UPDATE: Joy Reid comparing President Biden’s COVID diagnosis to former President Trump being shot in the head occurred in the 6:00 p.m. Eastern hour. At the top of the 7:00 p.m. Eastern hour, Reid was seemed to push the debunked conspiracy theory that Trump was not shot at all.
The election desperation was palpable during MSNBC’s coverage of Night Three of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. With news just breaking that President Biden was diagnosed with COVID again, co-host Joy Reid tried to suggest that if Biden recovered from the cold quickly, it should be viewed as “exactly the same” as former President Trump surviving an assassination attempt where he was shot in the head.
At first, Reid praised Biden’s diagnosis because it supposedly provided a remarkable political “opportunity” for the Biden campaign to blame Trump for…
