MSNBC Hosts May Be Called To Testify In Major Defamation Lawsuit

Some of MSNBC’s top hosts may have to appear in court to testify about their alleged role in defaming a Georgia-based OB-GYN physician.

The lawsuit claims that hosts Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Chris Hayes made “verifiably false” claims saying that a Georgia doctor performed hysterectomies that were not necessary at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement center during the first Trump administration, Fox News

 

Obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Mahendra Amin was accused by a whistleblower nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center, where he provided medical care, of performing unneeded surgeries.

NBC News published the report even though its standards department had reservations about the veracity of the claims. Nevertheless, far-left MSNBC covered it heavily with a series of reports calling the doctor the “uterus collector” on September 15, 2020.

The doctor filed a lawsuit against the parent company of MSNBC, NBCUniversal, in which he accused the network of falsely portraying him as “an abusive, unethical, and dishonest physician who treated and operated on immigrant women in an abusive fashion, without consent, and motivated by profit instead of quality healthcare.”

 

“NBC investigated the whistleblower letter’s accusations; that investigation did not corroborate the accusations and even undermined some; NBC republished the letter’s accusations anyway,” U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the Southern District of Georgia said in a decision last year in which she said that a jury could reasonably find actual malice.

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