MSNBC’s post-guilty verdict coverage of the Trump business records trial in New York is proceeding exactly as one might expect it would: with an exuberance that often peeks out from under a veneer of seriousness and gravity. At least for most of their hosts.
Joy Reid, on the other hand, chose tonight to go full Joy Reid. Over the course of a single rant, Reid suggests that two Black Members of Congress sold out for being critical of the verdict, and admitted- nay, CELEBRATED New York’s partisan prosecution of Former President Trump (click “expand” to view transcript):
JEN PSAKI: I mean, the other factor here is what allows him to create the ecosystem and it is the enablers in the ecosystem, right?
ALEX WAGNER: Yeah.
PSAKI: And we’ll see and be monitoring and be sharing with people what people are saying. But just- we pulled earlier today, even…
