Trump's defamation case against ABC after Carroll verdict can proceed

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : As with the Carroll-related claim, the rejection of that motion to dismiss doesn't mean that Trump will ultimately prevail -- only that his case can proceed.
32% : "Defendants may very well convince a reasonable factfinder to follow Judge Kaplan's reasoning or to adopt other reasoning leading to the conclusion that Stephanopoulos's statements were not defamatory," Altonaga wrote, adding that a jury that views the segment may find sufficient context to conclude Trump wasn't defamed.
29% : The New York federal judge who presided over that case, Lewis Kaplan, downplayed the distinction when he rejected Trump's challenge to the jury's multimillion dollar award as excessive, reasoning that just because the jury declined to find that Carroll had been raped under New York law, that didn't mean she failed to prove Trump raped her "as many people commonly understand the word."
24% : Yet, she made clear that she wasn't necessarily agreeing that Trump had been defamed; rather, the judge's legal determination was that the defense didn't present a strong enough argument to dismiss Trump's case at this stage of litigation.
23% : A federal judge in Florida discussed the differences between "rape" and "sexual abuse," the latter of which Trump was found liable for in New York.
22% : This new decision stems from Stephanopoulos' March interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., in which he questioned her support for Trump despite him being "found liable for rape."
15% : After Donald Trump was found liable last year for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, the federal judge overseeing that New York case explained that the jury had essentially found that Trump had raped her, as that term is commonly understood.
9% : As a refresher, the Carroll jury found that Trump had sexually abused and defamed her, but it didn't find that Trump had raped her.
4% : In Trump's defamation suit, Altonaga distinguished Carroll's claim that Trump had raped her from Stephanopoulos' characterization of the jury verdict as having found that Trump had raped her.

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