President-elect Donald Trump has had wide-ranging problems with the internet before and after entering elections.  ,
At the end of 2024, Trump’s press battles are listed as they stand today.  ,
ABC News and George Stephanopoulos
In March, Trump sued ABC News and its family firm, Disney, for comment ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos made.  ,
In a television interview, Stephanopoulos asserted repeatedly that Trump had been “found answerable for assault” in the E. Jean Carroll legal situation. While Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in the case, a judge last year determined that Trump romantically abused Carroll, which was enough evidence to keep him guilty for battery. However, the judge was unable to prove that Carroll had raped her, despite the judge’s after acknowledging that the state’s strict legal definition of rape.
Trump sued Stephanopoulos for “actual malice,” which is a really high standard that people figures must meet to demonstrate they were actually defamed, one year after their report. In July, the provincial judge overseeing the case in Florida, Cecilia M. Altonaga, denied ABC News’s motion to dismiss the match.
” A fair jury could perceive Stephanopoulos’s remarks as defamatory”, Judge Altonaga wrote, adding in bold for attention. A judge, or courts, had found plaintiff answerable for rape ten times, Stephanopoulos claimed.
Although the case never made it to trial, following Trump’s win in the 2024 election, ABC News and Disney settled the lawsuit, agreeing to donate$ 15 million to Trump’s future presidential foundation and museum and paying Trump an additional$ 1 million in legal fees. They also had to give an explanation.
According to a New York Times record of Disney’s explanation for the colony, Disney executives were worried that the judge in Florida, a condition which Trump then calls home and voted for him by 13 points this election, would part with Trump.  ,
Disney’s legal team “ultimately decided that settling, even with the obvious adverse headlines, was the best results — that$ 16 million was a small price to pay for resolving a tough situation”, the report says.
CBS News 60 Minutes
As per the news agency’s record, both Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump were invited to appear on CBS News ‘ 60 Minutes. Both parties had agreed, but CBS News announced that Trump resisted after his strategy team learned that the sector may have a fact-checking part. Trump’s plan disputed that as the justification and has since changed the response to why he did not appear on the program.
Harris also appeared on the program. Trump then sued CBS News, alleging the business engaged in “deceitful processing” of Harris’s system. According to Trump’s complaint, CBS News disputed that the decision was made to consciously mislead the public.
” To paper over Kamala’s ‘ word salad ‘ weakness, CBS used its regional platform on 60 Minutes to cross the line from the exercise of wisdom in reporting to unscrupulous, dishonest manipulation of reports”, the lawsuit states.
” Former President Trump’s repeated says against 60 Minutes are false”, a statement from the system said. ” The Interview was no doctored”.
According to a different statement from CBS News, the two videos in question were edited separately because some segment allowed for a longer response from Harris.
” Similar issue. Similar solution. But a distinct part of the answer”, a statement from 60 Minutes said. ” When we change any meeting, whether a politician, an athlete, or film sun, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The part of her truth on 60 Minutes was more precise, which allows time for other topics in a broad ranging 21-minute-long section”.
Trump is alleged to be requesting a jury trial and at least$ 10 billion in damages from the lawsuit.
NBC’s Saturday Night Live
Toward the end of the 2024 campaign season, Harris made a surprise appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Trump has long feuded with the comedy program, calling it” Dem commercials” in the past.  ,
According to Federal Communications Commission guidelines, NBC is a cable news company and is subject to equal-time protection. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, a Trump-appointed senior Republican, raised concerns on social media about Harris’s appearance, calling it” a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule”.
According to FCC guidelines, the Trump campaign requested that he be given equal time, and NBC complied. In their filing, NBC said Harris appeared “without charge” on the program for one minute and 30 seconds.
After the broadcast of a NASCAR playoff race and during a post-game showdown between the Minnesota Vikings and the Indianapolis Colts, Trump received two free 60-second messages.
Ann Selzer’s poll and the Des Moines Register
In December, Trump sued former Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and a local Gannett-owned newspaper, the Des Moines Register, over a poll the paper released in the days before the election. Harris was three points ahead of Trump in the ruby-red state, with some Democrats using that as a springboard for high hopes going into election night.  ,
Iowa, the once swing state that voted for President Barack Obama twice, wound up going for Trump by 14 points. Trump’s lawsuit alleges that the outlet and pollster are deceptive and have broken Iowa’s consumer fraud laws.  ,
” Selzer’s polling’ miss’ was not an astonishing coincidence — it was intentional”, the complaint states.  ,
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Trump wants an order to require the defendants to disclose information they used to compile the poll, along with an unspecified sum of money.  ,
Left-wing pollsters have attempted to influence electoral outcomes for too long using manipulated polls with unacceptable error rates and are not grounded in widely accepted polling methods, according to the lawsuit.  ,  ,
