MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski immediately corrected New York University professor Scott Galloway’s assertion that President-elect Donald Trump is a “rapist” during a Wednesday segment of “Morning Joe.”
Galloway falsely accused Trump of being a “rapist” in relation to a jury finding the now-president-elect liable for sexually assaulting and defaming former Elle Magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in a May 2023 court case. The jurors awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages in January, including $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million in compensatory damages.
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 said. “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 following 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.”
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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.”
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg also alleged without evidence that all of Trump’s cabinet picks have a “sexual misconduct allegation” during a November segment.
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