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Megyn Kelly slammed E. Jean Carroll after she told Rachel Maddow she would share some of her $83 million windfall from suing Donald Trump with the left-leaning MSNBC anchor.
“This is the kind of clip that could win Trump the election,” Kelly wrote on her X social media account in response to the clip.
Carroll appeared alongside two of her lawyers — Roberta Kaplan and Shawn Crowley — on Maddow’s Monday night talk show to discuss the verdict handed down in her defamation lawsuit against the former president in a Manhattan court last week.
“You’ve talked about using some of Trump’s money that you’re about to get to help shore up women’s rights. Do you know what that might be? What that might look like?” Maddow asked Carroll, who was awarded the massive payout after alleging Trump raped her in the dressing stall of a department store more than three decades ago.
“Yes, Rachel! Yes! I have such, such great ideas for all the good I’m gonna do with this money,” Carroll said, adding: “First thing, Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping.”
Carroll joked that she and Maddow were “going to get completely new wardrobes, new shoes, a motorcycle for Crowley, a new fishing rod for Robbie.”
“Rachel, what do you want? Penthouse? It’s yours, Rachel!” Carroll said.
Crowley then remarked that her client’s comment was in jest. “That’s a joke,” she said.
During the interview, Carroll likened Trump to a “walrus snorting” and a “rhino flopping his hands.”
She said she was “terrified” before the trial began, leading her to have “an actual breakdown.”
“I lost my ability to speak, I lose my words, I couldn’t talk and I couldn’t go on,” Carroll said.
But after arriving in court, Carroll said she “looked out” and Trump “was nothing.”
“He was a phantom. It was the people around him who were giving him power,” Carroll said, adding: “It was an astonishing discovery for me.”
“He’s nothing. We don’t need to be afraid of him. He can be knocked down.”
The $83 million award followed a $5 million sexual assault and defamation verdict last year from another jury in a case brought by Carroll against Trump.
Trump has said he will appeal the latest verdict.
His attorney, Alina Habba, said the verdict resulted because Trump’s opponents were suing “in states where they know they will get juries like this.”
“It will not deter us. We will keep fighting. And, I assure you, we didn’t win today, but we will win,” she said.
The trial reached its conclusion as Trump marches toward winning the Republican presidential nomination for a third consecutive time.
He has sought to turn his various trials and legal vulnerabilities into an advantage, portraying them as evidence of a weaponized political system.
In May, a different jury awarded Carroll $5 million. It found Trump not liable for rape, but responsible for sexually abusing Carroll and then defaming her by claiming she made it up. He is appealing that award, too.
Trump is also awaiting a verdict in a New York civil fraud trial, where state lawyers are seeking the return of $370 million in what they say were ill-gotten gains from loans and deals made using financial statements that exaggerated his wealth.
With Post Wires