analysis ABC is finally fighting back against censorship and pressure from the Federal Communications Commission Published May 13, 2026 9:00AM (EDT) "The View" cohosts Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin (Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images) ABC’s entry into the media’s ongoing era of corporate capitulation under Donald Trump was not promising. In December 2024, just one day after a judge ordered both Trump and network anchor George Stephanopoulos to sit for depositions in a defamation suit legal observers widely considered frivolous, the network’s parent company Disney folded. ABC paid Trump $15 million for his presidential foundation, covered another million in his legal fees and published an editor’s note in which ABC News and Stephanopoulos declared they regretted past statements about the president-elect.…