(Daily Mail) The celebrations continued for E Jean Carroll as MSNBC’s Molly Jong-Fast threw a celebrity party in her honor after her whopping $83.3 million defamation victory over Donald Trump.
The former Elle columnist was hailed as an ‘icon’ by a host of media power brokers at the exclusive Flower Shop bar in New York’s Lower-East Side.
Jong-Fast’s MSNBC colleague Lawrence O’Donnell was among those paying tribute alongside former Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein, New York Times opinion writer Lydia Polgreen and Sarah Ellison of the Washington Post.
‘She seemed delighted and vindicated. She was in awe and victorious,’ one guest reported.
‘She looked like a hero. It’s great to see women winning the day,’ added another.
E. Jean Carroll seen here leaving court with her lawyers is still celebrating after Friday’s $83.3 million defamation award against Donald Trump
MSNBC stalwarts Lawrence O’Donnell and Molly Jong-Fast helped Jean Carroll celebrate at a party in New York’s Flower Shop bar on Tuesday
The former president has begun recruiting new lawyers and insisted he will appeal against Friday’s award which he branded ‘absolutely ridiculous’
Jean Carroll, 80, has pledged to spend the money on whatever ‘Donald Trump hates’, but it came as the former president began interviewing lawyers to take on his appeal.
The head-spinning sum was more than three times what her own lawyers had asked for after a jury in a Manhattan courthouse agreed that Trump had defamed her by denying he sexually assaulted her in 1996.
As he headed off for the party O’Donnell claimed that Trump could be ‘on his way to bankruptcy’, with further civil suits over January 6 and his New York fraud trial potentially costing him $1 billion.
‘That could be the smallest debt Donald Trump owes, and just the beginning of Donald Trump’s collapse into bankruptcy,’ he told viewers.
Jong-Fast‘s appointment as a MSNBC Political Analyst was confirmed yesterday. The daughter of famed feminist author Erica Jong, she helped introduce Jean Carroll to her legal team and described the award as ‘gratifying’, claiming the former president should have been ‘kicked back into the gutters of reality television’ rather than winning the White House.
Jean Carroll told ABC’s Good Morning America on Sunday that she plans to spend the money on ‘something Donald Trump hates’.
‘If it’ll cause him pain for me to give money to certain things, that’s my intent,’ she added suggesting she would create a ‘fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump’.
Lydia Polgreen of the New York Times and former Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein were among the guests
Former ABC White House correspondent Tara Palmeri was also among the guests
