Joy Reid Frets That Trump Getting Shot Will Let Him ‘Rewrite_Himself_As_Both_A_Hero_And_A_Victim’

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 “rewrite himself as a victim.” 
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	— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 15, 2024

“The universal kind of reaction that I am getting, whether from civilians or 
you know professionals, is really a deep concern and lack of confidence in — 
not us at this table or us at MSNBC, but us as the media write large — and 
fear that what’s going to happen now … is that the media will acquiesce to 
trying to convince people that the thing they’ve been experiencing you know 
for the last five, six years didn’t happen,” Reid explained. “That the 
greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence, really you know since 
anyone can remember, since George Wallace, I think, you know that we just 
haven’t experienced this kind of open you know sort of citing, or incitement 
of violence or sort of luxuriating in the idea of violence.”

Reid then claimed that people were expressing concern that media would not 
“be the guardians of memory” and would “allow Donald Trump, as he’s you know 
bathed in the glory and grandeur of his party to rewrite himself as both a 
hero and a victim that people who are the most vulnerable to not just the 
things he’s done but the things he’s promising to do, and that that will 
happen without a guardian saying wait, stop, and then the media will 
acquiesce to this rewrite.”

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