DONALD TRUMP, ABC NEWS, AND THE TOXIC LEGACY OF THE E. JEAN CARROLL CASE. The story stunned much of Washington late Saturday afternoon. ABC News had agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by President-elect Donald Trump last March, accusing ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos of defaming Trump during a discussion of the E. Jean Carroll case. ABC and Stephanopoulos agreed to pay $15 million toward a future Trump Presidential Library, plus $1 million toward Trump’s attorneys fees.

Trump has filed or threatened to file a lot of lawsuits over alleged defamatory coverage. But he hasn’t won one, hasn’t even come close to winning one. Now he has.