Late night time host Stephen Colbert stated ABC Information’ settlement with President-elect Donald Trump was “stupid,” on Wednesday night time, after criticizing the president-elect’s determination to sue former Iowa polster Ann Selzer.
“Why is this stupid thing stupidly happening? My guess, because of the stupid, stupid thing ABC did. See, this weekend, ABC News agreed to pay $15 million and issued an apology to settle a defamation lawsuit,” Colbert stated.
ABC Information agreed to pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a Trump presidential basis in addition to concern an apology to the president-elect.
“If the president thinks he can bully the media into never saying anything bad about him, well, what else is going on?” Colbert stated, altering the topic.
Late night time host Stephen Colbert known as out ABC Information on Wednesday for his or her settlement with Donald Trump. (Screenshot/CBS)
Shortly after he settled with ABC Information, Trump additionally sued Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register over the Iowa ballot that discovered Vice President Kamala Harris main Trump by three factors in a traditionally purple state.
“So now it’s interference just to get a prediction wrong? Well, in that case, Punxatawney Phil, you better lawyer up, buttercup, if you ever want to see your shadow again,” Colbert joked concerning the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed Monday night time in Polk County, Iowa below the Iowa Client Fraud Act and associated provisions. It says it seeks “accountability for brazen election interference committed by” the Des Moines Register (DMR) and Selzer “in favor of now-defeated former Democrat candidate Kamala Harris by way of use of a leaked and manipulated Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Ballot carried out by Selzer and S&C and revealed by DMR and Gannett within the Des Moines Register on Nov. 2, 2024.”
Trump ended up beating Harris in Iowa by 13 share factors. Selzer’s ballot was puffed up by the media forward of the election, as her polling predictions in earlier elections have been traditionally correct.
President-elect Donald Trump is suing Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register over the Iowa ballot that discovered Vice President Kamala Harris main Trump by three factors in a traditionally purple state. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
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Selzer hit again at criticisms of her and the ballot throughout a latest interview, however conceded she nonetheless did not know the place she went unsuitable.
“I’m not here to break any news. If you were hoping that I had landed on exactly why things went wrong, I have not. It does sort of awaken me in the middle of the night and I think, well maybe I should check this, this is something that would be very odd if it were to happen. But we’ve explored everything. The Des Moines Register, in an unprecedented move for transparency, has put online our cross tabs, our waiting system and my analysis and that I’ve not needed to update because it was pretty complete. We don’t know. Do I wish I knew? Yes, I wish I knew,” she stated.
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Selzer continued, “I am mystified about what the motivation anybody thinks I had and would act on in such a public poll. I don’t understand it. And the allegations I take very seriously. They’re saying that this was election interference, which is a crime. So, the idea that I intentionally set up to deliver this response, when I’ve never done that before, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to do it, it’s not my ethic.”
