Joy Reid Back in Hot Water After Appeals Court Revives Trump Supporter’s Defamation Suit

MSNBC host Joy Reid was recently been promoted to take over the weeknight time slot that has been vacant since Chris Matthews abruptly retired in March, but she now finds herself back in legal trouble after an appeals court reportedly revived a libel suit against her that had been filed two years ago by a Trump supporter.

It all started two years go this July when a left-wing activist, Alan Vargas, posted a photo to social media of Trump supporter Roslyn La Liberte, debating another teen activist over the state’s sanctuary state law:

Reid shared the photo, which Vargas captioned by saying, “‘You are going to be the first deported’ ‘dirty Mexican’ Were some of the things they yelled they yelled at this 14 year old boy. He was defending immigrants at a rally and was shouted down. Spread this far and wide this woman needs to be put on blast.”

It was all a lie and so following the incident, La Liberte filed suit. However, that suit was struck down last year. A district court judge claimed that there was no proof that Reid made her charges out of malice and he dismissed La Liberte’s charges.

But, Joseph Luevanos, the 14-year-old boy said that the conversation was very cordial and in no way was La Liberte being a racist which prompted the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the decision of the district court judge.

Reid has issued an apology but La Liberte was not satisfied as it was delayed, as well as the removal of the post from when they first notified her of the false information.

It appears I got this wrong. My apologies to Mrs. La Liberte and Joseph. https://t.co/J8vZsCwAvs

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 2, 2018