore
Gore maybe #1 for me. Where would we be on climate change? Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan! ERA? Etc etc
And Jimmy Carter (2nd term)
This is where it all started. The butterfly effect began with gore. Le sigh.
Yes! If Gore would’ve been elected, there’s no Big War response to 9/!1– maybe not even a whole 9/!!! Then there’s no Afghanistan, no Big Lie about WOMDs to get us there, which means no Big Lie socially accepted, which means we don’t get to a Drump because we headed that monster off at the pass
If only…
I think maybe I have died and this is just like Jacob’s Ladder revealing that I am dead.
When was that?
They rolled.
Bribe/blackmail. It’s his MO
ABC owned by Disney entertainment. Lots out there about Walt being a fascist nazi sympathizer etc. So why not go with the flow 💁🏻♀️🤬 All falling in line. JFC!
You get it.
Everyone is rolling over for Cheeto Hitler. His luck is uncanny.
My lawyer brain tells me not to assume that they would have won. Having said that, the larger point seems to be that this is apparently a case of horrible timing.
No doubt GOP promised not to jail George…
A museum of corruption and incompetence sounds cool though.
Allison, IF this wasn't Marc you were replying to, I'd be typing a few choice words. I think they should be deposing him like they said they would.
There was a time when networks thought of news as a public service. The networks used the public airwaves for free and in exchange they broadcasted actual information. The news was not meant to be for profit. Then entered CNN, 24 hrs of cable news for $. The networks, owned by corporations, followed
Every single network news and every cable news are now owned and therefore controlled by a cabal of billionaire investors via Vanguard.
Exactly. That’s why a good place to find actual news is the BBC and on journalists writing on Substack.
BBC News in the UK has been taken over by Conservatives (thanks to Boris) and is almost unwatchable at home. Hopefully that doesn’t extend to support of Trump.
Yep. News used to be a public service. But even before cable and CNN, they realized news programs could generate profit. In came sponsors and the race for ratings. The race just became much worse when cable and Internet and social media came.
They're scared. That much is obvious.
It's called kissing ass to save their jobs.
“that’s a nice network you got there, be a shame if something happened to it.”
It's about access. It's always about access.
They're scared of corporal Bonespurs.
They are obeying in advance. Trump and his henchman all need to be challenged at every turn.
It makes absolutely no sense. I don't get it either.
No more ABC this is unacceptable
Bowing down to the dear leader
Cowards and suck ups…🤷🏻♀️
Profit over commitment to truth. It’s sickening.
Ring kissers.
It's what the 🍊 one wanted. The money will evaporate.
Their lawyers are cowards. They are probably trumpets themselves.
This is more of the media obeying in advance. It makes my blood boil when Trump wins these meritless cases.
“Pretty nice broadcast license you got there, da boss said dat it’d be a shame if something happened to it”
There it is.
Buying access and protection money for the parent company. So very obvious.
We’re starting to understand 1930s Germany.
Watch some of the recent Netflix Hitler series. It's Exactly the same, fake news, everything.
It's more like early 2000's Russia when Putin took over
Both.
Bestimmt.
Absolutely
I am petrified.
Understandably.
obeisance in advantiosis?
Ever feel like you’re so much braver and determined than these pussies? I do! Power To The People!
like this more dustinga.com/kh0v7rts?key...
No
Real
Access!
I'm all for deposing, impeaching, de-throning-whatever it takes.
Trump is an f ing serial rapist!! See. That wasn’t so hard!!
Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation. Not rape
I know. He’s still a rapist however.
Say you. But George lied and ABC had to pay
What about all the times trump lies? Can we sue him? He’s a serial rapist and liar!! That’s the truth.
He didn’t lie. Trump raped her. The jury found he forced either his tiny dick, or his fingers, inside her. That is rape. The judge later clarified that yes, even if it was his fingers, that is rape. If it was his dick, his fingers, anything…that’s rape. Why are you fighting for a rapist? Sick.
President Biden had the rape charge against him also then. The charge was buried.
🙄 points for your absolutely useless “what-about-ism”, but that is 1) just completely false 2) a really pathetic way to stop having to think about the fact that your hero is an ~actual~ adjudicated rapist, a 34 count felon, a conman & grifter, who is going to take away your healthcare & pensions
We lost healthcare a Long time ago. We have sick care. Very little preventative healthcare! And pensions have been gone for most people for many years now. The federal government is 36 billion in the red! But we need more federal expenditures🤔
"Rape CHARGE", seems you don't understand correct terminology. 🤣 Sooo desperate. ❄️
So you agree Trump raped her? Cos that's the topic at hand here buddy
It’s rape. Period. Don’t bother downplaying it with semantics. He is a rapist.
The “sexual abuse” meant they couldn’t clarify if he thrust his fingers or his penis inside of her. The definition of rape in NY (which has since been expanded) meant “rape” *only* meant a penis forced into a vagina against one’s will. That means if someone effed you up the a**…that’s not rape.
Crazy isn’t it? And sad.
We’d all say, “ah, c’mon…that’s *just* sexual abuse! That’s not ~rape~. Like, no big deal, right?
Yeah. Because it’s being done to a woman. The patriarchy is disgusting.
True - They couldn’t clarify whether it was Trumps penis or his notoriously tiny fingers.
Yes, they weren't sure which appendage raped her.
The judge literally clarified that his crimes would be defined as rape by a majority of society, and was only labeled as SA/defamation due to an intricacy of NY law definitions. Only the wannabe rapists think what he did wasn’t rape.
I despise that man so much!
I have never hated anyone in my life. Not my eldest daughter’s bio father who walked away from us when she was 10 mos old. I HATE Trump. I don’t like it, but I can find zero positives regarding him, but lots of really deep “hell nos”. I hate him, and I hate that I hate another human being.
Is he suing the judge too?
My God what is happening to this country 🙏😭
Depose the inevitable Gravy Train for the next 4 years? Your path is pennywise and dollar foolish.
Because they're afraid their press credentials will be taken away and no exclusive access to the White House. I think it's cowardly but they have to think of ratings and revenue.
C’mon. It’s obvious what’s going on here.
It's because you have principles. Don't try to get them, it's not healthy
Pathetic
Obeying and paying in advance
Bending the knee
Fear of reprisals and wanting to be in good terms with the White House for "access"? Plus, at the head of all media conglomerates there are millionaires and billionaires who don't mind a Trump government at all.
Yes, this is the reason. It's as simple as this.
Exactly and well said
Because corruption and not wanting to upset the thin skinned autocrats
Spineless people do that.
Who owns ABC? Disney. And the billionaires who own Disney see more money from cosying up than from fighting it.
Another way to kiss the ring.
Completely disgusting. Trump never, ever sees justice. We deserve better. America deserves better.
Do we, though? Maybe not anymore. 🤦🏻♀️
Yes!!! Because he never "really" has any consequences, he emboldens other psychopaths.
Chalk another reason up to why I’m an atheist.
It just makes him more brazen and feel invincible. That shows how weak the US justice system is.
Would be a *great* time for someone to question the Russian translator from Trump's meeting with Putin. And if Biden sees fit to release it, well, I am told that's his absolute right.
It is surreal.
You get the government you deserve. People were either too inconvenienced to vote or too lazy to do any research.
Or the media didn’t tell the truth about him. And again gave him free advertising. Fuck them.
Absolutely
No we don’t. We deserve what we voted for.
Maybe. But I voted for sanity. The irony knocks me down.
It is their bribe to keep him off their case…absolutely disgusting. Bye, bye ABC…
Sick and tired of the lack of any accountability. Disgusting and disgraceful.
The #AdjudicatedRapist & #Felon can fuck off.
It’s disgusting. What a bunch of wimps! Haven’t watched the news since the election but, if I go back, I won’t be watching ABC!
It makes no sense
Rich people own ABC and they want to get richer and/or not be targeted by frivolous lawsuits they’ll be targeted by anyway.
You can't hear the sucking noise from where you are? They settled so they could avoid the wrath of Trump. They are spineless.
"Wouldn't want to piss off the president elect."
Shitgibbon controls 'access'. If he kicks ABC out of the press room and his administration refuses to talk to any ABC reporters... then ABC will lose more the $15M. It's all about the money. ABC (and parent Disney) are just "capitalists" IMHO, this is why we need non-MSM reporting on this shit.
If they go to court and even if ABC wins (which they probably would), t-rump goes scorched earth. Trashes the network, maligns the reporting and the reporters. All his minions fall in step and do the same thing. All the networks need to drag him into court, mercilessly. And never relent.
I am so fu**ing suck of this crap.
Maybe I’m late but wouldn’t the 🍊 one just tell his new fcc lackey destroy abc if they didn’t ?
It's their way of contributing to his inauguration like Zuck and Besos!
My dream? Wait until Inauguration Day and then arrest everyone in one place for treason!
They’d all be together in one place.
Exactly
This would be amazing!
That is in the MIRACLE category.
I think it’s just a way for them to donate for Donald Trump without having to follow the law. But I am cynical that way.
Obeyed in advance
I have to tap out for a while. Our institutions are cowardly caving and it’s so disturbing. FIGHT BACK good Americans!!!!!
✅️
I wanted to hear the discovery. I wanted to hear trump try to NOT defame her again..
Just a way for Disney to pay $15M tribute to the king. Absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the case. Bonus: throw Stephanopoulos under the bus to serve as a chilling warning to everyone else at ABC news.
Can’t wait until he’s dead
bsky.app/profile/dawn...
Fkg wienie roast
“Donald Trump Presidential Library” WTF books would a dolt who can’t even fucking read nor can his cult) have in a library? Mein Kamf, Handmaid’s Tale - I can see those two being there.
🤣 That’s a good one!
Is it built? If it isn't it will never be built, the guy doesn't read, evidenced bu his astonishment at words we all use.
Maybe they know something we don’t about how vicious Trump plans to get.
Even if they do, it won’t save them.
This is it. They are all scared. We stand up and fight for ourselves, but most would not want to involve our families. Those villains most likely are threatening families.
Yes, they do so as a matter of course.
Glad I’m not the only one and if you don’t get it, of all people, then it’s completely unexplainable in any sense.
You forgot about the part where he had his new fixer make some calls with info from his dirt files.
It was the parent company, Disney, that made the call on it.
Suppose for a minute that you wanted to give someone 150,000,000 dollars as a bribe,which would be tax free and through your books,what better way than this sham settlement?
Interesting.
One zero off, but this makes a lot of sense. They'd otherwise have to buy 150 of the high end watches, and Don's watch company is only making 147 of them.
Yes,and then you would have to decide how to get rid of them, the date setting is strictly antebellum. the sixty white jewels sounds ominous. Definitely not diamonds maybe cubic zirconia. How low can he go selling crap?
*watching to see who at in the insurer group gets fat appointments ….
Trump and Patel promised to go after the media, print, cable and broadcast. ABC is shaking in its boots. Our free press has cowered. It is disgusting and sad.
Trump is an authoritarian who could have ABC’s licensed yanked. Gonna take some time before most of the country realizes what we’ve got ourselves into.
I swear I get sick everyone's I can't take 4 years I think a lot of people are going to get sick because of the high level of stress because of Donald Trump
Send POTUS memo. Sufficient evidence results of election COMPROMISED/INVALID. FORENSIC AUDIT BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE! AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE TO KNOW. !! #Resistance docs.google.com/document/d/1... www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/letter-to-... www.whitehouse.gov/contact/share/
What bullshit
We can turn them off like a faucet. MAGA doesn’t watch them or read them.
Those corp donors are looking for their tax cuts promised. Tax cuts won't matter if revenues decline, and they will under a Trade Wars Trump presidency. People stop spending money during pandemics too, when can't afford to travel due to high unemployment rates.
This is CRAZY 😧
Facebook - CEO is a Trump Donor Twitter - CEO is a Trump Donor
I think this graphic has been at least partially debunked... www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...
Regardless - Their views and segments for years have been dangerously treacherous, traitorous, and treasonous. Full of everything except factual news
I do like to keep things factual. Both in social and the news.
Let me how that works in a future without Democracy in the United States - FACT -> we are now ruled by billionaires
Sorry... are we fighting about something? I believe we agree but your tone suggests we don't.
I agree with you - It's not personal - I will have a chip on my shoulder and will live with anger at most fellow Americans until my last breath
Can't blame you there. 😔 My oldest after the election: "It's okay, I'm fine. I just have to make peace with the fact that most of humanity will disappoint me most of the time." 💔
Truth and wisdom, unfortunately
No wonder the convicted felon appeared so confident.
I don't listen to any of them, they helped get the Con elected.
Is there something in CEO water???
this is why the media has been so one sided and are constantly losing viewers.
BINGO 🎯
Their cowardice knows no end. Pathetic little lickspittles.
"And I'll take away your broadcast license."
He wouldn’t be capable of a lot of his tech threats if it weren’t for Leon. Who should have been investigated for election interference.
They are kneeling. They are a corporation and the future looks bright for the rich. That's why.
The fourth estate is collapsing in front of our eyes. They bend the knee, they kiss the ring. They don't fight. They obey in advance. I don't get it either.
The fourth estate is mainly owned by American oligarchs. Sad indeed.
Seems like they're all men, too.
This is exactly it. They want to be the ones who are left after the other media outlets shut down
How long before he bans the BBC from his press conferences?
Yeah, most surprising and disturbing aspect to this. I feel like we’re living in one of those dystopian movies you scoff at and go, “THAAAT wouldn’t happen” and “Nothing would happen that fast” or “No one is THAT stupid”. Yet here we are, haven’t even had 2 handfuls of popcorn.
Incredibly sad.
They are making themselves irrelevant to people who want truthful news. New media will take over.
I subscribed to the Philadelphia Inquirer
It's called appeasement to the wannabe dictator. Obeying in advance.
6 months of boycotting all corporate media. The media chooses profits over the facts. They normalize the extremists and crazy. We have the power to force change, use it.
Stop panicking. I haven't watched a TV news show in two decades and I'm still fairly well informed. We need to find alternative news outlets that are reliable and truthful.
Blow job
What gets ME, is that Trump is NON-STOP lying, insulting, slandering people, both famous AND private citizens and NOTHING ever happens to him! But when it comes to HIM, he's some sort of 'sacred being'
When you’re sent by God, you get by with those things. 🤬
When you are sent by satan in a cruel world this is not of God. But when God comes watchout
Makes you wonder how many are given a small pay-off and an NDA to save Trump from being embarassed in court.
My thoughts exactly!!!!
We need a gathering.
Did EJean Carroll get her settlement yet?
Did Rudy get paid? New Mexico? He has a lot of debt.
Something to do with Joe and Mika.
Fear
Disgusting. It’s just another grift.
I guess @abcnewsbot.bsky.social is contributing to his inauguration fund as well. Leon and the guy with the penis shaped rocket better pony up. #cowardice
I think of Max Headroom, the show that believed the future of news was fought over to bring you the real information first.
Something's up?
I can't wait to see what the trump museum will look like. Thanks, ABC.
Once you figure out that CNN and ABC are on team trump you'll get it.
I don't either. George is not the kind of guy to say something not thoroughly vetted.
Trump’s inauguration ain’t gonna fund itself
gotta pay those actors to actually fill the DC mall this year
Kiss the ring for the long term. Kneel to the iron chair….unreal
Bet he steals that money or never pays it.
$15 Mill tax write off is not the same as having to pay $15 mill
Disney will not do that. They like to play both sides of the fence. Got to keep on Donald's good side since he won.
Front end of a 4-year war over their right to broadcast. We are entering very grim times indeed.
Yes, it least depose him, and release the transcript.
Anticipatory obedience?
I prefer “preemptive obedience” but that is good too..
It's seems they are all bowing down to the king already. Crazycstuff.
Protection
Fear.
It's a payoff.
Follow independent journalists!
Fear. They're all afraid of him.
Because Merrick Garland was slow as a turtle. The most consequential decision Joe Biden made and could undo everything dating back to FDR. We are f45ked.
You mean "slow as a turtle at a stop sign" ...
Do you know that Murdoch owns the largest share of Disney? www.meidasplus.com/p/shame-on-a...
Murdoch is just one of many shareholders of Disney. His share is not the largest, and is smaller than Vanguard's, and they own less than 10% of the company. The larger issue is that there are a _lot_ of capitalist investors who silently agree with Murdoch about a lot of things.
Vanguard like most other mutual funds / etfs are passive. They are irrelevant on issues such as these. You don’t need much of a stake to make a huge stink and hold sway
My point there is that Murdoch has less than 8%. Yes, he can influence the board, but he didn't sell 20th century Fox to Disney as part of a ploy to take over Disney itself. I doubt this particular deal is Murdoch-related. The guy is 93 years old and has bigger issues in his life.
Not arguing that just pointing out that most activist investors have less than 10%. Closer to the 5% level Comparing to vanguard is irrelevant
I get it. It’s $15m (plus $1m in legal fees) to bend the knee, paid for by ABC, it’s E&O carrier, and perhaps its reinsurers. It’s so nauseating words escape me.
ABC is afraid the Trump administration will revoke their licenses to broadcast and/ or audit them and / or launch bogus federal investigations against them.... shameful. No cojones.
Someone at ABC calculated that their losses-stock dip? Viewership down? Persecution?-would far exceed $15 million.
"Persecution?" the moment trump was elected, EVERYTHING changed. we do not know the NEW yet but the OLD is GONE maybe not forever, we must still fight and be ready for midterms - but NOTHING will be the same for a few years, maybe a lot of years it doesn't matter if we are ready or not - its here
"Someone at ABC calculated that their losses-stock dip? Viewership down? Persecution?-would far exceed $15 million." yes - the cost of being at war with DJT goes through the roof once he is president (again) the big corps are bowing down with millions for trumps inaugural else he wrecks them all
This is their fear
The media is scared. Not capitulating means punishment, legal or otherwise. We're in an ugly place. And it's not likely to get prettier any time soon.
They're pussies for not fighting. Everybody is scared of him. Unbelievable.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was just another illegal shakedown
Chicken shits all
Outrageous
The one positive of the last decade - it freed me from any perceived obligation to watch corporate news.
They don't want the baby's wrath. They kissed the ring.
Obeying in advance. Use the lawsuit as a cover to give to inauguration. Pick one. Or both.
CNN is afraid; simple.
#TrumpRapedEjeanCarroll
It’s payment for something. Occam’s razor.
An other bent knee.
It's a bribe. It's impossible to defame Trump.
Goodbye all major news networks. DONE!
Note: defamation claims are covered by insurance. So, this may be the insurer's coddling to Trump and not ABC. Not to discount Disney/ABC rolling over...
This is very depressing. Everyone is just giving up. What the heck. Fight back!!!!
Shocking not shocking. So done with corporate state media.
it's called 'end times' and 'antichrist rising'
Trump tamed the media alright-into cult of the leader & threatening it if doesn't continue to comply! Isn't HE now part of gov't & isn't that 'prior restraint', 'chilling effect'. Another attack on the 1st Amendment/freedom of the press. youtu.be/Vtpd0EbaFoQ?...
They are obeying in advance. Cowards.
The dominos are falling quicker than expected.
I wish someone could figure out exactly what IS going on, and let us in on it.
...because they're on his side...something we all needed to acknowledge years ago.
I found out many years before we all started talking about psychopaths that psychopaths find each other. There's no loyalty there nor affection. But they recognize each other and will work together to get what they want. This is very important for us to know.
I didn't expect the press to capitulate so quickly
He sues for money and idiots give him money. He is a conman with a lot of time in his hands.
What BS 🤢🤮🤮🤮
#RapistTrump
This is another media outlet kissing the ring.
As in, "it's charitable to think Trump plans to have a presidential library"?
So archiving of rebus documents?
Is there anyone we can trust out there who will not obey in advance who will not kiss the ring or bend the knee?
Not in the news media
I know we are getting right down to the wire, but I still trust Joe, Kamala, Merrick, Jack, and our allies not to allow the criminals to gain control of the country and set the whole world on fire. 🙏🙏🙏
I hope you’re right. But I fear you are not. Merrick failed the country by taking so long to go after Trump for Jan 6. Didn’t play the game he was in.
Factually, you are incorrect. He started investigating Trump on Day 1. The narrative about him being meek and "sitting on his hands" is misinformation. If 2 yrs of investigation had not already been done when Jack was appointed SC, then Jack could not have indicted Trump as soon as he did.
Furthermore, even if Trump had been indicted the day Garland took office, he wouldn't have gone to trial. SCOTUS would have given him immunity earlier, Trump would have kept appealing, & SCOTUS would have kept delaying until the election. I don't understand why people think indicting him earlier
would have mattered. In addition, there are ramifications for indicting people before investigations are completed. I've always thought Garland chose Jack to be SC bcs his plan was for T and probably others to be tried at the International Criminal Court. We need to wait to see whether I am right.
I hope you’re right. The sense I got was DOJ initially went after Jan 6 rioters but not the masterminds. Jan 6 cmmtee public hearings were summer 2022. Smith appointed Nov 2022.
At this point 🤷🏾♀️
Nicolle Wallace, love, trust and respect her.
Probably not in traditional mass media. Their numbers reflect that, though.
Not from billionaires and Corporate media they own.
Another MSM provider I will not watch!
And for Trump, Charity Begins and Ends at Home
They caved. How sad.
He is making a mockery of the media and they are allowing it to happen. They have no credibility now. CNN, ABC, and MSNBC are not credible and their ratings are sinking. They didn’t even try to fight.
Marc, or someone, please explain to me why ABc would agree to pay so much to settle a case they had leverage?? Outside of sheer abject cowardice and fealty which should be immediately disqualifying for a news org.
Oh, it's disqualifying all right... For years now, I no longer get news from any "news" entity that existed prior to the Internet. All my news now obtained from independents. We choose what entities are disqualified. Check out findyournews.org
$15miilion? That’s an insane amount😳
Omg at least give it to the poor!
When Trump brought this case, all the MSNBC talking legal heads said he had no chance of winning. Now they settle?
What a joke 🤬
So it will be a charity for his family or billionaires?
A library full of comic books, Dick and Jane, and Hitler writings.
And his "own" book.
iow’s straight into his piggy isn’t. A fn joke.
I wouldn’t pay that fuckstick a dime.
What the fuck?!?!?!
What a bunch of cowards at ABC
He'll figure out some way to get that money from this museum that will supposedly be built.
There ain’t gonna be no “museum” For anyone who might not get that.
So, he can talk shit, put people down, call them names and that’s ok but when his feelings are hurt, he’s cries like a two year old n gets paid.smh
Wow has media just become flattened by this felon?
Guess it can’t be a charity for children’s cancer in New York. Or is that prohibition out the window, too?
He gets away with everything…never any accountability for his actions.
That's a lot of crayons!
A grotesque display of corporate cowardice. ABC is caving, and it feels like more will follow. Really disgusting.
So getting to keep your WH press room credentials costs $15M?
Watching MSM fall to the King and abandon their fourth estate responsibilities has been a real disappointment.
No a travesty!
Another knee bent to the dictator wannabe. Ridiculous CNN should be ashamed of themselves for paying a dime.
That’s called his bank! P.I.N.O. Is the worst POS that graced the HOUSE WHITE!
Oh FFS it’s just so so fucking disturbing. We are about to lose our country. Everyone is going to cave? Just cave?
But… eggs!
It was racism and misogyny. The eggs was a media catch phrase. That’s just my opinion though.
A prison should be named after traitor Trump
Delay, Deny and Depose trump💩
ABC………Always Be Cockless.
There’s only one beneficiary of Trump’s “charities” -Big ole Orange Keister
WTH!
Noted and duly Gaslit.
But we can still call him a racist though, right?
What an asshole.
If they are going to pay $15 they might as well have included statutory rape for his good times with Epstein
He is an old white man and convicted rapist He was dear friend and frequent party pal with Epstein. Honestly, what is left to “defame” him with? He defames himself everyday by getting out of bed. He is one of the lowest life forms to ever crawl on this earth. Who was the judge in that case?
They don’t owe that bastard an apology He owes the world an apology for even being born If all the media band together he can’t beat them all up
Apparently abc lawyers are cowards
And we know how well the Trump organization handles “charities” what a farce.
Yeah, right. Got it.
What a load of hooey. ABC News will pay & apologise for telling the truth?
Makes me barf…
Paying the vig
In other words “the Donald Trump Family Trough”
Stephanopoulos was an idiot. Trump has never been convicted of rape. He knew better than to make this type of comment. But ABC's cowardice in settling this case so quickly is more like trying to buy their way back into Trump's good graces.
actually the judge clarified that it was rape.
You know, a judge also said that Biden was unconstitutional in his pardon of his son, because Biden set the pardon date through the day he issued the pardon. Because, according to the judge, you can't issue a pardon for a future time...ie the rest of the day after he signed the pardon.
No, he didn't. And it doesn't matter, he wasn't criminally charged with rape.
Yes he did and it should have mattered. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
thanks for posting this—I was looking for this article for her…not that it will have an effect.
I deal with facts. An aside by a judge in a case is not a fact. Trump has never been convicted of rape. Not in New York's interpretation of rape. The civil suit found he committed sexual battery. And that's why news people have to use caution when mentioning it.
well, I guess if ABC had not settled the case this kind of parsing could have taken place in the courtroom as it should have
Agreed, and that's why ABC's act of cowardice causes great harm.
I hope it does. Really surprised to see any mutual of mine taking her position here.
You know, a judge also said that Biden was unconstitutional in his pardon of his son, because Biden set the pardon date through the day he issued the pardon. Because, according to the judge, you can't issue a pardon for a future time...ie the rest of the day after he signed the pardon.
Because I deal with facts. An aside by a judge in a case is not a fact. Trump has never been convicted of rape. Not in New York's interpretation of rape. The civil suit found he committed sexual battery. And that's why news people have to use caution when mentioning it.
😡😡😡😡
It will be a giant gift shop with a tiny museum attached.
Great "grift" shop.
"How DARE you call me a rapist?! I'm a sexual assailant, get it right!"
Trump forced himself on a woman in a department store dressing room. And he’s making light of it.
So Trump is being rewarded for semantics. Sexual assault, rape…po-tay-to, predator….same difference. The world is in a moral tailspin. What if it were your daughter he assaulted? And will ABC be giving the money to the charity Trump and his kids were stealing from? #MAGA is a mockery of decency.
Trump is openly blackmailing everyone while law enforcement does nothing. Blackmail has been Trumps MO for decades. He is blackmailing donors, congressional members, industries, and has blackmailed countries using our Executive. Republicans used to try to hide the crimes.
Oralè Resisters Rumor is he took a dump in his diaper at the Cathedral de Norte Dame and everyone around him couldn’t stand the stench. You should see the video, we have been laughing all week with it! 😝😝 #VonShitzInPants
He shit himself at Notre Dame such an alpha man.
Those poor people Having to be near stinky
For telling the truth?
The president of the charity
There’s not a single media outlet left that will do investigative reporting on anything in the Trump admin. They are all scared of the repercussions. We’re one step away from reporters falling out of windows.
Talking Points Memo, ProPublica, Common Dreams, New Republic, Mother Jones, Washington Monthly....
Scared of the repercussions? No they’re scared of simply being ridiculed or called names. Jim Acosta is the ONLY member of the media that has stood up to the orange turd.
first... I disagree I don't think MSNBC hosts give a crap about what Trump says about them because they actually include it in their show. second... my dad was in the USCG and I have this vintage poster if it means anything to you.
I guess what I meant was more during live scrums the media never challenges trump, in the studio they’re safe. The Eagle is an iconic ship. In Prince Rupert BC and on the west coast of Vancouver Island we dealt with the USCG quite often. Coast guard and Navy the US were pros and excellent hosts 🙂
Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Meidas Touch, Lincoln Project.
I’d add Joy Reid.
And Mehdi Hasan, of course.
And Jon Oliver
Oh yes! How could I forget him?
Wondering how soon they go after Oliver's citizenship.
Not long I’d wager.
We probably won't even realize we're being lied to in a few years... Then we'll fit in and everything will be normal again. 😐
Add Propublica.
Yea! They do great reporting!!
This is all that persons that have the ability to think critically;can depend on for real information.
Watch him turn marred-a-shithole into a presidential museum so he can use the $ for museum stuff, which may include a McDonald’s drive-thru and an exhibition of the confidential documents that are reportedly still missing after the DOJ search warrant. Nice going CNN
Is the museum a McDonalds
Obeying in advance 🤦🏿♀️😫 JFC it's truly infuriating and scary to see how many people, politicians, corporations are embracing a Dictatorship even several in the Democratic Party.
God I hate that slimy bastard. I can't wait until the rebellion tears down all of the gimcrack monuments to his cruel and stupid life like Syrians did to Assad.
Also known as, “straight into his pockets.”
Ugh
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Presidential library for nitwits is not necessary…they don’t read.
Adult book's what? Methinks they missed out on the children's books.
The Trump Museum will be a curiosity for Earth's dominant species, talking apes.
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Spoilers!!
We can remember today, December 14, 2024, as the day independent journalism died.
"APOLOGY" - for what? Telling the TRUTH? Are we at that point, now?
In other words an outright gift to Trump. We are so fucked as a nation
Donald tRUmp IS a rapist. End of story.
And Nancy Mace, a rape victim, voted for him.
She is not a victim. She made the story up. The sex was consensual.
I have thought that for a while now. Her theatrics with the hand shake kinda prove her MO.
🤔
Ridiculous. Shaking my head. He is a fake.
Why am I not surprised?
Umfuvkingbelievable
I used to respect George Stephanopoulos but started noticing his acquiescence to the right during interviews. Now this?? How many viewers will ABC start losing as a result of this spineless ass-kissing? George could have just refused & resigned. He and Chris Wallace should start their own show.
Stephanopoulos has sucked since he stabbed Bill Clinton in the back. F him.
I didn't know he stabbed Bill in the back. He lost me forever after his infuriating (for me) and embarrassing (for him) Biden interview. Not that I normally watch him, but I completely lost respect for him and will be sure to never watch him again.
I'm going back years with that one. His stabbing President Biden in the back and sucking up to dictator Trump doesn't surprise me, considering he's always been a sneaky, slimy, spineless two-face.
Presidential Trump Library = prison library!
So its going to be a library of tweets and nonsense and lies right?
oh, and cancelled checks.
Which we all know means his pocket
The amount of capitulation going on before his regime even begins is.. sad, disappointing, scary? The legacy media was lost when it lost it's courage.
Apparently they don’t have good lawyers.
Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll… www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Can that be FRONT PAGE NEWS 🤔 apparently NOT 😳
📌
And he was elected. What a mind fuck for all victims of predatory crimes
You’re telling me.
Trump triggers me bec my dad is as nasty as Trump. But for victims of sex abuse, watching a known rapist rise must be beyond hard to bear. Signed- embarrassed American. I sure didn’t vote for that piece of shit
Same re my father. And I was raped in the past. I got bothsies
I am so so sorry. We are survivors deep down in our souls. They trigger us but we don’t crumble. Respect to you!
Will The View also be gagged?
I turned it on at 11:07am, and did not hear it addressed. Something like that would generally be 1st. You may be right. Did you watch?
No, I record it and watch it in the evening. Not surprised. They were gagged. I kid you not, if the ladies stop criticizing this president and fall in line, I will stop watching.
F ABC! I’m sure you’re correct. ABC has succumbed to The Felon, and they put a gag order on all their on- air talent. I wish George S. would refuse to apologize and resign from ABC. Bowing to that Rapist is no way to cap his successful career.
Goodbye TV news. Ridiculous submission to the most disgusting pig the USA has erroneously elected. Let the rating crash and burn!
So disappointing. He wins over getting his feelings hurt?
'Museum'!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They should all be ashamed of themselves. Of course, our new DOTUS (for the D, you may choose: Dictator, Dotard, Dullard, Dimwit) is incapable of shame.
Can ABC name it themselves? "The President council on not raping store clerks" has a great ring. Ta!
CNN headlines keep getting more and more distant from the truth…
I’m waiting for George to resign. He has to be really pissed about this.
This is disgusting.
#donotobeyinadvance
A down payment for what Trump owes New York.
😂
This is bad, Marc, but I think we can expect much, much worse. P.S. What will be in that "museum?" A gallery of National Enquirer covers?
Insane.
Trump can’t legally run a charity.
Who’s going to stop them? That’s where we are.
Utter BS.
If Stephanopoulos has a pair, he’d resign. Reporters need to show some integrity.
Better reason for the American people to "Boycott all media", especially during the inauguration. It will look like we're watching Russia TV propaganda. Putin's laughing at us!!
Oh, and what lovely "American Carnage" speech will Stephen Miller be writing this time...
Yes .. unfortunately 🤷😫
I can already hear all the channels praising the most beautiful inauguration…I won’t watch a thing.
I am so about this, independent media not funded by the ruling class is still fine by me, but the same washing we’ve been seeing even more since the election is sickening…
I'm so angry! 😡
Same
Winning…must be glorious to have everything paved in gold for you….🤡
Total bullshit. ABC = cowards