MSNBC analyst and weekend host Katie Phang was a guest on Wednesday’s edition of the network’s Deadline White House. Phang revealed that “I am friends with E. Jean Carroll, but it doesn’t color my legal analysis.” Of course not!
But Phang had the chutzpah to claim that Carroll—the woman who won a $5 million judgment from Donald Trump in her first defamation suit against him, and is sure to win much more in a second suit—“would have been happy to just get her day in court.”
Okay then! We’ll look forward to E. Jean Carroll announcing the charity of her choice to which she will be donating all the jury awards!
Recall that Carroll first made these allegations in New York magazine to kick off sales of a memoir. But MSNBC pulled up a clip of Carroll telling Rachel Maddow, “I really wasn’t doing it for myself. I was doing it for the women in the country.”…
