The trend of major media outlets—from The Washington Post to well-known MCNBC hosts—kowtowing to Trump’s bullying continues. The latest took place with ABC settling a defamation suit by Donald Trump, stemming from George Stephanopoulous’ reporting on the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit—using the exact same word (“rape”) that the judge who had overseen the case had used. To settle the case, ABC will now donate $15 mullion to Trump’s presidential library, and $1 million in legal fees.

As the Public Notice Substack explains, “Trump’s playbook here is the same as authoritarian strongman Victor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary. Orban has comprehensively attacked media outlets, filing lawsuits, and starving them of public advertising dollars unless they displayed sufficient loyalty.”