Reid Claims That TRUMP PROMOTES VIOLENCE
Reid Says Shooting is TRUMP’S FAULT
During a Monday on-air debate on the murder attempt over the weekend, MSNBC host Joy Reid proposed that former President Trump carried the “consequences” of “promoting” violence.
Reid, who joined MSNBC’s live broadcast in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, stated after Rachel Maddow’s remark on hopes for a degree of “sobriety” around political violence, calling it “no freaking joke” and “nothing that anyone should play with, ever.” She, too, seemed to suggest that Trump experienced the spin.
“Among everything else, violence is somewhat erratic. Once ingrained in your political framework, you never know how it will turn. Nobody can harness it in one direction only; it doesn’t work that way.” Reid agreed and then went on to share the “one time” in her career that she felt terrified on the job, at the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, when armed men were “pacing” around her booth in a “menacing” manner to “send a message.”
She compared her experience to accounts of voter intimidation in the 2022 midterms, whereby a group of armed Clean Elections USA members were directed to remain at least 250 feet away from specific polling sites in Arizona following claims that persons sporting guns and masks were frightening voters.
“I think about the people who tried to vote in Arizona when men with long guns were standing outside of the polling places to send them a message,” Reid added. “‘If you neglect to vote the right way, I’m here with this gun.'” “The idea of political violence that we have been nurturing really since then is so dangerous,” she said. “You cannot avoid the consequences of it, even if you’re one of the people pushing it; it’s so dangerous.”
X’s detractors of Reid said she seemed to be characterizing the attempted assassination of Trump as a “what goes around comes around.” Reid’s remarks on MSNBC especially seem odd given the network suspended its strongly anti-Trump program “Morning Joe” following Saturday’s attempted murder. A person familiar with the decision told CNN that, partly due to concern, one of the show’s numerous attendees over a 4-hour broadcast “might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assault the program and network as a whole.” Political watchers were startled by MSNBC’s demand to get “Morning Joe” off the airwaves; several conservatives claimed it showed a lack of faith in one of their most well-known programs to gently cover a delicate topic.
An MSNBC spokesman angrily refuted the CNN allegation. On Saturday, at his Pennsylvania event, a would-be assassin’s bullet hit Trump in the ear. Before law authorities killed him, the shooter fatally injured one participant and seriously injured two more. Monday at the GOP conference, Trump showed up with a clearly bandaged right ear.
