Joy Reid Frets Trump Will Be Able to ‘Rewrite Himself’ as a Victim After Assassination Attempt

MSNBC’s Joy Reid is fretting that former President Donald Trump will be able to recast himself as a victim after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt.

Reid spoke about the “universal” reaction she has been hearing after the attempt on Trump’s life and a “deep concern” about how it could impact the 2024 race.

“The universal reaction that I’m getting, whether it’s 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 writ large,” the MSNBC host said.

She continued, “And a fear that what’s going to happen now is that the Republican Party will do what they do. They’re in the middle of a campaign, you know, the convention started today, but the media will acquiesce to trying to convince people that the things they’ve been experiencing for the last five, six years didn’t happen.”

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Reid went on:

“That the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence, really, since anyone can remember, since George Wallace, I think, that we just haven’t experienced that kind of open, you know, sort of citing or sort of incitement of violence or sort of luxuriating in the idea of violence. It’s just not something we’re used to anymore in American 🏛️Politics. And then we had to get used to that being a thing.”

Finally, she said, “And people are concerned and expressing concern that we won’t be the guardians of memory and that we will allow Donald Trump