MSNBC Political Analyst Molly Jong-Fast threw a swanky party, packed with liberal media figures, to celebrate writer E. Jean Carroll being awarded a staggering $83 million judgment in her defamation case against former President Donald Trump.
Carroll has already turned heads with her behavior, both before and immediately following the trial. Earlier this week, Carroll laughed through an appearance on MSNBC and appeared to joke about a lavish shopping spree and even a penthouse for host Rachel Maddow.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, New York Times opinion writer Lydia Polgreen, The Washington Post’s Sarah Ellison, former ABC News correspondent Tara Palmeri, and Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein were some of the media figures in attendance at the party, according to the Daily Mail.
Over the weekend, Carroll told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that she wants to spend the judgment money on “something Donald Trump hates.”
“If it’ll cause him pain for me to give money to certain things, that’s my intent,” she said, adding that she wants to start a “fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump.”
Conservative journalist and podcast host Megyn Kelly earlier this week took issue with the media’s positioning on the case from the very start.
“Let’s just entertain for a minute that Trump is the truth-teller, here,” Kelly said, “that Trump actually has no memory of this person, and certainly didn’t sexually assault her, and that she really is some sort of a kook who decided to make up a story about him to get her name in the headlines, to potentially get money from a deep-pocketed guy.”
She continued, “The media has zero appetite for entertaining that possibility.”
Kelly also noted that Trump was never criminally convicted for an assault against Carroll, but a civil jury decided it was more likely than not that Trump assaulted her.
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“[Carroll] couldn’t even remember when it happened,” Kelly added. “She didn’t have a police report; she didn’t have a medical report; she had nothing other than two friends who said, ‘yeah she mentioned it at the time.’”
Trump has maintained that he never assaulted Carroll and didn’t know her. Throughout the trial, he published social media posts criticizing the writer.
In one instance, he posted a viral video of Carroll speaking to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper about rape being largely viewed as a “fantasy.” Cooper looks visibly uncomfortable during the exchange and cuts to break. “Can you believe I have to defend myself against this woman’s fake story?” Trump captioned the video.
Trump shares the E Jean Carroll clip where she told Anderson Cooper that people "think rape is sexy."
Trump: "Can you believe I have to defend myself against this woman's fake story?!" pic.twitter.com/6EiRHo64YH
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 16, 2024