Sorry Not Sorry! 8 Times Joy Reid Unapologetically Dragged Donald Trump On MSNBC - Page 2

1. Joy Reid Discusses Trump’s Response To A 2017 White Supremacist Rally

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A white supremacist rally took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, which included neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Violence broke out and the event turned deadly when a vehicle plowed through a group of counter protestors. People flung into the air and the crash resulted in the death of three people and with 35 others injured. 

Trump’s initial response was to call out the wrongdoings of all groups. He said, “I think there’s blame on both sides. You had a group on one side that was bad and you had the group on the other side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say that but I’ll say it right now.” 

In response, Reid criticized Trump and his team’s shortage of holding the right more accountable on her show AM Joy. “I think that this White House would have no problem calling this terrorism if it had been a Muslim driving a car into a group of people. Or a Black person somebody that associated with Black Lives Matter they would immediately call it terrorism instantly. So I think that would have been a slow pitch over a home plate. But I think you have to realize when you look at Donald Trump responding to the incidents in Charlottesville, what was he doing? Reading. He was reading a response. You have to ask yourself, well who was writing what he was reading.” 

Reid pointed out that in Trump’s government people like Steven Miller and Michael Anton were there. Miller is now Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy & Homeland Security Advisor for the White House. However, in Trump’s first campaign and administration in 2016, he was the 45th president’s speechwriter and his senior adviser for policy. Anton also joined Trump in his first term but was a Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communication on the National Security Council Staff at the White House. Now, he has become the 33rd Director of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff. 

“So the problem is he’s reading what they’re writing,” Reid said.