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The $15 million settlement between ABC News, George Stephanopoulos and President-elect Trump was cheered by those with basic objectivity and common sense, while the left again lost its collective mind in what has been a daily occurrence since the election on Nov. 5

The settlement was one ABC News had to strike, for the evidence against them was clear as day on video. To review, Stephanopoulos, who is billed as a news anchor but acts and sounds more like the Democratic operative and pitbull he once was in the Clinton administration, repeated on 10 occasions during a March interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., the false allegation that Trump was found liable for rape in a civil case brought by E. Jean Carroll that took place in a New York courtroom earlier this year.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS AND ABC APOLOGIZE TO TRUMP, AGREE TO PAY $15M TO SETTLE DEFAMATION CASE

Stephanopoulos also claimed Trump was found guilty of defaming Carroll. 

Two problems: That's not what the jury had found. 

"How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?" Stephanopoulos piously asked Mace on ABC's "This Week." on March 10.

ABC's George Stephanopoulos (Getty Images)

"You've endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges and two separate juries have found him........

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