Chris Hayes Applauds E. Jean Carroll’s ‘Incredible Act of Real Persistence’ After Trump Verdict (Video)

E. Jean Carroll, the writer who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation civil lawsuit against Donald Trump earlier this month in Manhattan, is seeking what her lawyers call a “very substantial” additional amount in the wake of insulting comments the former president made during a May 10 CNN town hall.

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her lawsuit against Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll and her attorney, Robbie Kaplan, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” to talk about that case. But of course Maddow brought up a related matter: CNN’s ill-advised, poorly received Trump town hall.At one point, Maddow asked Kaplan and Carroll a question that critics of the town hall have asked since it aired — could the disparaging comments Trump made about Carroll during the event get him sued again? According to Kaplan, “definitely.”You’ll recall that during the town hall, Trump repeatedly defamed Carroll.

sexual abuse and defamation against E. Jean Carroll. “The problem for them is that no matter how hard they try to spin themselves as the party of family values to create fake controversies, that’s hard to do with a straight face given the de facto leader of their party has now been branded a sexual abuser,” Psaki said on Sunday’s “Inside” on MSNBC.She specifically sniped prominent Republican figures like senators Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio for hypocritical statements made in their former president’s defense.

told Geist on “Sunday Today.” “He’s gonna say, ‘Hey, we’re gonna keep losing.’ Well, Donald Trump has convinced his supporters they haven’t been losing, they’ve been winning —  ‘the deep state and Democrats and the media have been in cahoots to sort of rig it against them’ — that’s the problem here.”“What I noticed this week is the just sheer paralysis that Republican elected officials have when it comes to dealing with Trump,” the “Meet the Press” moderator continued, pointing to Tuesday’s verdict that found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll.With the town hall taking place just one day after the decision was revealed, Trump used the platform to continue to defame and shame the writer as his derogatory comments were met with laughter from the GOP-leaning live audience.“So here he is convicted by a jury of defamation about a sexual assault and it was crickets from his party,” Todd said, noting that even former VP Mike Pence — someone who Todd says has built his political career on the idea of “wearing your morality on your sleeve” — refused to take a stand on the topic, instead saying that only the media was interested in the verdict.“I don’t think they have figured out how to take him on yet, and that’s Ron DeSantis as well,” Todd concluded.“I don’t think they have figured out how to take him on yet.” – @ChuckTodd on how other 2024 Republican candidates will challenge former President Trump.

founding partner and senior correspondent at Puck, tweeted that Darcy and his editor had been “summoned” to a meeting with Licht and “top executives in which they told him that his coverage of Trump town hall had been too emotional and stressed the importance of remaining dispassionate.”SCOOP @PuckNews: CNN's Chris Licht summoned @OliverDarcy and his editor to a meeting with himself and top executives in which they told him that his coverage of Trump town hall had been too emotional and stressed the importance of remaining dispassionate: https://t.co/R0dgcOmgGaStrongly contradicting his own network’s full-throated defense of the event, Darcy slammed the town hall as a “spectacle of lies” that, he implied, did harm to the country.“It’s hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening,” Darcy said in an installment of his Reliable Sources newsletter, which came just 15 minutes after CNN released a statement essentially bragging about the event.“Trump lied about the 2020 election. He took no responsibility for the January 6 insurrection that those very lies incited.

the pile of people who believe the the Donald Trump town hall CNN aired on Wednesday was a disastrous mistake. On Thursday’s episode of “All-In,” Hayes laid out in great detail why he thinks it was such a bad idea for CNN to give the disgraced ex-president such a prominent platform.

@acyn on Twitter).“About last night: the 70 minutes I spent on stage in New Hampshire with former President Donald Trump was a major inflection point in the Republican party’s search for its nominee, and potentially the starting line for America’s next presidential race,” Collins said.“It’s important to remember that he is, right now, the GOP front-runner, that he running, as noted, while being criminally indicted, found civilly liable and under investigation for everything from his handling of classified documents to his business empire.”Collins’ comments come as CNN remains at the center of a heavy backlash over the Trump town hall. That backlash is complex, but the unifying point is that it was an irresponsible mistake at every level.

A source is shedding light on Melania Trump‘s relationship with Donald Trump after he was found liable of battery and defamation.

Well, this was a predictably horrible idea.

CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump beat the cable news competition, as expected, with an average of 3.12 million viewers, according to early Nielsen numbers.

his Reliable Sources newsletter, which came just 15 minutes after CNN released a statement essentially bragging about the event.Darcy began with a description of Trump’s behavior and his interactions with the town hall’s moderator, Kaitlan Collins. Collins, Darcy said, was “tough and knowledgeble,” [sic] and “fact-checked Trump throughout.” The problem, Darcy argued, was that this was meaningless in response to someone like the disgraced former president.“A professional lie machine, Trump fired off falsehoods at a rapid clip,” Darcy wrote, “while using his bluster to overwhelm Collins, stealing command of the stage at some points of the town hall.”“Trump lied about the 2020 election.

found Trump guilty of sexually battering Carroll in an incident that happened in the 1990s, and of defaming her when she came forward to report the attack. He has been ordered to pay her a total of $5 million on both counts.While discussing this topic, Trump was asked what he would say to people who consider this conviction a deal breaker when it comes to voting for him. He replied, “There aren’t too many of them because my poll numbers just came out.

In less than an hour, they allowed an authoritarian wannabe to lie constantly while an audience full of his followers applauded. This was not a town hall, it was a rally.Donald bragged about overturning Roe v.

found Trump guilty of sexually battering Carroll in an incident that happened in the 1990s, and of defaming her when she came forward to report the attack. He has been ordered to pay her a total of $5 million on both counts.While discussing this topic, Trump was asked what he would say to people who consider this conviction a deal breaker when it comes to voting for him. He replied, “There aren’t too many of them because my poll numbers just came out.

retweeted a tweet summarizing his comment with the caption “100% #MAGA.”Scarborough echoed journalist Peter Wehner’s tweet connecting what he said to Christianity.“This comment by Tommy Tuberville, who describes himself as ‘a man of Christian faith,’ is disturbing, even by the standards of this morally depraved era,” Wehner wrote on Twitter.Scarborough doubled down on the “morally depraved” phrasing of, asking Willie Geist if he could imagine this happening before Trump was elected president.“Can you imagine, Willie — and I know you can’t so it’s really more of a rhetorical question — pre-Trump, anybody saying that a jury of six men and three women finding someone [liable for] sexual abuse — sexually abusing a woman — would make them want to vote for that person twice,” Scarborough said. “How depraved.

liable for sexual battery and defamation, Alyssa Farah Griffin has high expectations for her political party. According to “The View” host, “every Republican” who criticized Bill Clinton for his sexual scandals should have the “same energy” for Trump.On Tuesday, a jury ruled in favor of E.

wanted to hang Mike Pence, the former VP himself is still reluctant to criticize Trump, even in the wake of a jury finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.On Tuesday, a jury ruled in favor of E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who alleged that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a department store in 1996.

, which was held in Manhattan. Writer E. Jean Carroll alleged that the politician raped her in a dressing room in 1996, and that he further defamed her in a social media post last year.

President Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation in a civil trial stemming from allegations he raped the writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.She was awarded $5 million total in damages.The case stems from allegations by the writer E.