Infuriating: MSNBC’s Joy Reid Seems To Blame Trump For Assassination Attempt Against Him

It didn’t take long for the crass far-left partisan personalities on MSNBC to engage in the type of “victim-blaming” they pretend to abhor when it applies to anyone other than Donald Trump.

Just days after a would-be assassin tried to kill Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania, Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow were covering the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin.

Much of their discussion hinged on Saturday’s shooting, including a particularly offensive exchange, as reported by the New York Post:

MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested on-air Monday that former President Trump bore the “consequences” of “promoting” violence during a discussion about the assassination attempt over the weekend.

Reid, who joined MSNBC’s live coverage in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, made the comment after Rachel Maddow said she hopes a level of “sobriety” will emerge surrounding political violence, calling it “no freaking joke” and “nothing that anybody should play with, ever.” She, too, seemed to imply Trump reaped the whirlwind.

“Violence, among everything else, is very unpredictable. Once it’s part of your political system, you never know which direction it’s going to go,” Maddow said. “Nobody can harness it in one direction only, it doesn’t work that way.”

Their on-air rhetoric sparked significant social media backlash:

Joy Reid basically suggests that the attempt on Trump was a what-goes-around-comes-around situation:
"So the idea of political violence that we have been nursing…It's so dangerous that you cannot avoid the consequences of it even if you're one of the people promoting it." pic.twitter.com/kf2soTy6aF

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 15, 2024

Gaslighting at its finest. This is how insane these people are.

Joy Reid says Trump shouldn’t be allowed to play the victim after GETTING SHOT. pic.twitter.com/OTsrCVl5T2

— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) July 16, 2024

Reid’s frequent and virulent anti-Trump tirades have also been cited by some critics as a possible motivating factor behind the assassination attempt.

Joy Reid recently compared Trump to Hitler, as she normally does, in an unhinged rant posted to social media.

The comparisons to Hitler play a role in radicalizing people to the point of wanting to assassinate Trump.

Joy Reid should be FIRED by MSNBC.
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— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) July 15, 2024

Without a hint of irony, Reid used the same segment to portray herself as the victim of alleged intimidation by Trump supporters nearly a decade ago.

As Fox News reported:

Reid agreed and proceeded to relay the “one time” in her career that she felt afraid on the job, at the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, when armed men were “pacing” near her booth in a “menacing” manner to “send a message.”

She likened her experience to reports of voter intimidation in the 2022 midterms where a group of armed members of Clean Elections USA were ordered to stay at least 250 feet away from certain polling locations in Arizona, after complaints that people carrying guns and wearing masks were intimidating voters.

“I think about the people who tried to vote in Arizona when men with long guns were standing outside of the polling places to send them a message,” Reid said. “‘If you don’t vote the right way, I’m here with this gun.'”

Here’s a full clip of the tirade: