MSNBC has never been one to gush over Donald Trump. But the least they can do is support him when he comes under fire.
Instead, Joy Reid made a gross comment about the attack on Trump’s life that will leave you fuming.
MSNBC host Joy Reid stirred controversy Monday by implying former President Trump faced the “consequences” of “promoting” violence during a discussion about the recent assassination attempt against him.
Reid, speaking from MSNBC’s live coverage in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, made the contentious statement after Rachel Maddow expressed hopes for a new level of “sobriety” around political violence, calling it “no freaking joke” and something “nobody should play with, ever.”
Maddow hinted that Trump might be experiencing the repercussions of his actions.
“Violence, among everything else, is very unpredictable. Once it’s part of your political system, you never know which direction it’s going to go,” Maddow said.
“Nobody can harness it in one direction only, it doesn’t work that way.”
Reid eagerly agreed and recounted the “one time” she felt afraid on the job, at the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, where armed men were “pacing” near her booth in a “menacing” manner to “send a message.”
She compared her experience to reports of voter intimidation in the 2022 midterms involving armed members of Clean Elections USA who were ordered to stay at least 250 feet away from certain polling locations in Arizona due to complaints of intimidation.
“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 said. “‘If you don’t vote the right way, I’m here with this gun.’”
“The idea of political violence that we’ve been nursing really since then is so dangerous,” she continued.
“It’s so dangerous that you cannot avoid the consequences of it, even if you’re one of the people promoting it.”
Reid faced backlash on social media for seemingly portraying the assassination attempt on Trump as a “what goes around comes around” situation.
Her remarks are particularly startling given MSNBC’s decision to bench its anti-Trump show “Morning Joe” following the assassination attempt.
A source told CNN the show was replaced with live programming to avoid any potentially inappropriate comments that could backfire on the network.
This decision left many political observers, especially conservatives, questioning MSNBC’s confidence in one of its flagship programs to handle the situation appropriately.
An MSNBC spokesperson strongly denied the CNN report.
Trump was injured in the ear by a bullet at his Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. The shooter killed one attendee and critically wounded two others before being fatally shot by law enforcement.
Trump appeared at the GOP convention Monday with a visible bandage on his right ear.
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