Sorry Not Sorry! 8 Times Joy Reid Unapologetically Dragged Donald Trump On MSNBC - Page 9

8. Joy Reid  Shares Thoughts On America After Trump’s Projected Win

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Last November, Reid spoke on a panel during MSNBC’s Election Night Coverage. She challenged the country to do a self-examination following Trump’s win as president for the second time. 

In her reaction to the win she said, “It is fairly shocking.”

She quickly reminded her audience of what they may be walking into with starting January 2025.

In reaction to the outcome of the election, she said, “I don’t think something that should make us super proud that despite all of the things that just we’ve seen in the last two weeks, forget, even, if you could somehow forget January 6th and an attempted coup to overthrow the country. Even if you could forget taking classified documents and hiding them in your bathroom, even if you could set aside, which is very hard to set aside, an acute adjudication of sexual abuse against a woman and then a two dozen other allegations and, you know, Jeffrey Epstein saying it was his best friend, you name it.

“You just think about just the last two weeks and the things that Donald Trump has said into, into the TV that people could hear him say and do the vulgarity in front of families with young children and the threats to do mass deportation and a violent, a start, violent start to his dictatorship on day one.” 

She added, “And you name it. If all of that gets you half of the votes, 48, 49%, what does it tell you? I mean, we need to really take a step back and think about what does that say about us?”

Reid was clear that she is standing by all that she stood up for on the show in an emotional statement

On the Feb. 23 Zoom call with the Win With Black Women podcast, she explained why she has no regrets.

“I’ve been through every emotion from, you know, anger, rage, disappointment, hurt, you know, a feeling that, you know, guilt. You know, that I let my team lose their jobs,” she said.

She said she had “gratitude” and it was “Not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me. But also that my show had value and that I’m sorry that if what I was doing had value.” 

According to her speech, she would not change “going hard on so many issues.” She addressed topics like the Black Lives Matter movement, immigration, Gaza and even critiqued the president on many occasions. 

“And where I come down on that is I’m not sorry,” she said. “I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God.”

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