MSNBC host Joy Reid said on Monday that she had very real concerns about the aftermath of Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump — namely that media would “acquiesce” and allow Trump to “rewrite himself” as a sympathetic victim.
Reid made the comments during a panel discussion that included fellow MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace along with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and she said people she’d talked to were afraid that media would allow Americans to forget that Trump was “the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence … since George Wallace.”
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Joy Reid fears that, after the assassination attempt on Trump, “the media will acquiesce” to Republicans and not label Trump “the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence…since George Wallace.”
She doesn’t want Trump to…
