MSNBC's Joy Reid to face libel suit after smearing Trump supporter on Twitter

MSNBC host, Joy Reid, has a 2019 defamation case revived against her on Wednesday. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York mistakenly dismissed a suit by Roslyn La Liberte against the Reid last fall.

La Liberte, a Donald Trump supporter, filed the suit in 2019 over defamation claims against Reid, after the host posted misleading comments [aka lies] about the woman along with a photo of her and a young boy.

The photo along with Reid's comments were shared millions of times on Twitter. 

Reid attributed the notion that La Liberte, who appeared in a MAGA hat, was yelling at the Latino boy. In another post, Reid juxtaposed the image of La Liberte with a 1957 image of a white woman in Little Rock screaming angrily at a Black child trying to go to school. 

It was this last action that caused the court to reconsider, arguing that Reid is liable for what she insinuated on social media.

Last week MSNBC announced that the racist Reid would be hosting her own primetime show, "The ReidOut." This would make Reid one of the first black, homophobic, racist women to host a primetime show, and the first for the network.

The slot was formerly held by Hardball host Chris Matthews, who allegedly left the leftist network in early March after a number of inappropriate comments he made over the years, many having to do with women.

But Reid has her own history of controversy, and since she is black and therefore considered a member of the victim group, she has gotten away with it. In 2018, the overt homophobe passionately apologized to her far left viewers after a blog post floated to the surface like you know what in a pool. The post contained homophobic comments that included claims that Charles Crist, the former Florida governor, was a closeted gay man, and that Ann Coulter, a conservative at that time, looked like a man.

The ruling on Wednesday overturned the lower court dismissal which stated that La Liberte is a limited purpose public figure, something that would require a higher threshold to prove defamation. In other words, she just wasn't important enough to be defamed since, unlike Reid, she had none.

“Accordingly, she was not required to allege that Reid acted with actual malice as to either post,” the three-judge panel wrote this week. “Moreover, the court erred by characterizing Reid’s second post as nonactionable opinion … That post could be interpreted as accusing La Liberte of engaging in specific racist conduct, which is a provable assertion of fact and therefore actionable.”

The appellate court also ruled that the case could not be dismissed under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, a law that gives an individual the ability to file a motion to strike to dismiss a complaint brought against them for engaging in protected speech. The judges determined that the statue was “inapplicable” in federal court because “it increases a plaintiff’s burden to overcome pretrial dismissal.”

The appellate court agreed with another aspect of the district judge’s ruling — that Reid is not protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The act provides immunity to sites for content posted by third parties.

“To the contrary, she is the sole author of both allegedly defamatory posts,” the judges wrote. 

Reid and her spokespeople had nothing to say.

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