Joe Scarborough trashed Donald Trump for his lawsuits against media outlets almost a month after his controversial meeting with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago.
The host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe claimed Trump’s lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over their poll that had Kamala Harris beating him in Iowa would be thrown out.
‘Ann Selzer? Ann doesn’t have to worry. The Des Moines Register? They don’t have to worry. The Trump team won’t get past summary judgment. That’ll be thrown out very quickly,’ Scarborough said Tuesday.
Trump accused the paper and Selzer of ‘brazen election interference’ by intentionally releasing the stunningly wrong poll the Saturday before Election Day.
At the time, Democrats took Harris’ three-point lead in the midwestern state as a sign that she had momentum, but Trump would go on to win it by a decisive 13.3 percentage points.
Scarborough then moved onto Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News and 60 Minutes for what he claims was their deceptively edited interview with Harris that aired a month before the election.
Scarborough laughed at Trump and argued that 60 Minutes edited their sit-down with Harris like they would with any other interviewee.
He then claimed, just like The Des Moines Register suit, that this would eventually be thrown out.
Joe Scarborough, the host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, sneered at Donald Trump on Tuesday for his growing list of lawsuits against media outlets and argued that they’d all be thrown out
Donald Trump recently won at $15 million settlement from ABC News for an interview George Stephanopoulos conducted about the E. Jean Carroll case
Trump has also threatened to sue The New York Times for a series of articles the outlet ran in the lead up to the election about Trump’s financial dealings. Scarborough said that The Times shouldn’t worry.
‘So you can make you can make the threats all you want,’ Scarborough said. ‘But at the end of the day, we still have a pretty, pretty strong First Amendment. And that ain’t going to change in the next six months.’
Morning Joe regular Willie Geist suggested that Trump may have been emboldened to sue more media outlets for defamation after his $15 million settlement with ABC News.
To prevent further litigation, ABC agreed to donate the sum to Trump’s presidential library over comments made by George Stephanopoulos about the E. Jean Carroll case.
The March 10 segment involved him interviewing Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, with Stephanopoulos pressing her on why she endorsed Trump after he was found liable of sexual abuse.
Stephanopoulos said: ‘I’m asking you a question about why you endorse someone who’s been found liable for rape.’
The congresswoman responded: ‘As a rape victim, who’s been shamed for years now because of her rape. You’re trying to shame me again.’
Scarborough said ABC likely agreed to the settlement to prevent the discovery process that could have involved journalists being ordered to hand over their phones to the court.
In this March 10 interview of Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace, George Stephanopoulos pressed her on her support of Donald Trump
Mace was raped when she was 16 years old and criticized Stephanopoulos for ‘shaming’ her for backing Trump despite the ruling in the E. Jean Carroll case
‘There were mistakes made in that interview,’ he said of the Stephanopoulos-Mace interview, ‘that allowed the process to go far enough for discovery to be opened up. Would ABC have won if they fought it to the end? There are a lot of lawyers that think they would have.’
Scarborough and his co-host and wife – Mika Brzezinski – have been spending the last several weeks defending their decision to meet with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, to discuss how they’d cover his second term.
Liberals viewed the move as an inherent capitulation to the soon-to-be president, especially after Scarborough likened Trump to a ‘fascist.’
Scarborough has rejected claims that he is afraid of Trump retaliating against him once he’s in office and has argued that the meeting was done to inform his viewers as part of job as a media personality.
