A LEGAL ANALYST LOST HER JOB AFTER SHE CALLED ROY MOORE'S ACCUSERS LIARS ON FOX NEWS
Updated | A legal analyst appeared on Fox News last week to weigh in on the accusations against Roy Moore—and it backfired.
Mercedes Colwin, a managing partner at the law firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, told host Sean Hannity she thinks Moore's accusers, along with most other women who go public with sexual assault allegations, are liars.
Then she got demoted.
"A lot of these women, it’s all about money," Colwin said on the segment, according to Mediate. Genuine allegations of sexual assault, Colwin added, are "very few and far between."
In the aftermath of her initial comments, Colwin apologized on Twitter, stating that she hadn't intended to "trivialize or minimize the impact of sexual harassment on any victims." She went on to clarify: "I did not mean to imply, nor do I believe, that the victims of sexual assault within society are 'very few and far between.'"
But Colwin's backpedaling wasn't enough to save her job. Though Colwin is still working at the firm as a partner, she has since been relieved of her management responsibilities.
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