NBCUniversal is headed for trial after a judge ruled in favor of a Georgia doctor who MSNBC's biggest stars accused of performing "Mass hysterectomies" on women at a Trump-era immigration facility in Georgia.
The judge ruled that Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Chris Hayes made "Verifiably false" statements about the doctor, who is suing NBC for $30 million.
The lawsuit could prove embarrassing to MSNBC, which bills itself the "Premier destination" for news and "Informed perspectives." Communications obtained during the discovery process revealed that many executives and top journalists at the network had concerns about the whistleblower, but breathlessly reported her claims anyway.
On her top-rated MSNBC show, Maddow quoted a detainee as saying, "When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp." Maddow went on to say, "The nurse says she and her fellow nurses, quote, questioned among ourselves like goodness he's taking everybody's stuff out that's his specialty, he's the uterus collector He's taking all their uteruses out or he's taking their tubes out."
Amin's lawsuit reveals how MSNBC is in fact part and parcel of the broader NBC News operation.
Amin's lawsuit is the latest black eye for MSNBC, which aggressively pushed several false narratives during the Trump administration, during which the cable network generated hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for NBCUniversal and its parent company, Comcast.
In a conference call with Hayes the following day, Scholl, the MSNBC standards executive, acknowledged they still had no idea whether Wooten's claims were accurate, and whether or not Amin was a "a good doctor or a shitty doctor."
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