SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly recently talked about MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s purported “exclusive first interview” with E. Jean Carroll that fell apart, and complained Maddow gets paid $30 million “for one show a week!” via Mediaite.
MSNBC sent out a press release announcing the interview and it came shortly after former President Donald Trump was hit with a bombshell $83.3 million judgment for defaming Carroll while he was president.
“On Monday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will sit down with E. Jean Carroll for her first interview since a jury ordered former President Donald Trump to pay over $83 million in damages for defaming Carroll,” the network announced.
But as it turned out, Carroll and her team did a mess of interviews before that, and on an episode of Sirius XM’s The Megyn Kelly Show this week, Kelly celebrated.
In a segment with Glenn Greenwald, Kelly taunted Maddow over the non-exclusive exclusive, trashed the quality of her last interview with Carroll and Kaplan, and accused her of lying during Trump’s entire term in office:
MEGYN KELLY: Just as a refresher, here’s Rachel Maddow back in May of 2023 with E. Jean Carroll. Again. And by the way, Maddow was billing her interview with E. Jean Carroll, which happens tonight as an exclusive and as E. Jean Carroll’s very first sit down, post-verdict award. E. Jean Carroll was all over the news.
Sorry, Rachel, it didn’t work out! I love it! I’m sorry, but I love it. This woman, Rachel Maddow, is getting paid $30 million a year for one show a week!
And this is the kind of journalism we get during that one hour of work she does. Watch this from May.
RACHEL MADDOW: E. Jean Carroll and her lawyer, Robbie Kaplan, have proven in a court of law that Trump cannot tell lies with impunity. They have done that for this degree.
E. JEAN CARROLL: I just want to stand up and give you a standing ovation.
RACHEL MADDOW: Did things go the way that you thought they would work?
E. JEAN CARROLL: I wasn’t doing it for myself. I was doing it for the women in the country.
RACHEL MADDOW: But, Robbie, you, you have sued this former president a lot. And I wonder how that’s changed your life.
ROBBIE KAPLAN: Oh, he doesn’t like me very much, that’s for sure.
RACHEL MADDOW: I’m sorry to put it in these terms, because I feel like I’m a little, like casting a movie about it or something, but you saying that it’s a disadvantage that he lives so much. I feel like the first time I’ve heard that in seven years, the ability to lie without shame and without any sort of tell, without any sort of remorse about it whatsoever, and about even the most important things, has always seemed like a political superpower to him. You’ve turned it into the opposite.
MEGYN KELLY: No self-awareness, the ability to lie with impunity without any tell. It’s a superpower. Yes. And you have it, madam! You exercised it for four years while he was in the White House!
