Late evening host Stephen Colbert mentioned ABC Information’ settlement with President-elect Donald Trump was “silly,” on Wednesday evening, after criticizing the president-elect’s determination to sue former Iowa polster Ann Selzer.
“Why is that this silly factor stupidly taking place? My guess, due to the silly, silly factor ABC did. See, this weekend, ABC Information agreed to pay $15 million and issued an apology to settle a defamation lawsuit,” Colbert mentioned.Â
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 by no means saying something dangerous about him, properly, what else is occurring?” Colbert mentioned, altering the topic.Â
Late evening host Stephen Colbert referred to as out ABC Information on Wednesday for his or her settlement with Donald Trump. (Screenshot/CBS)
IOWA POLLSTER ANN SELZER SUGGESTS HER DATA COULD HAVE GALVANIZED REPUBLICAN VOTERS INTO PROVING IT WRONG
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.Â
“So now it’s interference simply to get a prediction fallacious? Properly, in that case, Punxatawney Phil, you higher lawyer up, buttercup, should you ever need to see your shadow once more,” Colbert joked in regards to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed Monday evening in Polk County, Iowa below the Iowa Shopper Fraud Act and associated provisions. It says it seeks “accountability for brazen election interference dedicated by” the Des Moines Register (DMR) and Selzer “in favor of now-defeated former Democrat candidate Kamala Harris by use of a leaked and manipulated Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Ballot performed by Selzer and S&C and printed 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 overrated by the media forward of the election, as her polling predictions in earlier elections have been traditionally correct.Â
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 current interview, however conceded she nonetheless did not know the place she went fallacious.
“I am not right here to interrupt any information. In case you have been hoping that I had landed on precisely why issues went fallacious, I’ve not. It does form of awaken me in the course of the evening and I feel, properly possibly I ought to verify this, that is one thing that may be very odd if it have been to occur. However we have explored every little thing. The Des Moines Register, in an unprecedented transfer for transparency, has put on-line our cross tabs, our ready system and my evaluation and that I’ve not wanted to replace as a result of it was fairly full. We do not know. Do I want I knew? Sure, I want I knew,” she mentioned.
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Selzer continued, “I’m mystified about what the motivation anyone thinks I had and would act on in such a public ballot. I do not perceive it. And the allegations I take very significantly. They’re saying that this was election interference, which is a criminal offense. So, the concept I deliberately set as much as ship this response, after I’ve by no means finished that earlier than, I’ve had loads of alternatives to do it, it is not my ethic.”
