MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski actually did her job as a so-called journalist to correct New York University professor Scott Galloway when he referred to President-elect Donald Trump as a “rapist” during a segment on the Wednesday morning edition of the “Morning Joe.” Could this be fruit coming to bear from the meeting she and her hubby/co-host Joe Scarborough had with Trump not long after he won the election? Me thinks so.
During the segment, Galloway accused Trump of being a “rapist” because of a jury ruling that he is liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll, a former columnist for Elle Magazine, in a court case from 2023. The jurors in that case handed Carroll $83.3 million in damages, which includes $65 million in punitive damages along with $18.3 million in compensatory damages. Guess being a liar is a pretty sweet paying gig.
Following Galloway’s segment, Brzezinski immediately clarified that Trump had not been found liable of rape, but that his liability was officially called “sexual abuse.”
“They are targeting the wealthy,” Galloway went on to say during the segment. “We are in the midst of a series of small revolutions to correct income inequality. And the reason we put an insurrectionist and a rapist in office is because for the first time in our nation’s history, a 30 year old man or woman isn’t doing as well as his or his or her parents were at thirty. Why? Because the majority of households are having the oxygen sucked out of the room such that a small number of individuals and a small number of companies can be worth more than nation states. Income inequality is out of control. Our tax policy has gone full oligarch.”
“Great conversation,” Brzezinski said after Galloway’s appearance. “I want to make a comment though just about a word that was used in this interview. Donald Trump was tried civilly and was found liable of sexual abuse, not rape. But the judge in the case likened his actions to rape, but the liability was officially called sexual abuse.”
Trump sued longtime ABC News host George Stephanopoulos in March for stating that two juries found the now-president-elect “liable for rape” during a March 10 segment on “This Week.” ABC News and Stephanopoulos agreed in a Dec. 14 settlement to pay Trump $15 million by Dec. 24, 2024, as a “charitable contribution” towards a future “[p]residential foundation and museum,” while both defendants were ordered to pay $1 million in attorney’s fees to the president-elect’s counsel.
The U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida ordered the network to add an editor’s note to a March 10, 2024 article stating, “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with [Republican South Carolina] Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024.”
Take a wild guess who basically referred to every single member of Trump’s cabinet as having sexual misconduct allegations against them? If you said Whoopi Goldberg, the lead harpie on “The View,” you’d be correct. What a swell old gal, that Whoopi.